Genres: documentary

  • Arrival, The

    In this satirical short, a close-knit community is rattled by an invasion of the queerest kind. Eyewitness accounts reveal the terror that has befallen the members of an Asian-American church, leaving them fragile and shaken. “The Arrival” is a hilarious take on LGBT issues that cleverly mixes fact and fiction.

  • Perception

    An experimental animation exploring the disconnect between one’s own perception of self and how one is seen by the rest of the world, specifically facing the journey of transition from female to male.

  • Eclipse

    “Eclipse” contrasts a hotel-room view of downtown streets in Portland, Oregon, during a total solar eclipse, with live T.V. coverage of the event.

  • Even if my hands were full of truths

    “Even if my hands were full of truths” is the third part of a series by the artist about the legacy of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. This component is a mirror that contemplates how memory might or might not become history, using excerpts from now-declassified CIA correspondence and a photo-montage taken at the Museum of Human Rights and Memory in Santiago. Rotterdam International Film Festival, DINAMO: True/False, 2019

  • A+

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

  • where she stood in the first place.

    Situated at the geographic centre of Canada, Baker Lake, Nunavut is the only inland settlement in the Canadian Arctic. Fixing its gaze on this stark landscape, McIntyre’s haunting and sparse film uses hand-wrought black-and-white 16mm film in a meditation on place and personal histories.

  • ada

    An observational video portrait of an Inuk elder, patiently knitting. A study of the passage of time. FAVA Award for Outstanding Documentary, 2012

  • Christ Church – Saint James

    In the spring of 1998, Christ Church – Saint James, a historic black church in Toronto’s Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained were walls and a pit, and over subsequent years, the site was overtaken with graffiti. This film has taken on the layered form of the site itself: the space and its surfaces becoming tangled and multiple, the grid of a stone-filled window giving geometric form to simultaneously occurring images of concrete, nature, waste, paint, and sky. Music by John Butcher.

  • Videos with Mom

    “Breast” (3:25 min.) “Follow” (5:46 min.) “Haircut” (2:46 min.) “Passing” (8:12 min.) Originally I’d been working on a larger project dealing with the exploration of subjective self through intimate relationships: my mother and two ex-girlfriends. My mother was willing to cooperate. We shot “experiments”, “tests”, and “games” throughout the fall, winter, and spring semesters. I screened the footage and it played well. The absent ex-girlfriend sections atrophied. Out they went! I designed rules and scenarios, tested the ones that magnified my relationship with my mother. I did my best to think of each experiment as “What happens if I…” rather…

  • Man That Got Away, The

    A musical documentary that tells the true life story of Trevor’s great-uncle Jimmy in six original songs.