Film Format: 16mm

  • Drawn and Quartered

    Regular 8mm footage enlarged to 16mm (literally a “drawn and quartered image”). A male form and a female form exist in their own private domains, separated by a barrier. Only for a moment does the one intrude upon the pictorial space of the other. An experiment in form/content relationships that are peculiar to the medium. “Images of a male form (on the left) and a female form (right) exist in their own private domains, separated by a barrier. Only for a moment does the one intrude upon the pictorial space of the other.” – Albert Kilchesty, LA Filmforum San Francisco…

  • Still Life with Woman and Four Objects

    A film portrait that falls somewhere between a painting and a prose poem, a look at a woman’s daily routines and thoughts via an exploration of her as a “character”. By interweaving threads of history and fiction, the film is also a tribute to a real woman – Emma Goldman. Int’l Premiere: Torino Film Festival, Italy.

  • fruit machine

    Mixing fact and fiction, this film tells the story of Dr. F.R. Wake and his bizarre creation, which became known as “the fruit machine.” In the 1960s, Wake was hired by the Canadian government to devise a series of tests that would expose homosexuals working in the civil service. This modern retelling reveals that Wake may have had a few secrets of his own.

  • ARIES

    A single window frame; a portal. As the circular nature of time begins to reveal itself, a new decade begins.

  • Congress

    Mediated under flight and wing, possible collective memories are represented through a prism of vast tundra landscapes, a wrecked 19th century paddleboat, and ancient lichen fields. Time, place and history become nostalgic remnants from the Yukon Territory.

  • A to Z

    A cross-hatched family fantasy about nocturnal furniture love. Two chairs fuck.

  • Anticipation of the Night

    The daylight shadow of a man in its movement evokes lights in the night. A rose bowl held in hand reflects both sun and moon-like illumination. The opening of a doorway onto trees anticipates the twilight into the night. A child is born on the lawn, born of water with its promissory rainbow, and the wild rose. It becomes the moon and the source of all light. Lights of the night become young children playing a circular game. The moon moves over a pillared temple to which all lights return. There is seen the sleep of innocents in their animal…

  • Full Moon Darkness

    A painful but enlightening film on the controversial subject of mental illness – or more particularly, the myth of mental illness. It is a frightening piece of work in that it asks us to assume responsibility for ourselves, our actions. How, after listening to Dr. Thomas Szasz, can we blame someone else anymore? Equally frightening is the realization that mental illness could touch our lives, not just someone else’s. Without attempting to give an answer, “Full Moon Darkness” raises many valid questions – questions we should ask ourselves at least once.

  • Damaged

    “A retrospective based on an introspective vision, this stream of still pictures, unfolding to the rhythm of the voice-over (delivered by Steve Reinke), portrays a man who visually exposes his psychological “faults.” Recounting eighteen decisive moments in his life, and dissecting both his genetic and cultural heritage, the work delimits a transitory space in which each image crystallizes one of these indistinct marking points. Bringing together a number of collectively shared experiences, Damaged presents a series of significant events — some pleasant, others less so — evincing the complexity of the stages of life and offering models of childhood, sexuality…

  • Originate and Recompile

    In 1962 Ernesto De Martino travelled to the South of Italy for his ethnographic research and shot “La Taranta”. A study around women who were poisoned by a Trantula bite while harvesting in the fields. The remedy against the deadly poison was a folk dance called Taranta. The women danced the poison out of their bodies with the help of local musicians and priests. Studies around this phenomenon have highlighted that, in the majority of cases, these women were suffering severe mental illness and hysteria due to sexual abuse and poverty. In present-day Italy a similar dynamic has resurfaced, uncovering…