Genres: experimental

  • B-Film Keeper, The

    A 1940’s damaged silent instructional filmshows good bee-keeping and film practice, while alluding to the nearing extinction of both 16mm film and honey bees.

  • it’s easier to pick sours than sweets

    A conversation about cherries, as illustrated by the shape of ducks and the motion of cherry blossom petals, as demonstrated on celluloid soaked in cherry juice.

  • Charles Gagnon: 4 Films

    DVD + Catalogue For the first time the experimental films of renowned multidisciplinary artist Charles Gagnon are available in digitized form through a DVD collection and accompanying catalogue. “Charles Gagnon: 4 Films” unites Gagnon’s 1960s experimental films and highlights the intersections between film, painting, photography, and music in his artistic œuvre. 4 Films resonates with the countercultural consciousness of the 1960s and is exemplary of avant-garde experimental collage and structuralist filmmaking aesthetics, which are evident throughout these four 16mm works produced between 1966 and 1972. Created within the vibrant social and cultural context of 1960s Québec, this collection begins with…

  • GarBanZo

    All of the images and sounds are created by drawing, painting, etching or applying shapes directly onto the film.

  • Jay Dreams

    “Jay Dreams” uses Jai Brook’s ironic poetry to bring humanity and humor to sometimes awkward moments in the on-going struggle for LGBT people to self-define, find safe partnerships, and gain acceptance. Catherine Pancake uses improvised documentary footage of Jai Brooks and his partner, Monique Meadows, to present the realities of daily life. Special vignettes shot in colour 16mm highlight more idealized (fantasized?) images. The interplay between fantasy and reality provides a humorous and entertaining backdrop to find human commonalities across race, gender, and sexual orientation.

  • Stick it in

    “Stick it in” is a short sharp visual sting of a heart shattered.

  • Riding Along

    “A month’s wandering, hitch-hiking towards Eastern Europe with a few rolls of 16mm film, a microphone and an old Bolex camera. An intuitive recollection of sounds and images from the journey’s chance meetings and landscapes. One conviction leads me on these roads: different forms of assocation between sound and image are possible. The recording device is at the heart of the encounters as the emotional barometer of an atypical journey. From car to car, the film unfolds and finds its way, slowly drawing a self-portrait.” – Sébastien Demeffe

  • LLOYD ____FEIN MUST DIE

    “LLOYD ____FEIN MUST DIE” is protest porn. Using appropriated imagery from the Internet and Sammy Davis Jr.’s classic signature song ” I’ve Gotta Be Me,” “LLOYD ____FEIN MUST DIE” is a choreographed sexual roundelay about the destructive greed and vanity of a vilified banker. Summoning an orgy of images to relieve anger sexually, the film’s cathartic Freudian release posits a retreat to private joy as a valid response for populations depressed by avaricious powerbrokers in capital economies.

  • Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman

    “Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman” is a stylized and lyrical coming-of-age portrait of Derek Jarman’s artistic, sexual, and political awakening in post-War England. Part biographical narrative, part experimental collage, part personal meditation on the most controversial and important modern British artist and activist, the film finds in Jarman’s childhood the stirrings of creative and individual epiphany that inspired a remarkable life. Written and directed by Matthew Mishory, the film was shot in Super 8 and HD by cinematographer Lili Wilde and features an original score by Arban and Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Glove.…

  • Poised and in the Throes

    A stop-animation piece constructed from found photographic sources pays homage to Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, Jean Genet and Fassbinder’s “Querelle.”