Film Format: 16mm

  • Kiss

    An experimental reinterpretation of Andy Warhol’s 1963 silent short film of the same name, “Kiss” recontextualizes his protest against the Hays Code’s time restriction of onscreen kissing as an impassioned indictment of laws that prohibit and punish homosexuality in certain countries. Featuring a cast of performers hailing from countries where these laws exist transforming an expression of love and desire into a political protest, “Kiss” artfully challenges and resists the sanctioned condemnation and persecution LGBTQ persons confront. Selected screenings: Sicilia Queer Film Festival (2012); Schwule Filmwoche Freiburg – Freiburg International Gay Film Festival (2012); Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and…

  • her silent life

    A version of family. From mother, grandmother, great-grandmother to me, stories flow through our matrilineal heritage to explore the remarkable life of my Inuk great-grandmother.

  • Not Waving But Drowning

    I was too far out all my life and not waving, but drowning.

  • Maverick

    “Maverick” is a meta-film. Part lucid dream, part manifesto and part autobiography; the film is an affirmation of the power of film flicker. Embracing the potential of an indeterminate process this Super 8 film has been entirely hand-processed, experimenting with alternative chemical process to achieve unique and unpredictable images. The films visual dialogue implies that these are not “special effects” but rather the mediums main mode of expression. Less about interpreting images and more about capturing them, Maverick traverses time in the medium of light to construct a particularly analog view of the world mediated by the mechanical eye.

  • though she never spoke, this is where her voice would have been.

    An autotopographical portrait of someone through what was left behind and what is missing.

  • How to Make a Phantastik Film

    A look at the traditional 50s housewife and her attempts at counter-culture. Brought to you by Phantastik.

  • all-around junior male

    A single-subject portrait of a young Nunamiut athlete through the practice of his sport, which focuses on the materiality of film and its surface textures. Image description: A dramatic image of a Nunamiut man’s face, in black-and-white with a sepia tint. One side of his face is brightly lit and the other is in dark shadow.

  • Barge Dirge

    Built in 1972, The Rothesay Carrier, one of the largest sea-faring vessels of her kind ever constructed, spends one long lonely year trapped by ice in a Canadian Arctic hamlet. Subsequent to the shooting of this footage, she was crushed and melted for scrap. A portrait study of an object explored through the structure of film editing and the structure of the object itself.

  • 1857 (Fool’s Gold)

    Four types of visual forms appear in this film: photographed scenes, written texts, mathematical symbols and numerals. The course of the film is charted by the transformations which these images undergo. The film has a narrative form, but… one that is developed purely in terms of the manipulation of the colour characteristics of the images. The texts included in the film are drawn from Ezra Pound’s “Cantos.” They serve, in the first place, to involve the spectator in the process of reading. Furthermore, Pound’s text is ideal for exploring fairly completely the range of relations that can exist between image…

  • Solar Sight Part 2: Basking in Time

    Many of the approaches to the cut-out material are the same as in part I, however II is a much different film. It is more meditative. It has a somewhat slower pace. I tried to let the cut-outs float more gracefully. Again, John Davis’ music forms an integral part of the meditation. I have used that word ‘meditation’ because that is how some very astute friends of mine described it to me on first viewing. The approach is partly planned, partly improvised under the camera. There has been little or no editing outside the camera for many years in my…