Film Categories: Landscape

  • Parenthesis

    A simple inadvertent sequence of a few unassuming moments ends up feeling somehow sad and somehow beautiful. How this happens is hard to say. It has something to do with the interplay between what we can and cannot see, the incidental tensions underlying each small moment, the figures forming and reforming on the side.

  • Two Unrelated Shots

    An ode to our imaginative and creative instincts, “Two Unrelated Shots” is simply the outcome of a need to make something.

  • Figure on the Ground, A

    A hand-tinted hand-processed film loop dances with an obsolete low-tech telecine transfer machine to the underscore of a filtered soundscape. A portrait of the filmmaker in several inferences at once, with a nod to a few of her influences.

  • Pictures of Things That Aren’t There

    “Pictures of Things That Aren’t There” is an anthology of six works loosely tied together by the circumstance of their making: all were initiated while Daniel was caring for her mother as she lived out her life with a disease that erodes the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Her mother’s illness is never more than peripherally addressed. Daniel attends instead to the unnoticed workings of the creative imagination – the capacity of mind she believed her mother had lost. They are small works, made for one person and offered to anyone else who cares to appreciate them. Aesthetic…

  • Berlin Zoo

    The footage for “Berlin Zoo” was taken in Germany while I was travelling there in the winter of 2003. This is an anecdotal film, set to an original song by the filmmaker.

  • View of the Falls from the Canadian Side

    In 1896, William Heise photographed the first 35mm motion picture images of Canada at Niagara Falls. The four-perforation camera system he used was designed and built by Thomas Edison and William K. Dickson, and the stock was manufactured by George Eastman to Edison’s specifications. This film was photographed using the same essential technology and is dedicated to the visionary ideas of those pioneers. Commissioned by The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers Toronto for its Film is Dead – Long Live Film omnibus project. Selected Screenings: International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2007; Media City, Windsor, ON, 2007

  • 930

    Originally filmed inside Québec City’s CP train tunnel, 930 presents a series of sequences oscillating between light and darkness, intercut with moments of stillness.

  • Lake Ontario (in my head)

    A meditative look at a mutable and hypnotic horizon. Grainy Super 8 imagery, optically printed 16mm footage and an atmospheric soundtrack evoke the stillness of mind reached when standing before expansive sky and water. Filmed at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Lake Ontario (in my head) was created as part of LIFT’s 25th anniversary Film is Dead… Long Live Film! commissioning project.

  • Breakdance Hunx (Market Value Mix)

    An homage to the cylists of the world and routes less traveled. Referencing The Smiths, Run DMC, and Kenneth Anger, this video follows six bike gangs through back alleys and side streets. The gangs travel to a park where a dance battle ensues.

  • Gigantic

    Through the voice of a travelling narrator, we are shown the world through the eyes of a young and seemingly mad vagabond who speaks of his adventures, dreams, and experiences throughout Toronto, New York, and eventually Argentina.