Film Format: 35mm

  • A Thousand Little Trees of Blood

    Stella and Guilio are on one of their many, stressful dates, when a small catalyst creates a huge issue.

  • Hawkesville to Wallenstein

    An impressionistic documentary about the Old Order Amish farmers in Waterloo County during the winter months. (35 mm print available)

  • Fusion

    Investigating the interplay and love affair between sound and image. An abstract experimental animation experience produced by drawing both sounds and pictures directly onto 35mm film.

  • Karaoke

    The home has changed. The palm oil trees have grown in endless symmetry. The landscape rusts and the nostalgia turns. KARAOKE is a homecoming story. BETIK returns to his village to help his mother with the karaoke a few years after the death of his father. During the day, he has also taken a job with his uncle making karaoke videos. KARAOKE is a story that takes you back home yet reminds you to go back where you came from. KARAOKE is a debut feature film about home and deception in a karaoke club within a palm oil plantation in…

  • longer than that, she said

    A meditation on anticipatory loss, this film examines the artists relationship with grief and attempts to ground herself. This film was hand processed in cilantro, mint and tansy at the Film Farm Residency hosted by Phillip Hoffman. Dyed in turmeric and walnut and utilizing freezing film decay techniques.

  • Flowers #3 (Kissed by the sun)

    These motion picture photograms were initiated through a five hour plunge into the darkroom; remembering the Galician celebration of flowers on the road in Baiona, near Vigo in 2019, here too we made a floral carpet of photograms. –P.Hoffman A Procession of herbs “emerge in all their structures, colors and epidermis. The motion picture itself becomes a plant which delicately stretches petioles and petals.” – Séance #3-Sentir Comme une Plante, Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle, Paris.

  • A Fiscal Life

    Capital is unavoidably ingrained into every day life. Influenced by the quote attributed to Fredric Jameson; “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” A film created from the frustration and struggle of how it’s nearly impossible to imagine surviving without money in the world today. It’s such a necessary part of living that that you could say it’s part of our DNA, and for art it’s no different. It’s physically, violently, part of everything we do and see.

  • People On Sunday

    People on Sunday is filmed using the technology of hand-crancked cinematograph camera invented by the Lumière brothers’. The instability and volatility of the image produced by the filming technique characterizes Viita´s film which title refers to the German classic Menchen am Sonntag (1930) – a well-known example of how history and the passage of time affect the interpretation of film. The inexorable passage of time and the beautiful fragility of life are central themes in both films. Does man learn anything from history, or are we doomed to make the same mistakes over and over again? People on Sunday presents…

  • Johnston…Johnston

    “Johnston…Johnston” is about a nervous stockbroker who locks himself into a daydream to escape aggressive management and his meaningless corporate existence. In an attempt to renew his spirit, Johnston’s consciousness tries to break into his dream-state to forcibly regain control over his soul. Returning to reality, however, is out of the question and violence erupts. The disastrous consequence of his inner turmoil leads to his incarceration in a circular timewarp of repeating events.

  • Leaving the Poisons Behind

    Animal, fish and bird pictographs struggle to escape the filmic and musical presence of environmental poisons. Primarily an environmental picture, “Leaving the Poisons Behind” can also be seen as a forum for meditation on the idea of leaving behind personal poisons – smoking, drugs, drinking, abusive relationships, and so on. The film may also be of interest to those who are studying aboriginals and their environmental connections, and to those interested in petroglyphs and other figures from neolithic artists. It is a beautiful film as well as an innovative type of music video in film format, making it accessible to…