Film Categories: Sound Art + Music
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Going Very Steady
Going Very Steady is a film about the Id, finding one’s identity in a world governed by authority, and society’s Super Ego as it appears as a menacing, marching work force.
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One Foot In The Grave
The questions of freedom and the cost of society’s overconsumption are raised in a graveyard where dead military men have been buried.
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Process
Experimental texture dictates the plot of Process, which explores male/female relationships in crisis.
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Sarnia 1
Lights dance to a beat filling the screen with colour and simile while travelling through Canada.
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Shopping Cart
Humankind’s penchant for overindulgence is explored through images of a shopping cart in a vast deserted parking lot.
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G/R/E/A/S/E
What the hell is G/R/E/A/S/E? … a handmade décollage film / Vinyl and Celluloid Party / the last piece of the “Film Quartet” trilogy [with FILM QUARTET / POLYFRAME (2006-2008) & KINOSTURM KUBELKA / 16 variaciones (2009)] / a deconstruction / Sandy / Danny / Sanny / Dandy / … both faces at the same frame? / […] ? […] / A new (sub)versions film… all from the original Grease (1978) / a Re-Play [to – with] Grease? / A Musical? / Found Footage Film ? Appropriationism / Experimental Cinema must be serious only? / Inspired by Dziga Vertov, Mimmo…
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Dream Filip
In this filmic portrait, artist Filip Olszewski dreams, dances, and dreams of dancing. He moves amongst sheer fabric, candlelight, smoke and makeshift altars to a cover of the song “Dream Weaver” (sung by the filmmaker). Inspired by Filip’s performance art, the video attempts to reconcile feelings of euphoria experienced when dancing with the pain of being earth-bound. The video and song are gifts of friendship.
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Eyelash Wars
Eyelash Wars is a melodramatic, expanded fiction about the rivalry between two female entrepreneurs who battle for supremacy in the false eyelash business. They compete by putting on elaborate, bizarro window displays that in time, escalate in scale and symbolism. Townspeople come and go, playing bit parts in this haunting and surreal world. In addition to screening as a single-channel film, Eyelash Wars can be presented in conjunction with installation and performance components that extend the story beyond the boundaries of the screen.
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HiFi Normal
“Toward the insignificant” was the oblique strategy card that inspired this VHS collaboration. Beginning with representational images of a local landmark, the image gradually decays until it is replaced completely with abstraction. Two VHS decks were joined together and plugged into one side of a handmade DIY video mixer, while the other input of the mixer was connected to a VHS camera running a feedback loop. The starting image running on the loop was a static image of a telecommunications tower in the centre of Moncton which in recent years, has become almost useless, standing alone in the middle of…
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Seeker Wing
One person makes the long and difficult journey towards finding their own beauty. In trying to mimic the beauty of others around them, they repeatedly fail at their attempts to be something they’re not. Only when they muster the courage to look inward, do they find what they were looking for all along.
