Film Format: 16mm

  • L’Internationale

    In a foreign landscape, futuristic factories and boreholes harvesting geothermal steam serve as beacons of familiarity in the face of an unknown future. Selected screenings: Best Experimental, Chicago Underground Film Festival; Signal & Noise Media Art Festival (Vancouver, BC), 2011; Honorable Mention, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, 2011

  • Duo Concertantes

    An established classic. Steel engravings form a surrealistic dream world. P. Adams Sitney has written at length on the film in his book “Visionary Film.” It can be shown to any adventurous audience, young or old, and has never disappointed. The theme – resurrection, rebirth, flight into higher spheres – was thought to be out-moded in this century’s art. Evidently not, judging from the impact of the film on viewers. “Jordan’s imagery is exquisite and eloquent, concentrating on simple, repeated use of particularly poetic symbols and figures, a conglomerative effect of old Gustav Dore drawings, 19th century whatnot memorabilia, all…

  • Flyers

    A street flyer leads to a surprising discovery.

  • Duration of Life and Other Tales from the Grimms, The

    Seven of the Grimms’ most mysterious and obscure fairytales are told over a dazzling display of Ontario landscape. Under the guidance of Katherine Grier’s careful telling, Canadian filmmaker Amy Bodman uses the film to create a dialogue between the inner and outer worlds, attempting to show how one’s imaginings are essential in giving meaning in our day-to-day living.

  • James MacSwain Retrospective, A

    “Atlantic native James MacSwain has made more than 20 films over the last 30 years. His voice has become a pervasive and sophisticated contribution to the experimental film community in this country, often literally as his extensive use of voiceover – and his clever scripts – evince a considerable talent as a writer. MacSwain’s particular use of 16mm collage and animation appear deceptively simple, but his films have a lingering depth and poignancy that resists easy categorization.” – Images Festival, 2011 DVD Compilation Contains: 1. Little Known Curious Facts (1981, 4.20 min.) 2. Flower (1984, 8.20 min.) 3. Amherst (1984,…

  • François Miron: Experimental Films / Films Expérimentaux 1985-2009

    Curated by Etienne Desrosiers. This DVD compilation brings together thirteen films by iconoclastic filmmaker François Miron. Without belonging to any artistic school, Miron has forged a unique style, one that combines a great variety of techniques and materials: found footage, live action, animation, collage, scratches, and flicker. Like Paul Sharits, François Miron sees film as a laying bare of the drama of celluloid. This drama is not psychological, but that of the violence of spatial and temporal ruptures in the film material, an experience more sensorial than emotive. With Miron, this cinema takes form convulsively, out from the clash of…

  • Saskatchewan Trilogy, The

    DVD Compilation Featuring: SASKATCHEWAN, PART 1 (5:40 min. 2002) Using home movies, vintage memorabilia, and the straight facts about Saskatchewan, the filmmaker creates an eccentric portrait of the first year of his life, and the province that shaped his identity. “Brian Stockton’s bittersweet tribute to the province he was born in perfectly captures the essence of life in the vast and lonely prairies.” – Nicole Cohen, EYE Weekly SASKATCHEWAN, PART 2 (12:40 min. 2003) Brian Stockton’s series of eccentric autobiographical short films continues with Part 2, “That’s My Wonderful Town,” an ode to Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada – past, present and…

  • in the nature of things

    The central image of in the nature of things is the Forest – sometimes fearful, sometimes a refuge, always mysterious, and the multiple associations and myths embedded in it – myths within which we live and which live within us – our collective history. But, unexpected moments, intensified fragments, catch us unawares – the present confronts us. For Emmanuel Levinas, the face-to-face encounter with another is a privileged phenomenon in which the person’s proximity and distance are both strongly felt. “The face opens the primordial discourse whose first word is obligation…the face speaks…the first word of the face is ‘Thou…

  • Dyketactics

    A popular lesbian “commercial,” 110 images of sensual touching montages in A,B,C,D rolls of “kinaesthetic” editing. ” “The images are varied and very quickly presented in the early part of the film, introducing the characters, if you will. The second half of the film slows down measurably and all of a sudden I found myself holding my breath as I watched the images of lovemaking sensually and artistically captured.” – Elizabeth Lay, Plexus

  • Malanga

    Gerard Malanga reads his poetry for 24 frames, dances to Velvet Underground for 24 frames, reads for 23 frames, dances for 23 frames, reads for 22 frames, etc., until he is doing both things alternately one frame at a time. An experiment in audio-visual synaesthesia called discontinuous film. No frame is missed, however brief its exposure, because the synthaesthesia increases efficiency of both eye and ear.