Film Categories: environment

  • 10-17-88

    Optically printed collage of found and archival footage, with audio collage by John Shaw. (Chicago) “You are never alone, because you are full of all the memories, all the conditioning, all the mutterings of yesterday; your mind is never clear of all the rubbish it has accumulated. To be alone you must die to the past. When you are alone, totally alone, not belonging to any family, any nation, any culture, any particular continent, there is that sense of being an outsider. The man who is completely alone in this way is innocent, and it is this innocence that frees…

  • Ocean Beach / Point Lobos I, II, III

    A short sketch in tide, wind, and spray paint. Part of Ross Lipman’s experimental documentary compilation, “the perfect heart of flux,” also available through CFMDC.

  • Genesee

    Shot in the Genesee Valley of New York State on regular 8mm to commemorate the last rolls of Kodachrome. The colours of the leaves and the film stock are augmented by orange colour filters, boosting the contrast and highlighting the rich saturated yellows, reds and orange of stock and season.

  • 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”.