Film Format: Super 8

  • Witchcraft

    “Witchcraft” is an examination of the nostalgic, and darker implications of my family’s Super 8 “home movies.” It is an extension of an earlier work, “Down Payment on a Dead Horse,” which is rooted in a quote from Ernest Hemmingway – “All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”

  • Nightfall

    “Nightfall” is a formal portrait of the Canadian winter landscape, shot on Super 8, VHS, DVCAM, and 16mm.

  • Hot Under the Collar

    “Hot Under the Collar” is an experimental video that examines the imagery of the Kodak “Shirley” test patterns. An examination of the “male gaze,” the evolution of film and video, and obvious formal considerations constitute the foundation for “Hot Under the Collar”.

  • Dead Horse Point

    “Dead Horse Point” is a film that expresses my feelings of ambivalence for the western genre, and America as a nation. It essentially deals with the notion of “the old west,” “the frontier,” the blurred line between historical fact and myth, the role of Hollywood in the historical process, the importance of celebrity in America, and finally the influence that the western landscape has had in defining the mythology of “the old west.”

  • tide goes in, the tide goes out, The

    A hand-processed, black-and-white ode to the secret world of moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita). “The tide goes in, the tide goes out” revels in the material and chemical qualities of the film medium, with the fragility of the film mirroring that of the jellyfish. Made for 30 x 30: Newly Commissioned FIlms for Thirty Years of LIFT Selected screenings: Images Festival, 2012 (Toronto, ON); Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, 2012 (Germany); Jihlava International Documentary Festival, 2012 (Czech Republic); (S8) Mostra Cinema Periférico, 2016 (Spain)

  • La Grande Dame (étude)

    A graphic and vertiginous portrait of la Place Ville Marie in Montreal, Canada. Originally shot on Super 8 and edited in-camera, blown up to 16mm for exhibition. Selected screenings: Media City Film Festival, 2012 (Windsor, ON); Images Festival, 2012 (Toronto, ON)

  • when the smog-filled wind began to howl

    We know now that in the early years of the twenty-first century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man. [adapted from Orson Welles’ adaptation of HG Wells’ War of the Worlds (Orson Welles And Mercury Theatre On The Air, Columbia Broadcasting System, 8:00 To 9:00 P.M., Sunday, October 30, 1938)]

  • A+

    Cinema finds its accounts in an uncommon ledger, whose lines and tabulations conceal the greatest love of all.

  • Memory Worked By Mirrors

    A mirror in the filmmaker’s backyard reflects his childhood home. The black frame of the watermarked mirror becomes a mysterious portal, distorting brick, branch, and flesh into an amorphous hodgepodge. A self-portrait.

  • Manor Road

    Trains travel to and from a fixed point in space beneath a variable coloured horizon.