Genres: experimental

  • Chomont’s Selected Shorts #3

    FOR SALE ONLY Contains: Minor Revisions 11 min. COL SILENT 1979 The original idea was to approach the physical/metaphysical as the theme of nourishment, both spiritual and gastronomical. This was somewhat altered by three visits from a friend entering the US army. Razorhead 8 min COL SILENT 1981 The film was made on the request of the participants as a record of a two-day erotic ritual. 400 feet of film was shot and later permission was obtained to treat the materialas an aesthetic composition, approximately 250 feet long. Originally the film was intended as part of a series dealing with…

  • Open

    An abstract film of vertical horror, absence and descent (After Marcel Duchamp’s painting, ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’, 1912) composed in-camera by optically manipulating an individual frame of hand-painted film. With electronic music track by David McKenzie. The film frame was painted in a single stroke to imitate the blurring of images produced by the opening and closing of the eyelid; and by film slippage (a common fault, where damaged film runs through the camera or projector gate without stopping). Subtle movements of reflected light on the film surface and parallax camera motion animate the painting; which, in tandem with the…

  • Pour

    An abstract animation exploring the themes of attraction and repulsion, suspension and release. Formed through the delicate transformation of colours, textures and shapes painted on film. With music by David McKenzie.

  • Walk

    A dance video exploring body movement as visual music and conduction. Made in collaboration with the Scottish dancer Vanessa Smith Influenced by the music of John Cage and Butch Morris and the choreography of Rudolf Laban.

  • Double

    A two-screen projection exploring the alternate and simultaneous interplay of light and dark, silence and sound. Composed by optically manipulating abstract hand-painted film. Complimented by a haunting soundtrack by David McKenzie in which the human voice was digitally processed to reflect the movements of light on the film surface.

  • Nocturnal Admissions

    A home’s movie. A 153-year-old home collects and reveals the traces it inhabitants have left behind. A contemplation of the home-movie genre, “Nocturnal Admissions” explores the idea of home as a vessel of remembrance, silently collecting and holding the experiences of those who have lived there. An assimilation of old and new , it meshes past and present homes, film and digital technology, and a nostalgia which invokes the future.

  • Selections

    Sam, a young black man, is trapped inside a wooden cube, and is faced with the challenge of finding a way out. He reflects upon two projected memories from his past, and explores a mysterious bar code that appears on the cube wall. He finds himself struggling against a system of machines whose only goal is to manufacture racial profiles.

  • Critical Mass

    Shot on Super 8 and blown-up to 16mm for a dreamlike effect, “Critical Mass” is a strange, poetic vision of childhood. From its first vision sequence to its consequential conclusion, the film follows one boy’s wanderings, both internal and external, as he tries to make sense of his world. Life, death, time and place become interchangeable when he happens upon a dead crow, a barren hilltop, and a small boy who serves as a catalyst for his actions. “A low key tale of guttersnipe mysticism… ‘Critical Mass’ is heavy on mood and symbolism, with Cannizzaro drawing some beautiful compositions. What’s…

  • filth

    The housecall in “Filth” doesn’t go quite as planned when a simple cleaning job becomes a nightmare. A pixilated tale which combines both the action in the film and the action on the film.

  • ten thousand dreams

    I have no memories from that time… before kindergarten, before solid food, before any idea of what lay ahead. The images were shot a few hours after my baby boy had traversed the great divide between the warm rumbling universe of his mother’s womb and the morning light of our bed. (JP)