Film Categories: environment

  • her silent life

    A version of family. From mother, grandmother, great-grandmother to me, stories flow through our matrilineal heritage to explore the remarkable life of my Inuk great-grandmother.

  • Scaffolding (Andamio)

    Eduardo, a snob publicist who lives cranky most of the day and David, a shy student of literature are neighbors in a building under construction. After 6 months hardly greet a scaffold intercede between them causing unexpected reactions in each. Spanish with English subtitles

  • Second Phase

    In observing the volatility and liquid nature of what appears to be solid, “Second Phase” exists as a discovery of form through process and quietly observes a community space that remains constant amongst all the things that pass through it.

  • Dynamique de la pénombre (Half light dynamics)

    An encounter in dark places, movements in chiaroscuro and the breath of a rising wind illuminate the darkness of the frame. An intimate dynamic is setting up. It will bring out, in all its magnitude, the light of day. “Half light dynamics” captures the nuances of an encounter, the apprehensions and desires that are forged in the depth and darkness of the frame. Glimpsed movements and possible outbursts offer to the eye and ear all the dynamism of an emerging world. Focusing on details of the gestures and on the presence of the body crossing the darkness, “Half light dynamics”…

  • Transits of Venus, The

    The two films, the first black and white, the second in color, record the sky when Venus passed across the Sun on June 6th, 2004 and June 6th 2012. Transits of Venus occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits 8 years apart, separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years. Each shot is contextualized with data detailing the various technical parameters that determine the peculiarity of the image. This data is an integral part of the work.

  • Parallèle Nord (Parallel North)

    “Dans un monde réellement renversé, le vrai est un moment du faux.” – Guy Debord, La société du spectacle Qu’en est-il de la forêt boréale? “In a world that has really been turned upside down, the true is a moment of the false.” – Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle What about the boreal forest?

  • Just Passing Through

    Told through the perspective of a landscape, “Just Passing Through” tells the story of evolution as one image gives rise to the next. The film explores the relationship between permanence and impermanence where familiar subjects are fleeting and we are left to contemplate unfamiliar landscapes.

  • Different as Night and Day

    “Different as Night and Day,” shot in the Port Lands of Toronto, Canada, examines the disconcerting coexistence of technology and nature. It cycles through three views of two power plants as light and climate transition (cf. Claude Monet’s series of Rouen Cathedral). The views are bridged by long dissolves of smoke streaming from one of the plants. The dissolves are often gorgeous and reminiscent of the Northern Lights, but are composed with images of airborne pollutants (cf. the pollutionenhanced sunsets painted by JMW Turner in the 19th century). “Different as Night and Day” is a dynamic painting.

  • Walking Away 2

    Scarborough Bluffs (1974): a woman walks away from us, through a field of grass. Approaching a treeline, she turns and crosses the frame. Instead of panning to accommodate her, the camera zooms wider – the woman continues to diminish as if still walking away and the landscape is fully revealed. The shot partially repeats: a wipe transition replaces the grass with water, and a ‘shipscape’ from Toronto’s Port Lands (2011) is revealed. Poetically, light reflected from downtown office towers catches the sail of a boat crossing the frame. Then amusingly, a split-screen sequence underlines the correspondence between woman and sailboat.

  • Queen’s Quay

    Red, green, blue, and yellow grids track the horizon, left and right. The colours mix.