Film Categories: Poetry

  • Tell Me about SunTea

    Tell Me about SunTea (Super 8, Digital Video, Colour, Stereo Sound, 6 minutes and 47 seconds) Tell Me about SunTea builds a conversational and spatial ecosystem, weaving together the disparate spaces of the Toronto Islands and Covington, Texas. The film considers the life cycles of plants and animals, as discussed by the filmmaker’s Gram and as remembered by the filmmaker. Conversational obstacles and a failed interview attempt are re-imagined as off-road opportunities. The repeated voice over reveals changes in cadence and content that point to the fragile intimacy held in language and storytelling. “Considering different forms of mechanical and organic…

  • Sunprints 1,2,3

    Based loosely on the tripartite plan of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), the film was made by applying cyanotype chemistry to blank film exposed to sun . The resultant blue and white footage was then combined with camera footage in three sections: Into the Valley, Middle Ground, Radiance.

  • The Magical Quality of Armpits

    A silent foray into the most underappreciated part of the body.

  • kauaʻi ʻōʻō

    Hawaii 1987, the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō sings its final serenade.

  • Don’t Forget The Water

    A phone conversation sets the diasporic table as a disembodied figure prepares Qahwah Arabi / Arabic Coffee. Here, the contradictions inherent in Google Translate’s instant camera feature are made visible through glitched mistranslations. Using these flaws as a prompt, the communication between a mother and a daughter considers ambiguity as a source of embodied knowledge. 

  • Blossom

    Blossom is an abstract animated diary by Jesi Jordan, drawn over the course of 4 years. Drawn and presented in chronological order and created with over 11,000 pencil drawings on paper.

  • Earth, Take Me With You !

    A return to the earth

  • Let Love Be Love In Me

    Inhaling love and submersing into peace, created in collaboration with Mother Earth.

  • Bug Bite

    A bug bite leaves us frozen in a surrender, looking back at nature, and transmitting our human emotion back into the belly of the earth.

  • Water Break

    Exploring fertility in simbiosis with Mother Earth.