Genres: documentary

  • Daddy-O

    A father sounds off about his love for fishing, fatherhood and his gay daughter on a weekend fishing trip together.

  • Pain

    A woman speaks of her painful discovery of and subsequent survival from breast cancer in the 1970s, and celebrates over 25 years of life after her mastectomy.

  • Komrades

    A remarkable exploration of the lives of Russian soldiers and sailors on national service. Horrified at the suggestion of homosexuality, these brothers in arms are both physically affectionate and devoted to each other. They reveal a tantalizing variety of male bonding which is rare beyond the ranks of the armed services.

  • Chinese Cafés in Rural Saskatchewan

    A “television documentary” which researches the Chinese communities in rural Saskatchewan by tracing the popularity of Chinese cafés. Using archival photographs, the video presents the experiences of Chinese immigrants from the turn-of the-century to the present.

  • Fine Romance (In Three Parts), A

    A fine, if undefined, romance – told with lots of kissing, vivid colours and Ella on the soundtrack.

  • July’s Wet Dreams

    A hand-processed recipe for a fountain of youth. Comprised of one continuous slow-motion shot, “July’s Wet Dreams” reveals several silhouetted figures amidst a fountain’s watery spray. The hand-processed Super 8 material was manipulated using a variety of coloured toners and application techniques to accentuate the liquid tactility of the image. An evocative portrait of a summer’s day. Honourable Mention for Best Experimental Short, Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2005

  • Choice Chance Women Dance

    A film-poem by a man who attempts to understand and express some of the concerns of women in the early ’70s: woman with woman, woman alone, woman as mother, woman as scientist, woman as dancer. An impressionistic documentary, using pixillation, superimposition, interview and dance-film techniques.

  • Flora’s Film

    In 1873, Eadweard Muybridge, commonly referred to as “the father of the motion picture,” succeeded in photographically freezing a horse mid-gallop. One year later, he shot and killed his wife’s lover. Using an evocative collection of found footage and sounds, Wilson channels the voice of Flora Muybridge, imagining her response to her husband’s act and subsequent acquittal at trial.

  • Late

    Radio evangelist Sister Agnes Phillips dispenses wisdom and hope to lost souls against a late-night urban landscape of seedy hotels and dial-a-saviour billboards. Awards: Detroit Film Center Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2004

  • Universe Energies Sustain Us

    A poetic video collage about light, air and language, the materials and processes we use to communicate and survive; exploring the translation and regulation of data by the body and technology; the aesthetics and consequences of error; the relationships of transparency and difference; problems of image order and presentation, identity, authenticity, feedback and loss, copyright and ownership, access and denial, time, space, speed and memory. Composed of recycled sequences of abstract animation and performance video (sourced from Cold Tape, Myeyeye, Enter, Island, Walk, Play and Letters), together with documentation of the imaging process, and incidental, ambient and appropriated material. Originally…