Film Categories: found footage

  • paradise falls, new mexico

    “The desert wind from America’s Southwestern ghost towns blows through the film’s emulsion, stripping away the myth behind the imagery of shoot-outs, outlaws and the lone gunmen from Hollywood Westerns.” – Images Festival, Toronto, 2004 Note: 16mm dual-projection Selected Screenings: Time Inside the Image [3], Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Jan. 31-March 31, 2007

  • Third Tongue, The

    “The Third Tongue” explores the loss of historical identity in a post-colonial society. A haunting look at the legacy of war.

  • Manifesto for Love

    An old pop song. A public declaration. The glimpse of someone caught for a moment in the sunlight. The risking of everything in an unavoidable adventure. How do we know the meaning of love? “Manifesto for Love” is an experiment in shape, music, vision and words to try to find a new expression of love.

  • To the Happy Few

    “A mind-expanding image jam that uses decades’ worth of found footage. The visuals of croaking frogs, 1950s’ housewives, fake suns and much more are structured around a mystical mandala and perfectly set to a Bollywood beat.” – Images Festival, 2004 “A punchy, satirical ride that mixes food, sex and violence in perverse Kuleshevian suggestions, all with great comedic timing. A great example of film giving birth to itself in hybrid, mutated forms.” – Genevieve Yue, What the Eye Sees, 2003 Awards: Hessian Film Prize for Best Short Film, 2003; Honourable Mention, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2004

  • Post mark lick

    “Post mark lick” is “a love-song to the pre-digital age of postal correspondence and photogram animation” (Images Festival, 2003). It explores the materiality of the postage stamp and the fleeting narratives of letters and postcards.

  • Flora’s Film

    In 1873, Eadweard Muybridge, commonly referred to as “the father of the motion picture,” succeeded in photographically freezing a horse mid-gallop. One year later, he shot and killed his wife’s lover. Using an evocative collection of found footage and sounds, Wilson channels the voice of Flora Muybridge, imagining her response to her husband’s act and subsequent acquittal at trial.

  • buffalo lifts

    Awash in sumptuous colour, a herd of buffalo desperately try to hold on as they struggle to cross the film frame.

  • Geometry of Beware

    One-minute of found footage of Mutt and Jeff from 1926 is literally reconstructed via paper prints from photocopies and pen and ink drawings. “Crazy, nifty, funky, fun…” – Michael Hope, Programmer, Cinecenta

  • Late

    Radio evangelist Sister Agnes Phillips dispenses wisdom and hope to lost souls against a late-night urban landscape of seedy hotels and dial-a-saviour billboards. Awards: Detroit Film Center Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2004

  • following the line of the web

    Creating an intricate visual map, photograms provide an opportunity to travel through the space of a spider’s web.