Genres: experimental

  • Dread

    A sequence of rawly chewed images, framed by the writing of Dr. R.D Laing.

  • You Are Watching: A Film on Brecht

    “You Are Watching: A Film on Brecht” is an experimental, documentary-style animation that explores the life and ideas of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht in both a historical and contemporary context. This film/video was shot on Super 8mm film and finished on video.

  • Born to Shop (L’Age d’mall)

    Live action and animation with biting commentary on the religion of rampant consumerism.

  • Bridges-Go-Round

    Manhattan becomes a maypole as its bridges execute a carefree but magical dance. There are two versions of the film on the reel, one with an electronic soundtrack by Louis and Bebe Barron, and one with music by Ted Macero and his group. The director feels that both should be seen, the electronic-sound version first because that sound vitally alters the responses of the viewer.

  • Snap

    A collection of pictures and old autograph-book rhymes capture a particular glance at a life.

  • Living Room, The

    In “The Living Room,” objects on the wall one by one explode or burn and disappear one after the other while various acting events takes place nearby. “The Living Room” opens with a wall completely bare, then all these objects return from the dead with the clothes of the standing pregnant woman who then does a striptease.

  • my I’s

    “my I’s” is a visual journey through time, space, and memories of the filmmaker from her childhood to the present. Not parting with her Super 8 camera for four years, she accumulated a variety of images from different parts of the world and from different times of the year. She then combined these images with home movie footage of herself and her mother. Pruska-Oldenhof’s childhood memories of Sunday afternoon walks with her mother – to a park, a field or a castle – and seeing the world through her mother’s eyes has shaped her mind and even her filmic eye.…

  • Prelude

    “A carefully prepared ‘rush job’ and come-on … Every second counts in ‘Prelude,’ an unblinking wild three-way where most every action (teaser ingredients of sex, violence, music and food) occurs thrice as sound, verbal description and visual event. Though the constituent parts of any event are out of joint and rarely meet in the same incremental ‘time zone,’ perfect synch seems to only occur dead centre within the room. The action occurs within the same camera pan and single take. “Like some of Snow’s greatest work, the seemingly offhand ‘Prelude’ is conceptually meticulous. The film constructs a momentary physical world…

  • i was a strong man until i left home

    A travelogue as catharsis, “i was a strong man until i left home” blends footage from several trips across North America, by plane, train and car. Informed by principles of Imagist Poetry, Kerr turns his camera on familiar imagery of the American travel experience, yet renders the quotidian as abstract, the continuity of perception as fragments. Employing a method he refers to as ‘Digital Sketching,’ “i was a strong man until i left home” possesses the intimacy of a flip through an artist’s sketchbook.

  • Passengers

    Evocative, passionate and poetic, this film is a compelling and moving exploration of the relationship between a daughter and her father as she matures from childhood to adulthood. On the day of his funeral, she draws on the legacy of his love, understanding, and compassion, and comes to term with her sexual identity.