Genres: experimental

  • Jack

    Six months after his long voyage into this world, Jack takes his place in the high chair. While reproduction is his birthright, he is puzzled by a strange creature with glass eyes, with a motor in place of a heart. For months there was only sound and now there are only pictures.

  • Ultraworld, The

    An organic trance-like experimental film. Natural landscape transformed into moving abstract paintings. Multi-layered traveling mattes and kaleidoscopic trance-inducing colours. All the images for this film were shot outside in the summer and then treated with optical printing. Music by EAR and The Spiritualized.

  • Canadian Pacific

    Vancouver harbour, with its railyards, mountains and passing ships, is a vista in fluid transformation as three winter months are reviewed in ten minutes. What interested me about the shot were the horizontals: train tracks, the water, the mountains, the sky. In the way those four elements would change. (DR) Can be projected alone or in double-screen format with Canadian Pacific II.

  • Bear Girl: Dog Boy

    Animal folklore is portrayed through cut-out animation in order to paint the complexities of surviving as a sexual being in the Twenty First Century.

  • Burning

    A multiplicity of diverse images – cut together rhythmically flicker with energy fire, light, life. “Your life is like a candle. Whether you are aware of it or not, it is burning.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  • Cherries in the Snow (an Ode to Joan Nestle)

    An ode to Joan Nestle and all the other fabulous femmes who came before me.

  • Canadian Pacific ll

    Designed as a companion piece to “Canadian Pacific.” Shot from a window two storeys higher, on the fourth floor of the next building east from the artist’s studio of the previous year: December 1974 to February 1975. Can be projected alone or in double-screen format with Canadian Pacific.

  • Friend

    Relationships are never simple. Something as seemingly simple as “friend” is complex and layered. Through personal Super 8 footage, the filmmaker examines his relationship with someone who is more than “just a friend,” uncovering the things that held the two together and the things that drew them apart.

  • Come Here

    Apparently, I do not speak the language of dogs.

  • Canal

    The imagery of “Canal“ captures the activity of freighters, ship’s crews, dock workers and the historical masonry that the original Welland Canal was constructed from… The film is about going into my “own world of youth” and spontaneously documenting the canal environment as an adult. “Through Kerr’s use of both colour and black and white film stocks, selectively chosen to contrast present with past events, and also through his combination of imagery and text, he invokes the canal as a living presence. The canal itself becomes witness to all events that have occurred or will occur along it. Returned to…