Film Format: 16mm

  • Bricolage

    A film which deals with aspects of male and female representation, spatial and temporal dislocation, and notions of framing and containment.

  • West Coast Reduction

    Shot during a particularly dark downtown east side December, this was originally supposed to be part of a Cineworks Omnibus project. Due to very sad and unfortunate circumstances the project was derailed, and I had to finish it on my own. It is dedicated to Eva Madden. (JP)

  • Remembrance

    I found this poem at a defunct mental hospital while working on a pathetic TV show … I was in a relationship that was falling apart … I moved to Montreal and spent a lot of time in a graveyard meditating. (John Price)

  • Wreck / Nation

    Two films in one. Wreck: “I passed the wreck not long after crossing into Saskatchewan. Day 3, alone, driving west towards Vancouver. On the other side of the highway, a twisted mess of iron and steel. Rail cars like beached whales strewn arbitrarily in heaps rupturing the perspective symmetry of the endless prairie. At once an allusion to the fallibility of industrialization and modernity. I felt after it had flashed past the windscreen, that there were significations here that reached far deeper than this immediate literal interpretation. Half an hour after I had watched the image recede completely into the…

  • View Never Changes, The

    Seething grain and swirling textures of Super 8 processed in a pail. Film as memory … an elaborate reconstruction perpetually shifting through the course of time. And so is this … a personal recollection of the intensity of what it may have been like to be a child. “Carefully composed as both a gentle and highly critical portrait of the filmmaker’s relationship with his father, this beautifully hand-processed film manages to offer a balanced study heavy with the weight of family history and family ties.” – Alex Mackenzie

  • Outlet

    The first time using outdated 20-year film stock. The first roll I was to process by hand. It was an election year … winter time in Vancouver … sitting in my kitchen … I don’t remember the sun coming out again until March. (John Price)

  • Dread

    A sequence of rawly chewed images, framed by the writing of Dr. R.D Laing.

  • Bridal Shower, The

    A painfully funny, painfully realistic enactment of one of the most bizarre social customs ever to have evolved as the “most wonderful day” in any girl’s life. Surely nobody seeing this film can ever attend a bridal shower again. Or maybe the custom will have a glorious revival based solely on its strength.

  • Born to Shop (L’Age d’mall)

    Live action and animation with biting commentary on the religion of rampant consumerism.

  • Wilma’s Sacrifice

    This film tells the tale of young Wilma’s (Kat Lanteigne) romantic escapades with Christine (Jen Wilson) a woman from the “outside” world. Surrealistically set in the 1950s, the town of Eden is a place where the air is haunted with silence. Wilma has to choose whether to redeem herself in the eyes of her religiously obsessed brother James (Mar Andersons), her neurotic chain-smoking Mother (Carole McCormick), and her opprobrious Father (David Fredericks), or escape Eden, a place where one can never feel quite clean enough.