Film Format: 16mm

  • Quiver

    A requiem for death and a memoir of pain, where the line between consent and assault is as blurred as the line between the characters’ past and present. “Quiver” is a disturbing journey into the psyche of one man’s memory. It is a mirage of sexual violence in the midst of AIDS, love, regret and exoneration.

  • Hi I’m Steve

    Dissatisfied with his sex life, Steve decides he’ll give gay telephone dating a try. Although he never seems to find the right person, he does discover a new fetish at the core of his sexual being.

  • Eulogy / Obverse

    A filmmaker confronts his own sense of responsibility based on images he has created. AWARDS 1999 Regina Film and Video Competition: Best Experimental, Best Critical Thought, Best Overall 1999 Niagara Film and Video Competition: Best Experimental 1999 Montreal World Film Festival: Best Experimental 1999 TVO Telefest Competition: Jay Scott Award for Best Overall Production, Best Experimental 2000 Ann Arbor Film Festival: Honorable Mention 2000 Black Maria Film Festival: Honorable Mention ADDITIONAL SCREENINGS 2000 Cinematheque Ontario, Jackman Hall 2000 Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival 2000 Images Festival of Independent Film and Video 2000 Millennium Film Workshop 2000 BBC British Short…

  • Quickest Way to a Man’s Heart

    In the dark hours before dawn, Yorgi brings home a disco queen in boogie woogie platforms and a sequin gown. She’s a pushy bottom but he’s a comfortable top. There’s something wrong, though, she’s a little too resistant. Is she a priss queen? Did someone spill ice down her g-string? Or is she an imposter? When the truth comes out, Benny and Yorgi have a lot more to say to each other than just “Swordfish”!

  • Sparklehorse

    With “Sparklehorse”, Gariné Torossian returns to the collage style of filmmaking explored in her earlier films, “Visions,” “Girl From Moush,” and “Drowning In Flames.” “Sparklehorse” subtly conveys, with characteristic poetry, the ways in which people communicate with and value each other in a world of spiralling meditation. The film is divided into three distinct sections: “Happy Man,” “Good Morning Spider” and “Hundreds of Sparrows.” “Happy Man” suggests a friendship conducted always at a distance – all of the images are presented using formal distancing techniques such as colour, collage and printing. At the same time the soundtrack combines a “repressed”…

  • Two Pictures

    Canada’s king of visual alchemy teams up with France’s mistress of minimalism to fashion a photo-based work of cinematic abstraction. Tactile and textured, luscious and luminescent, “Two Pictures” is a singular statement embodying a powerful dichotomy. This is a film that is simultaneously about nothing and about everything.

  • Boulder Blues and Pearls and…

    Peripheral envisionment of daily life as the mind has it – i.e. a terrifying ecstasy of (hand-painted) synapting nerve ends back-firing from thought’s grip of life. Music by Rick Corrigan.

  • Miracle Grow

    “Miracle Grow” is a personal piece with elements of a home movie. Originally shot in Mini DV, edited and transferred to film without leaving the digital realm, the film is an inventory of a growing baby as he struggles to gain mastery of his limbs. As the father, the filmmaker attempts to insert himself within this well-worn and taboo subject and redefine it. As in his other works, the images are composed and structured to lead us within other realms of thought. With Etienne Z. Grenier and Mary Zebell.

  • Surface Tension #2

    This film was partly shot in Kinemacolor, a process which was used in 1915 to obtain fairly illusionistic colors from black and white films by filming and projecting them through synchronized red and green filters.

  • Short Shave

    Vanity. Had a beard. Appearance (looks). Looking. Disappearance act. Hand-made fades and zooms but camera made shave. Camerazor. Handsome. Tired. Walking Woman. My worst film. (Michael Snow)