Film Format: 16mm

  • landing

    Shot at Bate Island in Ottawa, landing is made from hand-processed B&W 16 mm film hand-coloured with organic and photochemical tones, video and found sound. landing examines moments of respite in between flight and movement.

  • souvenir

    souvenir is made from hand-processed B&W 16 mm film hand-coloured with photochemical toners, and incorporates found sound. souvenir examines the evanescence of memory and the process of forgetting.

  • Before Me

    An incomplete family story leads the filmmaker on a quest to find her mother in the British archives. The discovery of a photograph unearths a story of upheaval, desolation, and ultimately, transformation. A lament for a mother whose life was lost, then found, in the dust of the archive.

  • Quack Quack

    Quack Quack is a moving image collage that utilizes magazine cut-outs from porn magazines and found footage. Multiple analogue techniques such as contact printing, optical printing, mordançage, mono-flex, chromo-flex, and hand processing help convey the over-stimulation of media; reverting an intangible concept into a tactile form. These images meshed together allude to the negative effects of media fetishization that feed into incel culture and violence against women.

  • Green Dream

    In “Green Dream”, Josephine Massarella has infused her vibrant, impressionistic images of nature with the spirit of the goddess Artemis. Evocative and abstract, “Green Dream” relies on a wide range of experimental techniques, including pixilation, optical printing, and manipulated motion to achieve a dreamlike state where the relevance of beauty and the irrelevance of use can be contemplated. Reminiscent of the work of French experimental filmmaker Rose Lawder, “Green Dream” confronts modern overdevelopment with overpowering life forces.

  • Bye Bye Now

    When people wave hello to the person behind the camera in home movies they seem aware of waving hello to a future viewer. Yet, upon viewing, the very gesture (re)presents a recurring good-bye to a fleeting moment. This film is an homage to the man behind the camera in these personal 8mm family archives, my father, who left me this heritage beyond mortality in the traces of past lives. — Louise Bourque Review : “BYE BYE NOW is cruel. A movie traumatized by time, which is the passing of time and all that inhabits it. Movies play into that, their…

  • touch

    touch (ing), —(ed): Feel, move, affect, be in contact, tangent to, in relation; injure slightly; slightly crazy “My window tonight casts light out onto the snow, I cast from my eye a glance, a touchless touch…” Jorie Graham, “To 2040” We look, we touch, we make connections sometimes, and sometimes we proceed by groping blindly forward… Note that “touch and “touch : BE/longing” are companion pieces. They may be shown individually; or one after the other; or together simultaneously side by side. One aspect of these works for me was the division of all digital video in one and all…

  • Green Flag, The

    Three-strip Technicolour type separation-printing (“subtractive”), which has archival as well as artistic potential. A black-and-white intermediate was made for each of the three emulsion layers (cyan, magenta, yellow) in an old auto-racing documentary; the exciting scene is repeated to show six basic colour variations in which the green flag and grass turn purple, orange, red, and blue.

  • Maya at 24

    Lynne Sachs films her daughter Maya in 16mm black and white film, at ages 6, 16 and 24. At each iteration, Maya runs around her mother, in a circle – clockwise – as if propelling herself in the same direction as time, forward, on celluloid at 24 frames per second. Conscious of the strange simultaneous temporal landscape that only film can convey, we watch Maya in motion at each distinct age.

  • Fragmentasia

    An exploration of the sense of self, through kaleidoscopic imagery, distorted sounds, and a flurry of colours. Fragmentasia is a self-reflexive short, shot on 16mm and Super8, using animation techniques, prisms, and mirrors, to examine the outward self versus the internal self.