Film Categories: Sound Art + Music

  • you rub me the wrong way

    you rub me the wrong way was created as part of SOUND + VISION TORONTO produced by Basement Arts. This project paired 5 local filmmakers with 5 local bands/musicians and 1 local neighborhood. I was asked to interpret and adapt a song by the potent forces behind post-punk band Pants & Tie in Toronto’s dynamic Kensington Market.

  • Tiny Mirrors

    An ancient goddess probes the concrete jungle that stands between her and a rising metropolis. Her primal movements shudder like haunting melodies as she seeks to discover truth.  Two teenagers descend into the city’s entrails to grow graffiti gardens and find a space to dream.  A young woman searches for wisdom with the uneasy feeling that something inside of her is shifting.  All their stories intertwine as they build bridges to the other side. Tiny Mirrors, is a music video collaboration between lal and Wandering Eye that seeks to re-imagine our perceptions of ritual, rebellion and change in a time of…

  • Doom

    Doom is a slapstick caper of a kidnapping turned on its head; a farcical take on Stockholm Syndrome. A group of businessmen and bankers are corralled from the streets of their work for the purpose of detention, observation and ultimate indoctrination by a group of unlikely bandits. Their captivity initially frightens them but through the treatment by their strange yet benevolent captors, the men quickly view their corporate transgressions with disdain as they reject the freedom they are eventually offered.

  • CHRISTEENE “Big Shot”

    In “Big Shot”, the 7th installment of the CHRISTEENE video collection, rabbits roam free across the sinister landscape of CHRISTEENE’s fuck fantasy.

  • CHRISTEENE “FUK V29”

    Welcome to “FUK V29”, the 8th installment of the CHRISTEENE Video Collection. Sit back. Open your mouths. Spread your legs. Don’t hide nuthin’.

  • Soak

    Soak is a short experimental student film shot and edited on digital formats, produced at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. This film explores the physical and emotional sensations of self-care. In this film a woman attempts to pull herself out of her sinking mood by taking a bath.

  • Evolution: A Theme with Variations

    “Evolution: A Theme with Variations” is a journey through music and art from the Renaissance to the present. We hear and see a musical theme performed in stylized examples from six eras – Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, French Impressionistic, and Twentieth Century – accompanied by images of art and architecture selected from works created in these eras. A final variation combines all the above styles as it retraces its path back to a Renaissance bacchanal or dance. Another facet of creation appears throughout the film: the musician and his/her instrument, often shot alone, surrounded by darkness, to symbolize that art…

  • STILLE STADT

    STILLE STADT (trans. Silent City) depicts the state of contemporary urbanity through an Everyman on the verge of a mid-life crisis, who goes through his life of routine both stricken and sustained by opera arias, that stand in for his thoughts and emotions that only he (and the audience) can hear. STILLE STADT in an allegory of modern existence that blends the real with surreal to explore how urban dwellers lose their connection with the environment, people, and praxis; and the suppression and containment of those lost connections by consumerism, distraction, and interiorization. STILLE STADT is an update and inversion…

  • Head Cleaner

    Hand-drawn and digital animation, analog video effects, re-photography and video feedback transform images issuing from an apparently malfunctioning machine. Materials and objects, in varying physical or mediated transfigurations, pervade each scene, as relics from one moment in a transformation from girlhood to womanhood. Tongue-in-cheek commentary on entertainment technology’s fraught relationship to individual agency and identity, and its role in the standardization of expression and behaviour, underlies a loosely suggested coming-of-age narrative.

  • Tone Poem with Hang Drum

    In this experimental narrative, we are in a world that moves more slowly than the one we are used to, allowing us to savour the sights and sounds. The pace also reminds us that in the place where the story unfolds (southern Spain), things move more at a more deliberate pace than, for example, in the United States. As the short progresses, we see that we are watching lamenco costume designer Adela on a very special day in her life. Adela’s life has a rhythm to it, and is filled with the beautiful colours of the cloth out of which…