Genres: experimental

  • Preludes 19 – 24

    This is a collection of singly and doubly printed (2 frames for each one) hand-painted work in six parts: PRELUDE 19 begins with hand-painted swatches of variable colors encompassed eventually by vertical strokes of reds and blues, followed by sudden clearings which are counterpointed by sections of multiple blobs of color, these effects alternating again and again to then become contrasted with pale washes of color deepening to end on blacks. PRELUDE 20 begins with pale washes of hand-painted tones overlaid eventually by sharp forms, a kind of sliced color becoming more and more smeared. The first two PRELUDES of…

  • Self: (Portrait/Fulfillment) A Film by the Blob Thing

    After starring in several clay-animated shorts for filmmaker Brian Stockton, the perpetually depressed Blob Thing takes a turn behind the camera to direct this revealing self-portrait. Filmed in glorious wide-screen anamorphic 16mm.

  • Bus Station Film

    An affectionate and eclectic view of the relationship between the camera-eye and the Toronto bus station. Who are these people who move like shadows on a wall; move in, move out, pass through or wait around; sometimes all day, sometimes all winter? How does the camera see; how do we look at things or listen to things when silver and glass and electricity guide our vision and filter our hearing? This film is a poem dedicated to the camera and more importantly to the different Bus Station People you can see any day or any minute.

  • Zig Zag

    A one-minute, 35mm cameraless animation.

  • Machine Machine Machine Machine

    Consumed by toaster experiments and the lure of the switching yard, a pale mad scientist (Julian Doucet) dresses up like a slightly automated Hugo Ball to enter the late winter landscape and bear witness to man’s inhumanity to machines.

  • Passing Through

    “Passing Through” is haunted by a song about love and marriage that can’t be fully recalled – or completely forgotten. In this beautifully hand-processed film nothing seems to fit properly. The streets of a small, Ontario town become associative paths for memory when desire stretches the seams of expectation.

  • Still Here

    Made for the filmmaker’s uncle, a painter and a gay man who died violently in 2001, this silent, hand-processed film marks an enduring presence with bold brush strokes. When the body is absent the shadows remain. “Still Here” consists of a series of spontaneous, single-take performances that have been edited in-camera. It is at once a eulogy and an act of defiance against the crime that ended Davis Buller’s life.

  • Bye

    If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, you’re going to get what you deserve. Based on a time in the director’s past and his pet fish, this short piece looks at the point in his life when having the beautiful boyfriend just wasn’t enough.

  • My Niagara

    “An inspired and resonant portrait of tenuous teen sensuality emerging from seamless suburban facades.” – David McIntosh, Toronto Festival of Festivals “‘My Niagara’ is definitely set in Toronto for people who know Toronto. But I wanted it to be read both ways, the character to be either Japanese Canadian or Japanese American. It’s also a matter of political self-definition, of what it means to be Asian American or Asian Canadian… It’s a matte of dissolving boundaries, about collapsing categories, as much as about self definition.” – Helen Lee, Fuse Magazine, Fall 1993

  • Subrosa

    “Subrosa” traces a young woman’s journey to Korea, the land of her birth, to find the mother she’s never known. This exquisitely crafted drama probes the idealized, often false constructions of cultural and maternal identities wrought by the adoptee’s return. “Subrosa” tracks the unnamed heroine from a sterile adoption agency office to seedy bars and motel rooms on neon strips, then to a stark U.S. army camp town and the bustling flower markets of Seoul. Though her path to self-destruction and ultimate self-revelation ironically and tragically mirrors that of her imagined biological mother, the past remains elusive to her, the…