Film Format: 16mm

  • Fable: I Want the World, Clean

    “Todd’s poetic documentary excavates the history of a family home that has been passed down five generations. It uncovers a sort of violence done in the course of carving up the land and trying to purify one’s family histories.” – Chris Gehman, Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, 2001

  • Persian Series 6 – 12

    In the spirit of the Roman, Arabic, Egyptian and Babylonian Series, these hand-painted films attempt to imagine the kind of Persian visual thinking which created their calligraphy, miniatures and aesthetic designs in general. Persian Series #6 begins with what appears to be dried red and yellow rose petals, suddenly shot-through with blue, which causes a shift to violets and greens. This mash of colors thickens and is scored by white, and then black, calligraphic lines, which are “echoed” in all previous floral colors whose “dance” seems to turn clock-wise and “explode” into fiery reds. Persian Series #7: very pale, thin,…

  • God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him, The

    This film of single-strand photography begins with the “fire” of reflective light on water and on the barest inference of a ship. Throughout, the interwoven play of light and water tell the inferred “tale” of the film through rhythm and tempo, through visible textures and forms in gradual evolution, through resultant “moods” generated by these modes of making, and then, by the increasingly distant boat images, birds, animals, fleeting silhouettes of people and their artifacts, flotsam and jetsam of the sea-dead, as well as (near end, and almost as at a funeral) flowers in bloom, swallowed by darkness midst the…

  • Preludes 7 – 12

    This is a collection of 6 hand-painted sections interspersed with black leader – which has been and will ONLY be shown in this form and under this title. The first is what I call “plein-aire abstract” inasmuch as I am, while making the film, observing specific surroundings (primarily Vancouver Island, mostly the city of Victoria) but am painting the reactions of my internal optic system affected by external scenes, only occasionally (and obliquely) identifiable. The ocean, the trees, the varieties of cityscape and landscape assert themselves as “pictures” (there is even a mirror image of a neon bar sign which…

  • Hand Job

    A lonely figure walks to a private screening room. What he is getting excited about is not what it may appear. “Hand Job” is a hand-processed, manipulated, and toned film that shows the filmmaker’s true love for the medium.

  • Bon Bon

    A candyland town kicks up its sugar heels for a midday parad

  • Coming to Terms

    Damian sinks into desperation as he realizes that both he and his family have an arduous journey ahead if they are to heal old wounds and come to terms with his dawning sexuality.

  • Traces

    Stunning hand-tinted imagery intermingles with a love letter to the artist’s departed dog Mica. Bittersweet as any country song, so familiar you swear you’ve heard it before – but it’s just your heart breaking, worn and sure.

  • Budworks

    Aerial insecticide spraying of forests is the most ignored environmental problem in North America today. In Canada, every province east of Saskatchewan, with the exception of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, sprays annually to control the spruce budworm. New Brunswick forests have been sprayed since 1952, longer than anywhere else in the world. “Budworks” investigates the controversy surrounding the spraying and goes directly to the people who are involved.

  • Let Me Start by Saying

    A gay man has fallen in love with a woman; she has gone away, and the image of her face haunts him. Desperately, he tries to come up with a way to be close to her again.