Genres: experimental

  • Scrambled Porn

    Distinguishing the drama from the documentary, the analog from the digital, the fact from the fiction, and the technology from the sexuality will be more perverse in the twenty-first century.

  • Passenger

    “Passenger” is a visual, and interrupted, journey exploring layers of subway train images which have been altered and abstracted through scratched text and painted frames. The film’s soundtrack reflects the chain of thoughts in one’s mind: angst, displacement, numbness, anger, tolerance, peace, memories and feelings which can be encountered on the train.

  • Relative Motion

    “Relative Motion” is a series of designs scratched on already processed film, allowing the natural colour of the film to reveal itself. Paint is also added to enhance this state. The designs are expressions of emotions and thoughts which are brought to a roar with sound created to accompany the movements of the scratches.

  • After Eden

    “ … a beautiful journey through the wasteland of displaced souls, loosely structured around biblical stories. A man becomes a traveller after his home is destroyed; the story expands to examine those who are literally or metaphorically homeless. In this alien world, existing between fact and fiction, a provocative question is asked: Where does one go after losing paradise?” – Liz Czach, Toronto International Film Festival “Part diary film … part urban ethnography … part excavation in search of faith amidst landscapes of concrete, it is a compilation film assembled from rolls of super-8 and 16mm that I shot, hand…

  • Bricolage

    A film which deals with aspects of male and female representation, spatial and temporal dislocation, and notions of framing and containment.

  • West Coast Reduction

    Shot during a particularly dark downtown east side December, this was originally supposed to be part of a Cineworks Omnibus project. Due to very sad and unfortunate circumstances the project was derailed, and I had to finish it on my own. It is dedicated to Eva Madden. (JP)

  • Remembrance

    I found this poem at a defunct mental hospital while working on a pathetic TV show … I was in a relationship that was falling apart … I moved to Montreal and spent a lot of time in a graveyard meditating. (John Price)

  • Wreck / Nation

    Two films in one. Wreck: “I passed the wreck not long after crossing into Saskatchewan. Day 3, alone, driving west towards Vancouver. On the other side of the highway, a twisted mess of iron and steel. Rail cars like beached whales strewn arbitrarily in heaps rupturing the perspective symmetry of the endless prairie. At once an allusion to the fallibility of industrialization and modernity. I felt after it had flashed past the windscreen, that there were significations here that reached far deeper than this immediate literal interpretation. Half an hour after I had watched the image recede completely into the…

  • View Never Changes, The

    Seething grain and swirling textures of Super 8 processed in a pail. Film as memory … an elaborate reconstruction perpetually shifting through the course of time. And so is this … a personal recollection of the intensity of what it may have been like to be a child. “Carefully composed as both a gentle and highly critical portrait of the filmmaker’s relationship with his father, this beautifully hand-processed film manages to offer a balanced study heavy with the weight of family history and family ties.” – Alex Mackenzie

  • Outlet

    The first time using outdated 20-year film stock. The first roll I was to process by hand. It was an election year … winter time in Vancouver … sitting in my kitchen … I don’t remember the sun coming out again until March. (John Price)