Film Format: 16mm

  • it’s easier to pick sours than sweets

    A conversation about cherries, as illustrated by the shape of ducks and the motion of cherry blossom petals, as demonstrated on celluloid soaked in cherry juice.

  • Charles Gagnon: 4 Films

    DVD + Catalogue For the first time the experimental films of renowned multidisciplinary artist Charles Gagnon are available in digitized form through a DVD collection and accompanying catalogue. “Charles Gagnon: 4 Films” unites Gagnon’s 1960s experimental films and highlights the intersections between film, painting, photography, and music in his artistic œuvre. 4 Films resonates with the countercultural consciousness of the 1960s and is exemplary of avant-garde experimental collage and structuralist filmmaking aesthetics, which are evident throughout these four 16mm works produced between 1966 and 1972. Created within the vibrant social and cultural context of 1960s Québec, this collection begins with…

  • GarBanZo

    All of the images and sounds are created by drawing, painting, etching or applying shapes directly onto the film.

  • Jay Dreams

    “Jay Dreams” uses Jai Brook’s ironic poetry to bring humanity and humor to sometimes awkward moments in the on-going struggle for LGBT people to self-define, find safe partnerships, and gain acceptance. Catherine Pancake uses improvised documentary footage of Jai Brooks and his partner, Monique Meadows, to present the realities of daily life. Special vignettes shot in colour 16mm highlight more idealized (fantasized?) images. The interplay between fantasy and reality provides a humorous and entertaining backdrop to find human commonalities across race, gender, and sexual orientation.

  • Fredagsbarn (Friday’s Child)

    Sexuality awakens with a kiss. Rune is 14-years-old and different from other boys. After having a fight with his dad, Rune leaves to explore the docks nearby. Benjamin, an older boy, is painting graffiti on an abandoned factory. Intrigued, Rune approaches Benjamin to say hi… Danish with English subtitles

  • Riding Along

    “A month’s wandering, hitch-hiking towards Eastern Europe with a few rolls of 16mm film, a microphone and an old Bolex camera. An intuitive recollection of sounds and images from the journey’s chance meetings and landscapes. One conviction leads me on these roads: different forms of assocation between sound and image are possible. The recording device is at the heart of the encounters as the emotional barometer of an atypical journey. From car to car, the film unfolds and finds its way, slowly drawing a self-portrait.” – Sébastien Demeffe

  • Ampoule Brulee, L’

    This short film is a poetic meditation on the end of life as represented by the filmmaker’s grandmother. The grandmother, in her rocking chair, reaches out for the single light that illuminates her, expressing her determination and also, as the light goes out, the reconciliation to her own death.

  • Dog Star Man: Prelude

    “This film’s themes are as vast as its subject matter and techniques: the relationships between man and his surroundings, of the personal to the general, of seeing to perception.” – Fred Camper “The film breathes and is an organic and surging thing… it is a colossal lyrical adventure-dance of image in every variation of color.” – Michael McClure

  • Tracking Sasquatch (field report #1)

    A search for the elusive Sasquatch. The first chapter in an ongoing series.

  • Clay

    This film explores the idea of the consistency of land use over time. In the exact location of where the filmmaker is living and realizing this project, trypillian people lived over 5,000 year ago. A modern day, post soviet brick factory in the village uses the exact same process to make bricks that the trypillian people used to make pots. Through this same process, and the unexplained burning of the trypillian homes, we have fired clay remnants of their presence in this village in very large numbers. A reknowned local archeologist talks about these people and their relationship to land,…