Film Format: 35mm

  • Get Happy

    “Get Happy”, as the title suggests, is a joyous carefree romp through the swinging world of Benny Goodman and his orchestra. This richly textured “cameraless” animation propels the audience through the highs, lows, and refrains of a big-band classic. With a new sound synchronization formula, “Get Happy” delivers an unabashed stream-of-consciousness, fluid with several well-delivered visual punches and crescendos. In Cinemascope.

  • 1:1

    This cameraless animation is about the 1:1 relationship between sound & picture: the 1:1 concept became the structure for the entire piece and spawns further thought about relationships between elements in cinema (artist to medium, viewer to screen, projector to film).

  • Soul Cages

    This lyrical experimental / narrative film was inspired by the various myths of the Soul Cages. Legend states that the souls of drowned sailors are captured by underwater spirits and held in clay pots at the bottom of the ocean. A mortal man becomes compelled to set the souls free so that they can continue their afterlife journey. The film sets the legend in the present. It is the story about a relationship between a photographer and the man who possesses her film in a one-hour photo lab. I was inspired by the Soul Cages myth to construct a narrative…

  • Interviews with My Next Girlfriend

    The fight to win the title of next girlfriend is the subject of this hilarious short by director Cassandra Nicolaou. Starring a cast of Toronto celebrities including Ann-Marie Macdonald, Diane Flacks, Karen Robinson, Shoshana Sperling and Moynan King, nine women are questioned by an unknown interviewer to see if they measure up. Awards: Audience Award & Best Comedy, planetout.com/HBO Short Movie Awards; Audience Favourite, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival; Audience Award, Best Short Film, Inside Out Toronto Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival; Best Short Film, Paris Lesbian Film Festival; Audience Award, Best Fiction Film, Bologna International Women’s…

  • ACHTUNG – die Achtung (concentration chair) | ACHTUNG – Respect (concentration chair)

    “There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.” – Immanuel Kant, “Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason “ Born in the body (…and in time…) “Certainly even today some viewers will be affected by this work. Respect for the true art of filmmaking demanded that even the closeup be kept in, where a razor slices through an eye.” – Warning introduction to the German archival copy of “Un Chien Andalou”

  • Chosen Family, The

    Families, whether chosen or biological, have a single aim – to drive us nuts, as this astute and comic film demonstrates.

  • Lez Be Friends

    After making a short film about her best friend Abbey’s struggle to accept her sexual orientation, Lily is assumed to be the true subject of the film. While Abbey, the film’s star, becomes a legend in the lesbian community, Lily is trapped in a netherworld between hetrosexuality and homosexuality, continually trying to set the record straight.

  • Zig Zag

    A one-minute, 35mm cameraless animation.

  • Subrosa

    “Subrosa” traces a young woman’s journey to Korea, the land of her birth, to find the mother she’s never known. This exquisitely crafted drama probes the idealized, often false constructions of cultural and maternal identities wrought by the adoptee’s return. “Subrosa” tracks the unnamed heroine from a sterile adoption agency office to seedy bars and motel rooms on neon strips, then to a stark U.S. army camp town and the bustling flower markets of Seoul. Though her path to self-destruction and ultimate self-revelation ironically and tragically mirrors that of her imagined biological mother, the past remains elusive to her, the…

  • Touch

    “Touch” is an uncompromising work about emotional scarring, the cycle of abuse, and the perverse nature of desire. In a poetic and highly stylized treatment, the film details the tragic journey of a physically and psychologically abused teenaged boy from early childhood trauma through to adolescent dysfunction. Composed in three articulate sections (Captivity, Liberation, Withdrawal), “Touch” is a disturbing tale of a young boy who is held captive for a period of years. When he is mysteriously set free after this long period of deprivation, he is found, hospitalized, psychoanalyzed and treated, but he is unable to adapt to the…