Film Format: 35mm

  • Midnight Matinee

    A stop-motion animated film that illustrates the artistic journey of a capricious camera and the personal discovery of its true potential. The camera character discovers a magical flash, which to its surprise can bring any inanimate object to life. Using the newly found magical wand the camera character acts as a movie making maestro by recruiting objects in the house as cast and crew before creating a film. Saturated with stunning visuals and supported by a swinging score, “Midnight Matinee” is sure to stimulate the senses.

  • Fore-and-Aft

    “Fore-and-Aft” was created by the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada – site of the highest tides in the world. Images of the tides are married with celluloid that was buried in the sea bed, and dragged through the ocean behind a boat. Physically exposing film to the motion and light of the sea recorded tactile evidence of the repetition and changes wrought by tide cycles.

  • Mean

    “Mean” is a diptych made from Super 8 film and old video footage. The pun of the title comes from the extra levels of “meaning” we attach to nation, religion, sports teams, and even to art genres like film and video. The hockey players were shot in Super 8 off a TV set and then subjected to cheap and crude “toy-like” effects – the result seems to capture the tragicomic nature of hockey fights (and of artists arguing). With the fans, the favourite kind of hockey fight results in 100% domination, with the complete humiliation and psychological disintegration of the…

  • Man Who Built My Childhood, The (The Epic Story of My Life Appendix B)

    Brian Stockton’s series of humourous autobiographical shorts takes a detour into architecture with this 5-minute “appendix” about renowned Saskatchewan architect Joseph Pettick. Pettick has designed a staggering 500 buildings in Saskatchewan, and his impact on the province and the filmmaker is enormous. “I have lived my life in Joseph Pettick’s buildings” states the narration. Stockton explores three of Pettick’s masterpieces including Grant Road Elementary School which had a huge impact on the filmmaker’s early life and has figured prominently in Stockton’s EPIC STORY OF MY LIFE series.

  • Whitmore Park (The Epic Story of My Life Part 4)

    Brian Stockton’s series of humourous autobiographical short films goes beyond his acclaimed SASKATCHEWAN TRILOGY and into the suburban neighbourhood of Whitmore Park. Filled with ruminations about ‘the future’, strange performance art projects from grade four, and the beginnings of a life as a filmmaker, “Whitmore Park” transcends the neighbourhood and revels in the ‘epic’ story of a life in the suburbs. Like others in the series, the film is a unique mix of documentary, drama and animation, all presented in the visual feast of 35mm Cinemascope.

  • Saskatchewan Part 3

    Brian Stockton’s series of eccentric autobiographical short films continues with “Saskatchewan Part 3,” the conclusion of THE SASKATCHEWAN TRILOGY. Part 3 takes a humourous, animated look at the filmmaker’s family tree, and how it is that his grandparents ended up in Saskatchewan in the early 20th century. As with the previous installments, “Saskatchewan Part 3” is a melange of personal history. family mementos, and Saskatchewan lore, mixed tobether with a bone-dry sense of humour. Filmed in glorious 35mm cinemascope, “Saskatchewan Part 3” seeks to define what it means to come home.

  • Botero’s Apple

    December the 25th. Bunny goes out the city chasing after Santa Claus for her son. The boy, Rocamador, run after his mother through the city. The journey takes an uncommon course. — Saracura Filmes

  • anamnesis

    “anamnesis” is a handmade diary film exploring home, memory, and history through heavily processed painterly sequences. The film was shot at the Independent Imaging Retreat (the Film Farm) in Mount Forest, Ontario. Selected Screenings: Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, 2009 (Montreal, QC); Berlin International Film Festival, Forum Expanded Section, 2009 (Germany)

  • Refraction Series

    “Refraction Series” offers an experimental approach to optics, using simple materials and techniques to generate a range of images of pure light and color in motion. The film is inspired by the ideas of early scientists who investigated the nature of light and visual perception, particularly the experiments and writings of the tenth-century Arab mathematician/scientist Ibn al-Haytham and the English mathematician/scientist Isaac Newton. Selected screenings: TIFF Wavelengths Programme, 2009; Media City Film Festival, 2010; WNDX Winnipeg, 2010

  • Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis

    “Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis” is Saïto’s second collaboration with musician Malcolm Goldstein, who composed and performed the original structured improvisation score for the film. The film explores familiar landscape imagery Saïto and Goldstein share in their neighbourhood at the foot of Mount-Royal Park in Montréal. Using images of maple trees in the park as the main visual motif, Saïto creates a film in which the formations of the trees and their subtle interrelation with the space around them act as an agent to transform viewer’s sensorial perception. Richly colored and entirely hand-processed, “Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis”…