Film Format: 16mm

  • Nursing History

    “Nursing History” began as an inquiry into the nature of woman’s work, specifically the relationship between woman’s work as wives and mothers, and woman’s work as nurses. Having worked as a nurse for ten years, I decided to locate this inquiry historically, within my own past as represented in the home movies that, for the most part, my father had made and that stand as a record of our family’s collective history. From 1968-1984, 60 minutes worth of history, on Super 8 film, were recorded. Out of this footage there were forty minutes of weddings and in each case it…

  • O Panama

    O Panama’s elegant montage denotes a subject that is always on the verge of collapse. This episodic narrative opens spaces in the film where the audience can enter into the story with its own experiences.

  • ?O, Zoo! (The Making of a Fiction Film)

    Music by Tucker Zimmerman. “Philip Hoffman’s ‘?O, Zoo! (The Making of a Fiction Film)’ uses a diary format to skirt along the edge of someone else’s filmed narrative (Peter Greenaway’s ‘A Zed & Two Noughts’), and to trace the anatomy of pure image-making. ‘Pure’ is both the right and the wrong word: Hoffman is a man addicted to the hermetic thisness of filmed images, and plagued by the suspicion that these images, far from being pure, are really scabs torn away from the sores of the world. Found footage shot by his grandfather (a newsreel cameraman) is the starting point…

  • Oblivion

    “‘Oblivion’ successfully blends elements from both the poetic and diary modes. In the process, Tom Chomont has created one of the few truly erotic works of cinema.” – J.J. Murphy, “Reaching Toward Oblivion,” Millennium Film Journal No. 3 “Lost in the heat of a masturbatory revel, light pours off the skin of the filmmaker, finally coalescing in an associative montage that relates the body of his hustler/lover with the world outside. ‘Oblivion’ is very much a ‘home movie,’ enclosed between the four walls of a New York tenement, it describes a lover ‘s encounter.” – Mike Hoolboom

  • October Stranger

    “October Stranger” is a highly acclaimed drama about a young Ojibway Indian who must leave his youth behind on the reserve in Northern Ontario in order to pursue his writing career. It is a thoughful and gentle love story, full of fine poetry. Beautifully photographed on location near Sioux Lookout, it reveals modern life on the reserve with a rare depth and respect, as the old ways and the new come to terms with one another. It is the story of an artist finding his voice, and of a native gathering the courage to go “south” to the city.

  • Aura-Gone

    The film centres around one still shot that documents the movements of a city, which is seen in a multi-layered reflection of passing street action. ‘Aura-Gone’ is a serious, mature experimental film. The front of the hospital has the appearance of a giant mirror with double doors set into it. The effect of watching this extended single shot is to gradually discover the layers of real and reflected space occupied by moving people. It has a particularly fascinating complexity.” – John Locke, Cinema Canada  

  • Odyssey in August

    This comedy depicts a troubled young man’s journey towards self-knowledge, his attempts to find his place in the world. In the crazy spirit of Federico Fellini, “Odyssey in August” interweaves flashback, fantasy, and reality. The hero, August Dunlop, is trapped in a line up in a government waiting room; we follow August’s imaginative stream-of-consciousness through a series of ultra-fantastic places and situations.

  • Of Lines and Men… and Some Women

    In this film the artist-animator is shown in conflict with himself. His creations springing from his own befuddled unconscious begin to metamorphosize; initially in his absence and then in full view of their dismayed creator. The battle rages on as he tries to control the images flashing by on the screen. He wants to create something nice for a change. Something beautiful. But alas, his line goes wild and has ideas of its own. Luckily for us his demons, though charged with pain and anger at an unjust world, are also infused with humour, warmth and a great deal of…

  • Oh Dad!

    Using a unique animation technique, “Oh Dad!” is a boy’s account of a heated confrontation with his father over the issues of the nuclear arms race and various forms of pollution. The boy tells of his mistrust of adults and his frustration with the world that grown-ups are leaving his generation.

  • Oh Dad 1&2

    Oh Dad! Using a unique animation technique, “Oh Dad!” is a boy’s account of a heated confrontation with his father over the issues of the nuclear arms race and various forms of pollution. The boy tells of his mistrust of adults and his frustration with the world that grown-ups are leaving his generation. Oh Dad II In this continuation of “Oh Dad!,” a young boy expresses his deep concern about environmental issues in his diary. Arguing with his father, the boy tries to convince him that although he is younger, he has serious opinions. He talks about national security, militarization,…