Film Format: 16mm

  • 2076 (Elegy)

    In the year 2076, a cyborg finds moving images made by their great-grandmother in the last years of celluloid. Looking at the images, they are struck by the past, causing them to dig into their own memories, history, and identity.  Gleaned from images from the filmmaker’s life, 2076 looks at the ways in which familial history and queer identity are communicated through the archive/photographic image. Topically situated as the analog image is quickly disappearing, this film explores its virtues, illustrating the ways in which the past imbues small moments with power and glimpses of our past can speak and serve…

  • Experiments In Light

    This short explores light as a meditative state while encouraging the viewer to take a moment to be present within themselves. Taking footage from my narrative self portrait A Celebration of Darkness (2015) and recutting it to refocus on the various macro shots of crystals as an expansion on the theme of light and darkness. The images in this short was made possible by the LIFT/ImagineNATIVE 16 mm Film Mentorship in 2015, it’s post production was funded by the Ontario Arts Council Access and Development grant in 2016 and completed as part of my Media Artist in Residence with Workman…

  • Folded River

    An empty canoe floats down a river. A landscape turns inward: time and place are enfolded. Two images converge producing a third, unseen image; a vanishing memory.

  • The Canoe

    A woman finds refuge in an empty summer home when her camping trip is interrupted by a storm.

  • Pierre Radisson – Fjord and Gulf

    “Pierre Radisson – Fjord and Gulf” presents the daily activity and environment of its eponymous Canadian Coast Guard Icebreaker. The CCGS Pierre Radisson works year round providing escorts for commercial shipping to ports cut-off by ice, scientific and search and rescue support, among other activities. Shot during the Pierre Radisson’s work on the Saguenay Fjord and Gulf of St. Lawrence in Quebec during February 2016, the film provides a window into a portion of the invisible labour underpinning the Canadian economy. The film brings the deep winter landscapes of coastal Quebec into dialogue with intensive industrial activity of ore shipments…

  • Film (Fill’em)

    This is a short black-and-white film in the Andy Warhol style. A male hooker (Dick Large) and a female stripper (Ima Chicken) live together in a squalid flat. The two argue and bicker about feminism, stripping, hooking, sex and their relationship. The filmmaker (referred to as “the little masochist”) is a client who is talked about and talked to as the characters formally address the camera which is recording their actions. Ima leaves; Ima returns for a reunion. Like real life, there is very little plot and only a hint of melodrama.

  • Farewell Transmission

    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation opened the doors of the CBK Transmitter Station in 1939 to serve the prairie region of Canada. “Farewell Transmission” is equal parts an indexical record of the demolition of CBK in 2015 and a subjective response to the residual media documenting the event. The building is framed with tension preceding its destruction: emulsion pulsated as if with decades of radio transmission, creating an unsettled eulogy for a cultural institution. Selected screenings: Dobra Festival Internacional de Cinema Experimental (Brazil, 2017); Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal, QC, 2017); Antimatter Media Art (Victoria, BC, 2017) Best Short Film, Saskatchewan…

  • 165708

    Shot entirely in 16mm black-and-white film using single-frame photography, “165708” employs in-camera techniques and chemical manipulation of processed film to produce an eidetic study of temporal elasticity. Techniques include flicker, time-lapse, light painting, stop motion, tinting, and toning. Combined with cycles of alternating exposed frames, these methods imbue the work with a rhythmic magnetism, apparent both in the tempo and the aesthetic of the images. Exploring the capacity of the medium to express various notions of time, the film begins with a woman looking out from the shoreline. This acts as a point of departure to disparate yet interconnected sequences…

  • Sky Room

    Someone is missing. Plants grow, but at what cost? Technology threatens and seduces as humans attempt to solve a mystery through telepathy and mirrors. Stainless steel and broken glass strewn about an intergalactic discotheque.  Commissioned by the Chicago Film Archives and made in collaboration with sound artist Brian Kirkbride, with footage and sound from the archive chopped, manipulated and arpeggiated into a fertile mix of anthem and narrative.

  • Film About a Woman Who

    “Film About a Woman Who” is a multi-layered composite of images, texts, music, and speech that deals with oppositions of emotional life set off against the appearances of everyday behaviour. The story of a passage across an unspecified length and order of time is sustained by the intermittent narration of two off-screen voices (a man’s and a woman’s, never clearly identified with the on-screen characters) that reads, in the present tense, discrete paragraphs about the experiences of someone referred to only as “she.” On screen two men and two women and, occasionally, a child “play out” the valences of their…