Film Format: 16mm

  • Gloria!

    In “Gloria!” Frampton juxtaposes 19th-century concerns with contemporary forms through the interfacing of a work of early cinema with a videographic display of textual material. These two formal components (the film and the texts) in turn relate to a 19th-century figure, Hollis’ maternal grandmother, and to a 20th-century one, Frampton himself. In attempting to recapture their relationship, “Gloria!” becomes a somewhat comic, often touching meditation on death, memory, and the power of image, music, and text to resurrect that past.

  • Still Got It?!

    After 3 years out of the modeling industry and back in school, Adam wonders: “Have I still got it?” Ignoring the not-so-subtle warnings from his friends, our endearingly oblivious protagonist confidently decides to give modelling another shot and sets up a meeting with an agency. What follows is a series of failures, wake-up calls, and a surprising new path of self-discovery.

  • Ritual of Bowls

    Experimental film: Woman performs ritual of bowls.

  • MY FRIEND VINCE

    Vince is a street hustler. I’m the friend. Or am I? Set in raw, downtown Toronto in the early ’70’s, and co-directed by the late Howard Alk (The Murder of Fred Hampton, American Revolution II, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Alk) The film explores the question of friendship in Vince’s world, a world built on cheating and lying, and then compares relationships formed in that world with relationships influenced by film making.

  • MAN MADE

    MAN MADE, a repurposed narrative of a boy who gets introduced to the wonders of life by a beautiful shining trumpet. But the struggle to be oneself has only begun. Utilizing found 16mm footage and both digital and analog manipulation techniques, Mikkola pierces conventional masculinity with a transformative queer gaze.

  • Minus Twenty

    A cold storage worker’s job follows him around.

  • Good Citizen: Betty Baker

    ‘Good Citizen: Betty Baker’ follows a civic-minded housewife as she tracks the missing Prince Phillip. This madcap chase takes our heroine Betty from our neighbour’s trash, to a strangely exciting all-girls bar, to the arms of a handsome lady golfer. Cherry pie never looked so good.

  • Governor, The

    On July 4, 1976 I and my camera toured the state of Colorado with governor Richard D. Lamm, as he travelled in parades with his children, appeared at dinners, lectured, etc. On July 20, I spent the morning in his office in the state capitol and the afternoon with him and his wife in a television studio, then with Mrs. Lamm greeting guests to the governor’s mansion and finally with Governor Lamm in his office again. These two days of photography took me exactly one year to edit into a film which wove itself thru multiple superimpositions into a study…

  • Upwards Tide

    A magical lunar reverie filmed over four years on the days and nights of the full moon, this shimmering moving-image poem fluidly combines images of the saltwater Loch Carron in the Scottish Highlands and leafy Viennese forests. The two locations blur and bleed into each other, just as the film itself (shot on gloriously outdated analogue stock) wanders freely among human bodies and bodies of water. Transcendent, transfiguring, transformative. (Neil Young)

  • Grace Eternal

    Neil Burns’ experimental drama offers a poignant, pixillated, pop art account of disconnection, death, and digital immortality. Suppose you died – and nobody noticed?