Film Format: 16mm

  • Scenes de la Vie Francaise: Paris

    “Scenes de la vie francaise: Paris” is one of a series of films: Arles, Paris, La Ciotat, Avignon. All four films have a similar organizational procedure in that their material is woven together on an ordinary printer according to a certain pattern. The problems that arise are tackled, however, in a slightly different way in the case of each film. In “Scenes de la vie Francaise: Paris” several places – Jardin du Luxembourg, Place de la Republique, Rue St. Antoine, Canal St. Martin, Place de la Bastille – are presented by the means of a composition of frames recorded at…

  • Scenes from Macbeth

    “Scenes from Macbeth” is a pared-down version of Shakespeare’s tragedy of ambition, set in the world of contemporary Toronto’s business elite. Macbeth’s rise is spurred by the prophecy of three bag ladies; his fall is planned over a power lunch. The story is filmed in a hyperbolic style with no respect for tradition.

  • Scenes from Under Childhood #1

    A visualization of the inner world of fetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child – a shattering of the “myths of childhood” through revelation of the extremes of violent terror and overwhelming joy of that world darkened to most adults by their sentimental remembering of it… a “tone poem” for the eye – very inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen. (SB)

  • Scenes from Under Childhood #2

    A visualization of the inner world of fetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child – a shattering of the “myths of childhood” through revelation of the extremes of violent terror and overwhelming joy of that world darkened to most adults by their sentimental remembering of it… a “tone poem” for the eye – very inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen. (SB) (A continuation of “Scenes from Under Childhood #1.”)

  • Scenes from Under Childhood #3

    A visualization of the inner world of fetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child – a shattering of the “myths of childhood” through revelation of the extremes of violent terror and overwhelming joy of that world darkened to most adults by their sentimental remembering of it… a “tone poem” for the eye – very inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen. (SB) (A continuation of “Scenes from Under Childhood #2.”)

  • Base Tranquility

    This film, done in the fine tradition of hand-painted images and sound, deals with Western man’s fetish for technology.

  • Scenes from Under Childhood #4

    A visualization of the inner world of fetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child – a shattering of the “myths of childhood” through revelation of the extremes of violent terror and overwhelming joy of that world darkened to most adults by their sentimental remembering of it… a “tone poem” for the eye – very inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen. (SB) (A continuation of “Scenes from Under Childhood #3.”)

  • School

    A bad movie about a bad school girl. The kind of spanking-fetish film Disney would have made.

  • Scientific Girl, The

    “The Scientific Girl” explores the “outbreak” of 1940’s Hollywood films featuring mentally ill heroines – Olivia de Havilland in “The Snake Pit,” for example. By tracing the treatment of hysterical women in the 1890s, our heroine, the Scientific Girl, reveals how women’s problems have been stereotyped and how the “evil-seductress effect” works. “An intelligent attempt to span generations and cinematically tie together the treatment of hysteria in women as a form of entertainment…an intriguing subject.” – Cinema Canada

  • Scissere

    A narrative formed from a young man’s unfiltered perception of a fragmented environment following his release from a psychiatric clinic. The film concentrates on his perception of three individuals – a drug addict, a scientist, and a young mother. The film is a study of the order in confusion, forcing the viewer to construct and decipher the inter-relatedness of the strands that constitute the story.