Film Format: 16mm
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Connecting Lines
Four passengers trace a circular journey connecting Seattle, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Chicago, and back to Seattle again. The action in Connecting Lines takes place in the bar cars of these moving trains, where changing landscapes fill a single moving-picture window, as an eclectic mix of passengers come and go in the foreground. These passengers do the things people on trains usually do: smoke, drink, and tell stories. As characters appear, wander off, and reappear at random, their tales are reinvented and adapted to suit new audiences. All the while, the passing landscape is being shaped into patterns by the…
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Discrete Moments
A short experimental film, “Discrete Moments” offers some paradoxical thoughts on the mathematics of “forever and ever.” While a big jet plane crawls across the tarmac, a love held back, goes unnoticed. “Discrete Moments” was produced for the 1994 Cineworks omnibus film Breaking Up in 3 Minutes. Six Vancouver filmmakers were each given 200 feet of film, restricted to one day of shooting, three edits, one track of sound, and asked to make a three minute film about the break-up of a personal relationship.
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This Missing You
A short poetic journey through the bittersweet tastes of long distance love.
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Confessions of a Compulsive Archivist
Built from artifacts recovered from her own then her mother’s storage closet, “Confessions of a Compulsive Archivist” follows the filmmaker’s tragic-comic struggle to let go of a few things of obviously no use to her. Part found footage film, part camera-less video, it turns stuff that should have been thrown out long ago into a poignant study of the relationship between the creative imagination and our attachments, be they material or emotional. “[One of] about a dozen superlative selections by women, [and an example of] an intriguing crop of new video works examining the medium’s widespread, elemental function as a…
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Cuentos de Mi Ninez (Tales from My Childhood)
“In 1973, General Augusto Pinochet launched a violent coup in Chile that overthrew the Marxist elected president Salvador Allende. Thousands were killed, tortured, imprisoned, and exiled as a result. My family was among the many that were exiled in Canada.” – Francisca Duran In this experimental, autobiographical film, a young woman remembers and recounts difficult childhood memories of the 1973 coup in Chile when her family was forced into exile.
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Two Unrelated Shots
An ode to our imaginative and creative instincts, “Two Unrelated Shots” is simply the outcome of a need to make something.
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Figure on the Ground, A
A hand-tinted hand-processed film loop dances with an obsolete low-tech telecine transfer machine to the underscore of a filtered soundscape. A portrait of the filmmaker in several inferences at once, with a nod to a few of her influences.
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Pictures of Things That Aren’t There
“Pictures of Things That Aren’t There” is an anthology of six works loosely tied together by the circumstance of their making: all were initiated while Daniel was caring for her mother as she lived out her life with a disease that erodes the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Her mother’s illness is never more than peripherally addressed. Daniel attends instead to the unnoticed workings of the creative imagination – the capacity of mind she believed her mother had lost. They are small works, made for one person and offered to anyone else who cares to appreciate them. Aesthetic…
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Checkout
A smart, fast-paced comedy about sexual competition and identity. Corey and Max compete for the same woman at the grocery store. However, all is not what it seems at the checkout line.