Film Categories: Portraits

  • This Unnamable Little Dream: or a Traced Sketch of Two Brothers

    a personal narrative inserted into an homage to the Brother’s Quay commissioned for the Splice This Remake This program.

  • Surface Tension

    snow, water, christmas lights, and shopping malls created for the afcoop Super 8 Xmas screening

  • Dishes

    measuring time in coffee spoons created as a part of the Ladies Film Bee with Helen Hill

  • Here

    an exploration of presence created as a part of the Ladies Film Bee with Helen Hill

  • Maternal Record Not Fully Recorded, A

    super 8 home movie footage captures memories not otherwise remembered while other memories never materialize in the tangible home photo archives

  • White Palace

    My early performances in thriller genres are reconsidered in a rehabilitation of images in this film. Though once renounced by me as complicit and misogynist, my filmed body is treated as recoverable for liberation of my memory.

  • Accidental, The

    This film is about inappropriate attention to sensory experiences other than the visual while driving and in response to an accident. Sound, touch and taste may disrupt safety to others and might threaten public order when not kept in check by the dominion of the visual. Dogs know all about this.

  • Diaries Notes and Sketches: Lost, Lost, Lost

    NOTE: Includes reel #1 and reel #2 only. 60 minutes total. Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten seconds, on still others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing. When one writes diaries, it’s a retrospective process: you sit down, you look back at your day, and you write it all down. To keep a film (camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this…

  • anamnesis

    “anamnesis” is a handmade diary film exploring home, memory, and history through heavily processed painterly sequences. The film was shot at the Independent Imaging Retreat (the Film Farm) in Mount Forest, Ontario. Selected Screenings: Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, 2009 (Montreal, QC); Berlin International Film Festival, Forum Expanded Section, 2009 (Germany)

  • Ever Present Going Past

    Filmmaker Philip Hoffman and poet Gerry Shikatani combine to make a cine-poem about the making of gardens, films and poems. Excerpts from Shikatani’s `First Book, Three Gardens of Andalucia’.