Film Format: 16mm

  • Double

    A two-screen projection exploring the alternate and simultaneous interplay of light and dark, silence and sound. Composed by optically manipulating abstract hand-painted film. Complimented by a haunting soundtrack by David McKenzie in which the human voice was digitally processed to reflect the movements of light on the film surface.

  • Selections

    Sam, a young black man, is trapped inside a wooden cube, and is faced with the challenge of finding a way out. He reflects upon two projected memories from his past, and explores a mysterious bar code that appears on the cube wall. He finds himself struggling against a system of machines whose only goal is to manufacture racial profiles.

  • filth

    The housecall in “Filth” doesn’t go quite as planned when a simple cleaning job becomes a nightmare. A pixilated tale which combines both the action in the film and the action on the film.

  • ten thousand dreams

    I have no memories from that time… before kindergarten, before solid food, before any idea of what lay ahead. The images were shot a few hours after my baby boy had traversed the great divide between the warm rumbling universe of his mother’s womb and the morning light of our bed. (JP)

  • Passages

    A winter-time journey from Switzerland to Turkey provides a poetic context for reflection. From the bustle of old Constantinople to the deserted Greek and Roman ruins strewn across the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts – quiet observations of past and present, tradition and modernity, innocence and beauty converge to create a meditative space for considering the impermanence of civilization. Shot in black-and-white, the images were processed by hand and edited over a two-year period.

  • Christ Mass Sex Dance

    This work, composed of six rolls of superimposed images set to Jim Tenney’s electronic music track “Blue Suede,” is a celebration of the balletic restraints of adolescent sexuality – shaped (in this instance) by “The Nutcracker Suite” by Tchaikovsky as well as the gristly roots of Elvis Presley.

  • Fire #3

    A hand-processed silent film created on a bitterly cruel winter evening. In a freezing bathroom with a single candle and a roll of very old 3 A.S.A. print stock, it became – through the alchemy of light, silver and colour chemistry – a hazy, abstract prayer to the warmth of the sun.

  • Beati Mundo Corde

    The dark tale of a dark ritual. Hand-processed and optically printed, it is an excavation of the emotional state of a young boy sent away to boarding school.

  • nine + 20

    An extremely simple portrait of one of the most humble and deeply spirited people I’ve ever known. Trained in Ireland as a welder, Michael Dolan preferred dancing so he dropped the torch, put on a black suit and began performing internationally with LaLaLa Human Steps. He is now a member of the Volksopera in Vienna.

  • 427 & 401

    I noticed this graveyard in 1989 when I was commuting to a short-lived post-Bachelor of Commerce suit job in Mississauga. Its presence in the landscape was as absurd as the situation that I faced at work – bound on all sides by expressways and airports, it did not belong. Years later, I returned to pay my respects. All the lab work was done at home. The negative was hand-processed, and the print is an original that I made frame-by-frame on an optical printer and then hand-processed. (JP)