Genres: experimental

  • Pink/Blue

    A split-screen of a white wedding and the Superbowl exhibits gender stereotypes in popular culture.

  • Robots

    A cameraless animation that spins, spins, spins… we are the robots.

  • Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The

    Using the cut-out style of animation, I tried to marry the classic engravings of Gustave Dore to the classic poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge through a classic narrator: Orson Welles. It’s a long opium dream of the old Mariner (Welles) who wantonly killed the albatross and suffered the pains of the damned for it. (LJ) Original narration by Orson Welles; made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. “The film, far from being a mere visual accompaniment to the poem, has an integrity of its own. Throughout the film, serpents, butterflies and other creatures from Jordan’s…

  • Suburban Is a State of Mind

    Nostalgia appropriated from Hollywood soundtracks addresses the problem of artistic innovation in a post-modern age by using videotaped images projected from a broken Super 8 projector.

  • Urban Caustic

    Toronto, love it or hate it; the overwhelming chaos of the city, the noise and smog. Shot in three different mediums – miniDV, 16mm and Super 8 – hand-processing attempts to subvert the reign of video and “take back film” by shooting video onto film. The processes involved in making this film rely on the physical interaction with the film, creating a personal and intimate chemical reaction. The random rhythm of the optical printing, the scratchy, worn-out look of the hand-processing and the aural collage evoke an emotional and experiential response to living in this crazy town we call Toronto.

  • Eros and Wonder

    “Eros and Wonder” is an extended journey into image manipulation which uses a hybrid of analogue and digital techniques. Chemical transformations of the image are combined with electrical modifications to produce a fantasia of vibrantly coloured alchemical forms that suggest an erotic wonder at all the world’s surfaces.

  • Passing

    A poem about breaking the ties that bind, “Passing” allows the viewer her/his own experience of place, remembrances, love, and the present.

  • Elegy

    “Elegy” is a dance WITH film rather than ON film. The cinematic and choreographic elements work together to evoke a poem of lament or mourning- a poem that explores the inextricable link between life and death.

  • PoeTix

    PoeTix is radical and mundane Three word poems Edited into perversion and delirium Verbal refrigerator poetry Following Aristotle’s dramatic structure Creating a heap for really cheap

  • Varieties of Religious Experience, The

    “The Varieties of Religious Experience” is made in response to Pope John Paul ll’s visit to Canada in 2002. This experimental short looks at the Catholic church’s official position on homosexuality. A Catholic boy leaving church cruises a passerby. Full of sacred and profane imagery: church spires, roses, Christ on the cross, candles, lace underwear.