Genres: experimental

  • It’s Me, Again

    “‘It’s Me, Again’ is an elaborate experimental ‘mockumentary’ on the phenomenon of the identical genome, commonly known as twins. Fleming presents interview after interview with an astounding array of twins as she examines the ancient mythologies of twins as a sign of evil vs. a sign of divinity, the molecular and genetic underpinnings of twins, the psychic connections between them and the problem of split personality. No stone is left unturned in this hilariously trumped up search for the complete, and completely crazy, taxonomy of the human.” – Toronto Festival of Festivals

  • January 15, 1991: Gulf War Diary

    “A personal register of the passing deadline, fashioned entirely in camera. Toward midnight, a trip to a demonstration at the U.S. consulate in Toronto vies for frame with the swirling super-impositions of clocks and newscasts.” – Pleasure Dome, “War and Cinema” program notes, January 15, 1991

  • Jardin (du Paradis) the Garden, Le

    “‘Le Jardin’ works through a number of experimental film ‘genres.’ It contains elements of the structural film, diary, autobiography, and the new narrative. It presents the viewer with a simple through-line (story), but its means are at tangent to the core of the film’s incidents. Apparently arbitrary choices of sound and image elements later resolve into a strong, effective coincidence – only to dissolve as the film moves forward. The arbitrary becoming meaningful might well be the theme of ‘Le Jardin.’” – P. Chapman, Opsis “Le film se veut une reflexion sur la vie et la mort. C’est une longue…

  • Jazz Film

    One day at the corner of Spadina Avenue and College Street, two musicians (Isaac Applebaum and Lorne Fromer) begin to play the sax and the clarinet in front of the Crest Grill. It’s cool early winter and people are off to work. A teller was killed the day before at the nearby corner bank; a memoriam to her is a series of reactions from the crowd in the jumpy erratic style of an edgy killer/bank robber. A poetic exorcism of violence on the streets.

  • Arabic Numeral Series – Arabic 19

    This series of films, each extraordinarily unique from every other (except “0 + 10” going together) is inspired and governed by strata of the mind’s moving-visual-thinking different from that of the “Roman Numeral Series” or perhaps one should say that the Arabic Numerals come to fruition thru some tree-of nerves separate from that which gave birth to the Romans (as it is physiologically deceptive to think of thought as existing in “layers”). The Arabics range in length from approximately 5 min. to 32 min. and may be projected at 24 fps as well as 18, tho’ the latter speed seems…

  • Jesus Saves

    The political emotions of the butcher shop are discussed within the codes of Catholicism. Purging Catholic guilt, sins of the flesh, and flesh eating. The confessions of a butcher gone astray. An ambiguous layering of images, one is not sure whether the confessor is human or a pig, or if the priest is a butcher.

  • Journey

    Staring out a moving subway car window, we see the world pass with a deadly ominousness- achieved through high contrast film, Gregorian chants, and the visual invasion of the standard cinematic frame.

  • Journeys from Berlin/1971

    In “Journeys from Berlin/1971” there are five characters: a man, woman, and adolescent girl who “appear” only on the sound track; a female psychoanalytic patient in her early 50s; and a therapist, or analyst, played alternately by a man, woman, and nine-year-old boy. The speech of the analytic session is synchronous with the image. The voice-over of the other three people bears a constantly shifting relationship to a recurrent gamut of images: views from a moving train window and from various apartment windows in Berlin, London, and New York; tracking shots scanning a mantlepiece cluttered with objects; aerial views of…

  • Arabic Numeral Series – Arabic 2

    This series of films, each extraordinarily unique from every other (except “0 + 10” going together) is inspired and governed by strata of the mind’s moving-visual-thinking different from that of the “Roman Numeral Series” or perhaps one should say that the Arabic Numerals come to fruition thru some tree-of nerves separate from that which gave birth to the Romans (as it is physiologically deceptive to think of thought as existing in “layers”). The Arabics range in length from approximately 5 min. to 32 min. and may be projected at 24 fps as well as 18, tho’ the latter speed seems…

  • Kick That Habit Man!

    The phrase “kick that habit man”, which is also a poem by Brion Gysin, is re-arranged in every possible order in this clever blend of sound, image, and optical printing.