Film Categories: Earth

  • Off Route 2

    The scene of a car accident serves as a backdrop to an exploration of trauma and the often-anticlimactic aftermath of personal tragedy. A woman hangs inverted in silence, inhabiting the space of wildlife in the forest. This is as much a performance of endurance as it is a fictional construct; the execution of the film demanded that the artist hang upside-down from a seatbelt for extended periods of time in sub-zero weather.

  • Caribou

    “Caribou” is an 11-minute science fiction experimental portrait of Saskatchewan. Structurally it is a journey from the forests of northern Saskatchewan to the Badlands in the south.

  • Lines on a Slow Decline

    “Lines on a Slow Decline” is a portrait of my neighborhood; shot within a 5-block radius on Super 8 film and full-format VHS video.

  • Dark Horse Candidate

    “Dark Horse Candidate” is a time-based project that is intended to be a portrait of one specific location over the course of one full year. One shot per day was selected in the editing process (365 shots in total), and each one appears in sequence according to the calendar year.

  • Witchcraft

    “Witchcraft” is an examination of the nostalgic, and darker implications of my family’s Super 8 “home movies.” It is an extension of an earlier work, “Down Payment on a Dead Horse,” which is rooted in a quote from Ernest Hemmingway – “All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”

  • Nightfall

    “Nightfall” is a formal portrait of the Canadian winter landscape, shot on Super 8, VHS, DVCAM, and 16mm.

  • Hot Under the Collar

    “Hot Under the Collar” is an experimental video that examines the imagery of the Kodak “Shirley” test patterns. An examination of the “male gaze,” the evolution of film and video, and obvious formal considerations constitute the foundation for “Hot Under the Collar”.

  • Down Payment on a Dead Horse

    “Down Payment on a Dead Horse” begins as a formal portrait of the Saskatchewan winter landscape, and becomes an examination of masculinity (shot on Super 8, 16mm and VHS). Here, I am focused on the inherent innocence that lies within these family images, and I am also drawn to the darker implications of them as well. In contrast, the winter landscapes are meant to be in direct opposition to the lush color, and familiar poses that have become synonymous with old Super 8 “home movies.”

  • Dead Horse Point

    “Dead Horse Point” is a film that expresses my feelings of ambivalence for the western genre, and America as a nation. It essentially deals with the notion of “the old west,” “the frontier,” the blurred line between historical fact and myth, the role of Hollywood in the historical process, the importance of celebrity in America, and finally the influence that the western landscape has had in defining the mythology of “the old west.”

  • tide goes in, the tide goes out, The

    A hand-processed, black-and-white ode to the secret world of moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita). “The tide goes in, the tide goes out” revels in the material and chemical qualities of the film medium, with the fragility of the film mirroring that of the jellyfish. Made for 30 x 30: Newly Commissioned FIlms for Thirty Years of LIFT Selected screenings: Images Festival, 2012 (Toronto, ON); Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, 2012 (Germany); Jihlava International Documentary Festival, 2012 (Czech Republic); (S8) Mostra Cinema Periférico, 2016 (Spain)