Genres: experimental

  • Suspension

    An interpretation of a state of suspension through visual effects, dance, movement and sound. It represents a “state” rather than a “journey.” Events occur within the film as might be seen in an abstract painting that is in motion.

  • Suspicious

    “An energetic video exploring the theme of self-identification and the significance of sexual and racial labels.” – Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, Toronto, 1995

  • Swan, The

    Volumes have been written on “The Dying Swan,” the dramatic ballet solo first choreographed by Michel Fokine and made famous by Anna Pavlova. The dancer interprets the swan’s struggle for life in the face of the inevitable approach of death. In “The Swan,” as the dancer assumes the poses and movements of a swan, the animation dissolves in, transforming the human interpretation of the bird into an animated swan which continues the choreography of the now invisible dancer. The dance dissolves back in picking u,p the movement of the animation. This back-and-forth interplay continues throughout the film.

  • Sweep

    “Sami called and asked me to go north with him and make a film about where his great-grandfather, Robert Flaherty, had been in Fort George. I suggested we stop in Kapuskasing to see the place where my mother’s family first settled when they arrived from Europe. Two men, on the road AGAIN, sifting through past worlds where there is everywhere, dusty remnants of the ‘great white father.’ Colliding head on with the passing present we see him in us.” – Phil Hoffman Sound design: Randall Smith

  • Sweet Love Remembered

    Inspired by remarks made by Freud, “Eros nowhere makes its intentions more clear than in the desire to make two things one” and by Nietzsche, “What must these people have suffered to have become this beautiful.” (RBE)

  • Sweetblood

    “‘Sweetblood’’s chief elements include a flurry of family photos, a collage of Italian immigrant voices and a bottle of red. Expertly made, this memoir is Steve Sanguedolce’s hymn to his family, and his own secret history of the seventies.” – Toronto Festival of Festivals “Perhaps the most evocative short film in the program is Steve Sanguedolce’s ‘Sweetblood,’ which examines the strained relationship between the filmmaker and his emotionally detached father. A collage of family photographs and cryptic subtitles fills the screen while the voices of his family and his personal thoughts are heard. An emotionally stirring film in which the…

  • Swim After Dinner

    “Swim After Dinner” is an expression of a modern woman’s identity created through movement, sound, and metaphor. Swimming after dinner will give you cramps.

  • Sydney Harbour Bridge

    A visually stunning virtuoso work in its exploitation of the in-camera matting technique. The conception of the film begins with a panoramic view of Sydney Harbour Bridge, popular in many tourist postcards. The beauty of the film lies in the complex transpositions of that image.

  • Symptomatic

    An exploration of the connection between desire and memory.

  • T.O.U.C.H.I.N.G.

    Starring poet David Franks, whose voice appears on the soundtrack uncutting and unscratching my final mandalic work. (PS)