Genres: experimental

  • Traces Stepped

    “Traces Stepped” intends to explore the affective relation between time and the moving-image through Bergson’s notion of “la dureé,” or duration.

  • Trains of Thought

    My primary concern when making “Trains of Thought” was the cinematic portrayal of isolated characters. The four individual sequences are essentially temporal portraits; the characters are seen in the context of their relationship to the passing of time. They neither interact with other characters nor do they encounter consequential narrative events. Rather than using a clearly defined narrative relationship to connect the four episodes, I have employed various formal and thematic devices to unify the separate sequences. The use of shared imagery, common formal techniques such as the variations on fixed camera perspectives and the complementary nature of the various…

  • space

    Freeze-frames and radio sounds from a Greyhound bus-trip around the United States in June ’75. Optically-printed images of the Oregon coast, streets of San Francisco, California highways, Tijuana, the Grand Canyon, Texas, Louisiana, Washington D.C. and New York jazz.

  • Transformation

    Emshwiller was formerly a painter. Here his animated abstract paintings pass through evolving styles and techniques.

  • Transition

    A spontaneous piece produced without intellectual supression, allowing the dance movement and visual treatment to take its own course.

  • Big Key, The

    A comedy about a piano player who vents his creative frustrations in various ways, causing havoc. With Phil Shreibman, Len Udow and Mary Jane Card.

  • Transitions

    “Transitions” is a film of inner life and speaks of time, reality, power. It depicts the disquieting sensations of being between – between falling asleep and being awake, between here and there, between being and non-being. These metaphysical themes are evoked by the central image of a woman in white over which layers of images and sound (voices) are superimposed.

  • Trapline

    “Trapline” represents a new way of considering film as a vehicle of projected movement… The film is composed entirely of static camera shots. “Ellie Epp’s ‘Trapline’ (1976) maps another way out of structural film toward a cinema of delicate implication.” – Bart Testa, Canadian Encyclopedia “Several filmmakers continue to explore space and landscape on film…. Ellie Epp’s ‘Trapline’ (1976) is the most cooly beautiful of all: filmed in the Silchester Road Public Baths, London, it sets a sequence of geometrically organized shots, outwardly but gently alive with light changes, ripples and reflections, within the continuous, distantly reverberant sound space of…

  • Treefall

    “Treefall was originally made for a dance performance at the Vancouver Art Gallery, April, 1970. Structured in the form of two loops of high-contrast images of trees falling, reprinted and overlapped.

  • Trees and Elevators

    An expressionistic documentary contrasting technology (elevators) and the natural environment (trees). The filmmaker makes no judgement concerning these two, but rather tries to show the interconnections between the natural and technological worlds.