Film Format: 16mm

  • Flying without Wings, Propellers or Jets

    Using found footage, this portrait of self falls in from somewhere over the moon, turns childhood around, pushes through with tunes of a time, and lands in wild fields of plenty.

  • Underfoot & Overstory

    The Friends of Hickory Hill Park work to protect nearly 200 acres of unique urban parkland in Iowa City, IA. The organization’s mission statement must be produced, the inaugural calendar approaches. Nature images run parallel, collide and drift beside the demands of group writing and open space. “A film at once playful and thoughtful, visually deep and linguistically complex (and funny!). ‘Under Foot & Overstory’ weaves together a commmitment to activism with a love of looking at the natural world. The Friends of Hickory Hill Park, an Iowa City-based environmental group, work to protect a unique urban space and to…

  • nostalgia (april 2001 to present)

    “The picture of the world that’s presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality…” – Noam Chomsky “In a colour fest of broken emulsions, the artist reconvenes a suite of feel good 50s adverts for a better life. A young boy on a bicycle, a blonde smiler on a tricycle, two men at a clothesline, the crisp border of neighborhood lawns appearing as if no one had ever set foot on them. The world is blank and the first line I lay across it is perfect, and then the second marks an intersection and the town is…

  • distance between here and there, the

    Traveling through an invented landscape… the space between here and there. “Battle grounds her travel films not so much in place as in time. ‘the distance between here and there’ is one of her most abstract, rigorous and beautiful engagements with duration… In Battle’s film, it is between here and there, the interval between two points, that marks the experience of travel. The film is able to powerfully evoke that indefinite liminal nowhere, the feeling of being dislocated and in movement.” – Janine Marchessault “An abstract film made by applying colour tape directly onto emulsion and exposing it to light.…

  • migration

    A late summer prairie storm as heard from above… someplace between this atmosphere and the next…

  • Tabula Rasa

    “Revisiting footage he shot more than ten years ago in an American high school, Vincent Grenier combines deftly manipulated and layered images with oblique commentaries delivered by students and instructors. The socializing process of education is made visible in the architecture, surfaces and colours of the school, ‘in the ambiguous quality of appearances so assiduously cultivated by institutions’ (Grenier).” – Images Festival, 2005 Initial footage shot with the helpof a production grant from the Canada Council. Selected screenings & awards: Jury’s Citation (2nd Prize), Black Maria Film & Video Festival; 2nd Prize, Media City 11, Windsor, Ontario; Views from the…

  • Queers on the Verge: Experimental Works for Educational Environments

    Available for purchase in the CFMDC Shop: https://www.cfmdc.org/shop. This compilation brings together challenging and innovative film and video works that explore lesbian/gay/bi/trans culture by both Queer pioneers and emerging makers. It covers a broad range of subject matter including gender and sexual identity, social dynamics, coming out, the impact of AIDS, and Queer youth culture. “Queers on the Verge… is an excellent compilation of short subjects featuring contemporary gay, lesbian, and transgender themes. This DVD is highly recommended and will be a great catalyst for discussion in high school and colleges, not just to gay audiences. It should be accessible…

  • Made By Hand: Experimental Works for Educational Environments

    Available for purchase in the CFMDC Shop: https://www.cfmdc.org/shop. In response to an increasingly technological world, there has been an explosion in the number of “handmade” films – those created by working directly with the material of the film. This compilation showcases recent works that use a range of handmade and artisanal techniques, including photograms, hand-processing, cameraless animation and collage. “Well-crafted and entertaining, this collection is an excellent presentation of short abstract films. Repeated imagery, animation, home movies, playful use of color, photograms, dance, and different light effects provide both fanciful and introspective moments of sheer film appreciation. These films would…

  • Pierre Mercure 1927-1966

    Dedicated to the Canadian composer Pierre Mercure, the film is based on the continual repetition of very few sequences. The dominant sequence invovles a funeral. Available on DVD on “Charles Gagnon: 4 Films.”

  • Material Incidents: A Collection of Digital Videos

    MATERIAL INCIDENTS is a DVD compilation of work featuring the following titles: TABULA RASA (1993-2004) 7:30 min. Filmed in a South Bronx high-school, “Tabula Rasa” explores the ambiguousness of appearances cultivated by institutions, the clues that tell the history of objects, colours, textures, architecture and, ultimately, psychological states. Second Prize, Media City 11; Jury’s Citation, Black Maria Festival HERE (2002) 7:00 min. “Here” plays as some form of synthetic/organic haiku or renga (Japanese linked poetry), linking semblance to semblance working with the primal power and suggestiveness of transient colours. Gold for Best Experimental Film, New York Film Expo COLOR STUDY…