Genres: experimental

  • Body Scares

    “Body Scares” is a journey through four generations of women. Generation after generation the body is printed with secrets and wears all the memories of the past.

  • Zombie Business

    Zombie business is unleashed as the “invisible hand” of voodoo economics produces disposible people. Shot in Super 8, the film evokes the silent era, while also mixing B-movie horror, experimental cinema and political satire.

  • ZERO the inside story

    On a journey to find the origins of the number zero, a woman discovers more than she was expecting. The journey begins as a quest for the cultural roots of zero and how this concept touches human consciousness in unexpected ways. The search leads her to India, said to be the birthplace of the mysterious number, and the ancient city of Varanasi. There she maps her inner world onto the powerful mix of Hindu ritual and spirituality she encounters, finally confronting a traumatic event in her past. More than a film about the number that is not, “ZERO the inside…

  • Infunde Lumen Cordibus

    “INFUNDE LUMEN CORDIBUS was made using principles derived from Stephen Wolfram’s work on cellular automata (‘A New Kind of Science’) to determine the content and colour of the shots, their duration, and the time of their appearance: the palette of effects, and their rhythmical development… is entirely the result of computational processes that model natural events. John Cage instructed us that art should imitate nature in its manner of operation; I have tried to take the lesson. The music was composed, using related principles, by Colin Clark with the assistance of Josh Thorpe” (R. Bruce Elder). The film’s title translates…

  • Chrysalis

    Made in collaboration with Alwin Nikolais. Images of dancers in the Nikolais Dance Theatre Company are cinematically choreographed using a wide variety of film techniques from slow motion to pixillation. In the course of the film they pass through a series of transformations.

  • following the line of the web

    Creating an intricate visual map, photograms provide an opportunity to travel through the space of a spider’s web.

  • Snack Pack

    “Snack Pack” plays with the tensions between the director’s Mexican and Canadian identities.

  • Encounter in Space

    Set out in unknown and sinister territory, a man undertakes several adventures, fighting his enemies and alter-egos of his own personality. A promising sexual act is interrupted by eye surgery and the promise of introducing the man to his real self.

  • sea-ing

    This film playfully engages with the act of seeing and with every other sense that the phrase might prompt. “sea-ing” takes the viewer through the world of representations (magazine articles, texts and photographs on the topic of aquatic beings, the “sea”) to the world of presentations, where the actual beings (the starfish) light up our eyes and thus present themselves to our senses in their immediacy. The visual rhythms echo the experience of submerging under water: the initial shock to the sensory system, the rush of bodily reactions to the new environment, and then the subsequent calmness and engagement with…

  • Scintillating Flesh

    In a dark room holding a flashlight in my hand, I paint with light. Each stroke of light unveils an image and permits it to spill over to the adjacent film frames, thus breaking out of its rectangular prison while at the same time being woven into the fluidity of moving body, the whiteness of light, and the redness of flesh. Using the photogram technique and my body as a tool and a means to inscribe myself into this film, “Scintillating Flesh” is a self-inscription, where the filmmaker is not so much its subject but becomes its form.