Film Format: 16mm

  • Skyscraper Film

    Can I use the film strip structure as an architectural element? Is it possible to use the celluloid from the film as a cement? Can these skyscrapers be turned into something else? Can solid lines blend into sensual, natural curves? Can I melt skyscrapers? Skyscraper Film was created to try to give a visual answer to these questions, arising from the artist’s relation to urban maps of various locations and their respective skylines, populated by imposing skyscrapers and reinforced concrete panoramas: Quebec, Kingston (Canada), Maryland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore (USA) etc. Cities are presented to us as an abstract handmade camera-less collage,…

  • Negative / Positive Film

    Negative / Positive Film is a hand-made, camera-less collage film composed of layers of erotic 16mm films from the 1920s, 1940s, and 1970s, intermingled with nature documentaries and layers of organic materials. This visual abstraction merges together both positive black-and-white film and its negative black-and-white counterpart – on the same film base. This allows the film to exist in two versions, one positive and, the other negative. The film is an abstract remediation of female bodies dislodged from their original erotic context and ripped away from their male co-protagonists. The man is removed from the picture, while the female body…

  • Touch Chinatown

    Impressions of San Francisco’s Chinatown come to life through clear tape and historical imagery.

  • Out of Sink

    Spectres of the kitchen return.

  • Harris Project, The

    In 1996, four young filmmakers graduate from post-secondary studies to find a provincial government that has implemented a “Common Sense Revolution.” This film follows the filmmakers’ personal struggles as they try to complete a low-budget, short documentary about a right wing governmental plan that will forever change the economic landscape of Ontario.

  • Crushed Between Ocean and Sky

    An unexpected event on a tall ship headed for Antarctica incites passengers to reflect on life, death, adventure and irony against the vast ocean backdrop. Crushed Between Ocean and Sky speaks to the transcendence of exploring new places, the power of nature and life’s brutal tendency to catch us off guard.

  • Research Garden: A Compendium of Lost Moments

    Full of lush shapes and vivid hues, this film loop was handcrafted using the techniques of phytography and optical printing. Raw visuals drawn from the artist’s garden over a period of two years bathe everything and everyone and confront us with silence. Vibrant leaf-prints, fingerprints, scratches and tape marks on celluloid work with the various phytographic offspring to evoke human entanglements with nature. With every touch of the hand or lamplight, these botanical image-traces are simultaneously illuminated and deteriorated. (text by Lesley Loksi Chan from the curatorial notes from Research garden: a compendium of lost moments)

  • Harrowing, The

    A hand-painted film which has been photographically step-printed to create varieties of tempo in mimic of sparking and molten rock. The recurrent centrality of certain painted forms, and the exploding magma-like flickering of all that surrounds the forms, suggests a harrowing process. Note: Must be rented with “Tryst Haunt.” Rental price includes both films.

  • Harrowing, The and Tryst Haunt

    Two separate films on one reel which must be rented together. Please see individual titles for descriptions.

  • Wild About Ari

    “Wild About Ari” concerns Sophie, a young Greek woman, who rejects her family through an academic appreciation of Aristotle, while Tom, a young white romantic, pursues his desire to become black. The Toronto Festival of Festival programmers described the film as a “bent, witty drama… that answers all the big questions” on ethnic identity and cultural appropriation. “Scripted with the style and directed with precision”… “Wild about Ari” hopes to win audiences with its fresh insight, humour and eccentric characters. NOW Magazine cites: “Demas’ deft dialogue, which tweaks cultural stereotypes, makes this movie a treat.”