Genres: experimental

  • Vision Point

    Visionary film. Experimental landscape animation: Moving time-lapse, telephoto cropping, and laborious re-registration create a surreal portrait of Western Canada. The “vision point” occurs when object and subject fuse, dissolving the distinction between the view and the viewer.

  • Smack

    Part documentary, part fiction, and highly experimental, Steve Sanguedolce’s “Smack” follows the story of three brothers (Antonio, Sybil and Zed) as they try to find their way in the world. The brothers exercise their youthful autonomy in defiant ways, exploring all that is forbidden (drugs, crime, violence). Their teenage years are filled with unhealthy, dangerous and criminal behaviour that eventually begins to pull them apart. The stories are told by actual subjects talking about their own lives, and range from religious transformations to heroin overdoses; they are funny, frightening, horrifying and all real. Toronto-based director/cinematographer Steve Sanguedolce matches these interconnected…

  • Before It Blows

    As we watch through a tourist’s video camera for the Old Faithful geyser to erupt, visitors stand just outside the frame and vent their own desires and frustrations on one another. The anxious videographer and his helpful wife; the dazzled mother with her cynical teenaged son; the pontifical father and his overmodulated daughter; and the couple who have just decided to separate – as the geyser finally erupts, each of them explodes in their own way. “One of Canada’s most imaginative experimental filmmakers (her other acclaimed films include Sifted Evidence, Low Visibility, Ley Lines) returns with a concise, amusing and…

  • KAIN UND ABEL – eine Moritat | CAIN AND ABEL – A Moral

    We are shown how God sows the seeds of discord and divides mankind into good and evil. –What hast thou done? The voice of my brother’s blood is crying to you from the ground. “A queerly provocative retelling of the Bible story about a man’s bloodlust for his brother.” – MIX New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film & Video Festival, 1995 “‘Cain and Abel: A Moral’ (1994) retells the story of the Bible’s most notorious brothers, questioning the roles of discord and resistance (and featuring an extraordinary birth scene not to be missed!), all in a style that hovers…

  • MEIN ZWEITER VERS. | MY SECOND VERS.

    My first video take – a film, that rhymes between the lines. In German with English subtitles.

  • Vibrant Marvels

    “We did not come into this world. We came out of it…” – Lyall Watson, Gifts of the Unknown We rarely think of the past which occurred before our birth, yet our body and mind seem to remember it well. “Vibrant Marvels” reaches back into our subconscious memories and reminds us of the innateness of dance and music, that resonates in us from generation to generation and which we first encountered while we were in the womb. The membrane of our mother’s belly acted as a resonating drum to which rhythms we responded, as we pushed to become a part…

  • Minus

    “Minus” is a hand-processed, uncut, singular stream of movements. To take away: either to leave remnants of light or to leave remnants of rhythms. Entirely hand-processed and unscathed by the blades of the splicer. This is Chong’s first 16mm film. Inspired by Ritchie Hawkin’s Concept albums.

  • Air Cries – Red Thread

    This is the passion tale of a body thief, who needs no cover, and who brazenly comes and tears apart the lives of those we love. The angels which float as the sky rains upon our heads. Red, covers the sidewalks, offices, homes and the money we exchange. It could never happen to us, the umbrella shades some from the downpour. They walk around with a bad coppertone tan. All these angels / all of us must be as one or there is no redemption. A perpetual body with no spirit is the fate to those who say it cannot…

  • Breakfast (Table Top Dolly)

    “Snow’s use of the dolly shot in ‘Breakfast (Table Top Dolly)’ vividly – and comically – emphasizes the physical effects of the camera’s forward movement, in contrast to the purely optical effects of the zoom in ‘Wavelength.’ In ‘Breakfast,’ the camera dollies toward an untidy still life of breakfast items and slowly pushes the objects along the table until the tip over, tumble off, or are smashed against the wall at the far end of the table.” – William C. Wees, Light Moving in Time

  • Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables

    “Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables” is an animated adventure that moves through the city in search of safe havens, house music, romantic boys in record stores, distracting images from childhood, and finally into the place where we all want to be…all in the attempt to find a place of least-anxiety. Shot on Super 8 and blown up to 16mm, “Notebook on Lightning Bolts & Turntables” is an animation film that encompasses clay-mation, cell animation, and live action.