Film Format: Digital File
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unexplained as yet
The vernacular of gender identity is ever growing and changing, yet many continue to live beyond these definitions, defying language and category; we are unknown, akin to mythical creatures. Multiple exposures of a single roll of Super 8 film allow a brief glimpse into the heart of this chimera: to be unidentified…unexplained.
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What I Want / What I Have
Incongruities between body and gender become an obstacle for lovers as they navigate the painfully awkward rift between dysphoria and desire.
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de(con)struct
Double exposed and edited entirely in camera this work plays with ideas of gender expression and creation while addressing the possibility of conflicting aspects of one’s self identity: the perpetual construction and deconstruction of gender.
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Tonight It’s Me
A hustler and a trans woman meet up randomly for a late night tryst. Over the course of the night, the unlikely pair confess to some uncomfortable secrets and discover hidden truths. The two realize that they share a genuine and intimate experience much deeper than a hook-up.
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Far From
Constructed with repetitions and variations in reference to the musical form of a nocturne, Far From is an accumulation of the layers, density and noise of existence. The film evokes the ghosts of lives lived and the traces of lives being lived, rising. French Synopsis: À l’instar d’une nocturne, les variations et les répétitions du film « Loin de » agencent les couches, la densité et les bruissements de l’existence – les fantômes de vies passées et les traces de vies toujours présentes, en devenir.
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Colour Theory
Goethe’s colour theory dealt with the optics of colour relations while Rudolf Steiner’s and Kandinsky’s theories attribute emotional, musical, and spiritual affects to colour. North American Natives see personality traits, states of mind, seasons, races and the four directions in the four colours: red, yellow, white, black. What’s in a name, what’s in a word? A world of colour
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Love Me
Using only text-on-screen, Love Me distills the emotions of an earlier film, Beating: emotions conflict, confuse and are difficult to reconcile. The texts ‘speak’ unsaid and unsayable thoughts, impolitic or just impolite. They are suppressed exclamations from past injustices and hurts; angers surface which are interrupting, erupting and demanding of attention.
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Time Being V
To be included with the series Time Being I-IV.
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Time Being VI
To be included with the series Time Being I-IV.
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The Foxy Merkins
Two lesbian hookers wind their way through a world of bargain-hunting housewives and double-dealing conservative women in this subversive buddy comedy. An homage to and riff on iconic male hustler films.
