Film Format: 16mm

  • Help! I’m Stranded…

    The filmmaker, stranded in a motel room, animates texture rubbings of items that are available, such as matchbooks and bathroom tiles – complementing her drawings with the natural sounds of the rubbing process, doors opening, and water dripping. “The audience is treated to rather simple images seen in a new light” (Grand Rapids Press).

  • Abgad Hawaz

    Robin Riad’s short hand-drawn analogue film ostensibly teaches the pronunciation of the Arabic Alphabet in 28 easy steps. In actuality, the hand-drawn letters were printed using a laser jet printer onto the optical soundtrack of 16mm film, and what you hear in the film is the projector reading the letters, and interpreting them into sound. Riad uses humour to play with and sit with her mother tongue, offering a ‘false’ lesson in pronunciation. A response to a digital form of anti-Arab hate that Riad witnessed online coming out of the genocide in Gaza, Abgad Hawaz is a way for her…

  • Brisbane River

    A timelapse of the Brisbane River. Made in residency at Container, Brisbane and nanolab, Daylesford.

  • Go Between

    Looking down at the Brisbane River–a play of masking and superimpositions. Sound by Samuel La France. Made in residency at Container, Brisbane and nanolab, Daylesford.

  • Her Soil Is Gold

    “Cause and effect… result of thousands of years of looting and pillage… people remained steadfast…” From the banks of the Nile and the pyramids through modern-day Cairo, the film creates a sense of the timelessness of Egypt which climaxes on a tourist boat in the shimmering heat of the Red Sea. Optically printed, a manipulation of image, time, colour, and subtle light. A subtle statement on white, middle-class values.

  • Astrov at the Lemonade Stand

    In the aftermath of a medical malpractice trial, Dr. Astrov’s tragic day takes a bizarre turn when he encounters two 11-year old girlbosses running a lemonade stand.

  • Her Violet Garden

    Through painful and nostalgic recollections, a young refugee woman tries to come to terms with the losses of war, her shattered life, and the alienation between her and her mother. “…It is with subtlety and a touch of magic that Irena Joannides manages to delve into this woman’s inner world, unfolding in front of the viewer’s eyes her protagonist’s nostalgia, her most intimate thoughts and desires, which recount lost persons and places.” – Ricardo Lopes, Cine-Epiloge

  • Heroes: A Transformation Film

    The filmmaker asked three friends to tell their stories of ordinary heroism to the camera. Sarah, Olga, and Martha talk about what was the hardest time in their lives, how each got through that time, and what she learned that she can share with others.

  • Serene Hues

    Serene Hues, hand-processed, solarized, tinted, and toned, is a meditative journey into the tranquility and vibrant beauty of nature. The surprising and unexpected images created through process-driven filmmaking, which is improvisational and interactive, embody the wabi-sabi aesthetic of impermanence, incompleteness, and imperfection, emphasizing the creative process of producing the work.

  • My Canada Train Journey

    50-plus years after a memorable overnight Canadian train ride, Sandy McLennan boards regional and remote lines, with main line and public transit between them. This time shooting Double 8mm film, the same format he fell in love with while screening family home movies just for himself. What was he thinking?