Film Categories: Landscape

  • Ride This Country

    “Ride This Country” observes the interplay between man, machine and landscape during a long day of work. Festival premiere at Media City Festival (Windsor, ON), 2011

  • L’Internationale

    In a foreign landscape, futuristic factories and boreholes harvesting geothermal steam serve as beacons of familiarity in the face of an unknown future. Selected screenings: Best Experimental, Chicago Underground Film Festival; Signal & Noise Media Art Festival (Vancouver, BC), 2011; Honorable Mention, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, 2011

  • James MacSwain Retrospective, A

    “Atlantic native James MacSwain has made more than 20 films over the last 30 years. His voice has become a pervasive and sophisticated contribution to the experimental film community in this country, often literally as his extensive use of voiceover – and his clever scripts – evince a considerable talent as a writer. MacSwain’s particular use of 16mm collage and animation appear deceptively simple, but his films have a lingering depth and poignancy that resists easy categorization.” – Images Festival, 2011 DVD Compilation Contains: 1. Little Known Curious Facts (1981, 4.20 min.) 2. Flower (1984, 8.20 min.) 3. Amherst (1984,…

  • Saskatchewan Trilogy, The

    DVD Compilation Featuring: SASKATCHEWAN, PART 1 (5:40 min. 2002) Using home movies, vintage memorabilia, and the straight facts about Saskatchewan, the filmmaker creates an eccentric portrait of the first year of his life, and the province that shaped his identity. “Brian Stockton’s bittersweet tribute to the province he was born in perfectly captures the essence of life in the vast and lonely prairies.” – Nicole Cohen, EYE Weekly SASKATCHEWAN, PART 2 (12:40 min. 2003) Brian Stockton’s series of eccentric autobiographical short films continues with Part 2, “That’s My Wonderful Town,” an ode to Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada – past, present and…

  • To reveal the fourteen windows

    “To reveal the fourteen windows” a collaboration with Denver-based Poet Julie Carr In crayon drawings Some persons lie buried in fire and some have been suspended in a wave Rain withdraws its praise

  • Tableaux Vivants

    A rumination on cinematic time reversals as versatile continuums. Re-discovering the outdoors as (a stage) set where the natural is made to pose as the artifice. Selected screenings: Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival (Chicago, USA), 2011; Views from the Avant Garde, New York Film Festival, 2011

  • Armoire (in 4 parts)

    A four-part study of motion, shape and colour inspired by a robin’s flight. “The aviary in the mirror, in-flight hide-and-seek, mischief on the wing.” – Mark McElhatten, Rotterdam Film Festival Consists of: “Armoire Prologue” (2:40, 2007), “Coda” (2:30, 2009) and two new episodes (2011). Selected screenings: Views from the Avant Garde, New York Film Festival, 2011; Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montreal, QC), 2011

  • Dissolving Forest

    “Dissolving Forest” enhances its subject as a dynamic living entity. Shot in a lightly foliaged forest, it consists entirely of tracking shots, using slow shutter speeds to create pigment-like smears and vibrant color. The location sound, sometimes ominous, places the seemingly bucolic locale near civilization. Visually, “Dissolving Forest” operates on three planes: the canvas-like background of the sky blown out to white, discernible forest in the middle ground, and foreground foliage reduced to streaming color-all tied together with frequent dissolves. As early spring progresses into the deep greens of late spring, “Dissolving Forest” becomes a painting evolving in its frame.

  • 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.

  • Afternoon in Bottle Village

    A requiem for a cathedral of light, built entirely of glass bottles, pencils, and industrial detritus by legendary California outsider artist Grandma Prisbrey from 1956 to 1981. The Village has long since fallen into decay, and is accessible by hopping a small fence. The spirit of Grandma Prisbrey is conjured from the ruins with an improv on broken piano by Jodie Baltazar (aka Monotrona). Part of Ross Lipman’s experimental documentary compilation, “the perfect heart of flux,” also available through CFMDC.