Film Format: 16mm

  • Sammy

    Toronto, July 27, 2013, shortly after midnight. Sammy Yatim is standing inside an empty streetcar, a small knife in his right hand. A Toronto Police officer will shoot him dead. From a mixture of gunpowder, blood and acrimony: the portrait of a boy who didn’t have to die.

  • On A Clear Day You Can See The Revolution From Here

    An expansive journey through the Kazakh steppe, On A Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here excavates layers of myth, history and geology to reveal the shifting fault lines between a government, its people and their land. The film brings into focus Kazakhstan’s search for a post-Soviet identity and a state-sponsored programme of cultural production that on the one hand connects back to the ancient folklore and belief systems of the Silk Road, while on the other, seeks to embrace the values of Western capitalism. Taking an experimental documentary form, On A Clear Day provides a meditative faux…

  • Before After Again

    In a series of reflections and reversals, this dual-projector film follows the flow of carbon from mountains to sea, as it is transformed from forest ecosystem into industrial landscape, and back again. Commissioned for the End of the World project by Iris Film Collective and funded by the Canada Arts Council. Although its interpretation was left entirely to us, the project title made reference to the West Coast as the edge or end of Canada; to global concerns over the compromised and fragile state of the planet; and to the often predicted “end of film”. To link the final films…

  • Night Visions

    Night Visions developed as a conversation about psychic energy, sleep cycles and synaesthesia. The result is a haunting spell of colour and rhythm.

  • Prowling By Night

    Gwendolyn’s film Prowling By Night documents the harassment faced by sex trade workers in their crusade to promote safe sex. The film is made with the active participation of 21 prostitutes in Toronto’s Parkdale area.

  • When We Are Nothing Left

    A minimalist film and study about time, infinity and the life cycle, created in the spirit of William Blake.

  • Animal Bridge U-3033

    Animal bridge is an experimental nature documentary about a green bridge above motor highway. Animal Bridge U-3033 is about the parallel realities of humans and wild animals. It’s filmed during a year on a bridge above motor highway. These bridges are architecturally engrossing structures, addressed only to the nature, allowing animals to cross the highway. The built environment meets the untouched nature in this narrow strip of urban forest. The 35mm film sequences shot with an old camera create contrast with a mysterious reality captured by trail cameras.

  • Froglight

    FROGLIGHT is a film about having faith in the unknown. “…glowing, shimmering, wow – and sentiments to or rather thinking, questioning, wondering… wondering, beautiful.” – Barbara Sternberg (Toronto filmmaker) “A shimmering black-and-white reflection of ineffable and wondrous experience.” – Jim Sinclair (Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver) Award: Honourable Mention, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2000. DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT: In FROGLIGHT, poetic voice-over narration is woven with images and sounds from the natural landscape to engage viewers’ imaginations. As a result of allowing elements to come magically together in the creative process, the film has an intangible sensibility that echoes the experience of trying to…

  • Granular Film – Beirut

    Reminiscence of a trip in Beirut. The sea. the palm trees, the buildings melt when my eyelids began to close. My memories now have a separate life of their own.

  • H2T

    Shot on several types of film (16 mm and Super 8 format), ranging from handmade film emulsion to expired films, H2T takes place in the mighty Hotel2Tango Montreal recording studio. The film is a chemical composition where light meets the effervescence and creativity of the band Land of Kush (Constellation Records) during the making of their latest album, The Big Mango (2013). Filming of the recording session during rehearsals and breaks, the picture is just as ephemeral as the musicians’ movements. H2T reflects on the performative aspect specific to experimental film and musical performance.