Film Categories: Landscape

  • december

    One woman’s journey into herself and an embrace of her life.

  • About Flight: The Surly Bonds of Earth

    In this collage of simple images from everyday life, such as feet and butterflies, birds and flowers, the pedestrian nature of human origins is found at play amongst images of a compromised nature. From vignettes of machine-fed birds that mirror a fascination with wings, this film reflects on some of the darker fruits of man’s desire for the capacity for flight. Using both colour and B&W stock, “About Flight” is mainly processed by hand and modulated with colour tints, toning and both in-camera and darkroom effects.

  • Loon Lights

    In the habitat of the Loons a dynamic force is discovered. Its rhythmic play shifts and darts amongst the elements that host it, sometimes transposing its form in moods that plumb the amplitude of all that is visible by day or night. Chromatic intervention surprises moments of pastoral bliss with symphonic shatterings, borne on the medium that is the sustenance of film itself.

  • Venice for Homosexuals

    A voyeuristic Venetian promotional film for the traveling male homosexual. Shots of hotties spied along Venice’s famed canals are accompanied by a piece of vintage Venetian opera.

  • Canadian Landscape

    A tongue-in-cheek meditation on the Canadian iconographic obsession with landscape. A (literally) washed-up drag queen on the shores of Newfoundland finds herself trapped in a vicious circle.

  • Hollywood Forever

    Using the Hollywood Forever cemetary as a backdrop (the cemetary that figures prominently in Kenneth Anger’s “Hollywood Babylon”), the filmmaker recounts his visit to Outfest, LA’s big queer film fest. Pigeons sit on grandiose monuments, flying down to snack, as Hollings talks about the perks of visiting an LA film festival as an experimental filmmaker – especially the free drinks and all-you-can-eat buffets.

  • Fuga di Olmo, La (Olmo’s Escape)

    Olmo is a blue Italian ladies’ bike. After spending years abandoned in a dusty garage, Olmo finally sees the road again after escaping from a yard sale. What follows is an epic ride all over Toronto during which Olmo discovers the truth about being a bicycle in a vast urban metropolis. Part adventure-comedy, part environmental fable, “La Fuga di Olmo” is a light-hearted cautionary tale about what could happen if you don’t ride your bike.

  • Still to Go

    “Still to Go” depicts an existential roadblock. An animated character finds himself in an immobile walk cycle while attempting to cross the street. The ‘don’t walk’ signal is relentless and takes on a life of its own. The character seems fated to an unmoving walk cycle when his environment revolves to reveal the layers of his movements. Jack is exposed as a series of images at different stages in time. Still to go deals with cycles, layers transformation and rebirth. Selected screenings: Montreal World Film Festival 2005; Vancouver International Film Festival 2005; Los Angeles International Short Film Festival 2005.

  • Boy

    The visual poetics of Vancouver are brought to light as the filmmaker reflects on the cities she has lived in, motherhood and the birth of her first son. Image description: A blurry and rain-soaked streetscape as viewed through a car windshield.

  • Lasso

    My meditation on the romance of the “Wild West” – pure spatial motion. – and – Exploring the virtual potential of the horizon line while framing that spatial experience. “All landscapes can be described as hills and valleys, and time is said to flow. But geographically speaking, hills and valleys are maxima and minima whose definition presupposes the choice of gravitational vector. Such that the reading of a landscape, in a relation not to extrema but to inflections, leads us towards an experience of weightlessness.” – Bernard Cache, “Terre Meuble”