Genres: experimental

  • Make Me Smile

    Meet Daddy K, a dancin’ queen with a sparkling eye and a shaking booty. It would take a pretty tough guy to resist this charmer. Romeo might be just that strong – tune in and find out. Cruising has never looked this good.

  • Fallout Food

    “Fallout Food” is a collaboration between two working-class women, produced as a commissioned work for Trinity Square Video’s “Eat” themed program. With similar childhood histories – having both grown up with working-class, single mothers on a fixed budget – powdered milk and boxed mashed potatoes are just two of the memorable items from our “fallout food”-filled kitchen cupboards. As young adults leaving home, visits to local food banks and even shoplifting produce for dinner were regular fare. Today we have both become rather seasoned food geeks. Flavoured by the ideas of class, food access, nutrition and time, we interviewed ourselves…

  • Time We Killed, The

    “The Time We Killed” is a lush B&W experimental narrative that portrays the life and imaginings of a writer unable to leave her New York City apartment. Robyn Taylor tries to comprehend and fight her growing agoraphobia by looking into her own past and confronting the world events of the present (from a murder-suicide next door to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq). Robyn’s obsessive ruminations threaten to drive her deeper into the solitude of an illusory world, until a personal encounter with death prompts her to leave the safety of home once again. Documentary material, scripted and improvised scenes are…

  • Circle

    A cinematic document of one year, shot day by day from the same viewpoint.

  • Almost Forgot My Bones

    A lyrical video-poem which depicts the transformation of an African-Canadian woman’s identity as she goes in search of her roots. In order to find herself she must travel past skin into bone – to the root, the secret inside identity. Almost forgot my bones In this home without no mirrors Almost forgot my bones In this home without no mirrors Of myself, my skin, my kin, my hidden Of myself, my skin, my kin, my hidden

  • mary/me

    “mary/me” is a handmade cameraless film which uses collage techniques to sculpt the images and sound. The visual composition was made by meticulously cutting, shaping and collaging pages from “Cosmopolitan” magazine onto the film strip, combined with handpainting on the film. The sound treatment is created by pasting the words of an article from “Cosmo” titled “Why Men Marry Some Women and Not Others” directly onto the film’s optical soundtrack, with the letters themselves forming the audio as their graphic shape is translated into sound. “‘mary/me’ is a stunning experimental collage film that explores the prevalence of the virgin-whore dichotomy…

  • Preserving Cultural Traditions

    “Preserving Cultural Traditions” explodes the visual field as a strangely familiar, but unidentified, voice comments on the rise of digital technology . Selected Screenings: 48th London Film Festival, 2004; Viennale Vienna International Film Festival, 2004

  • Green

    “My first foray into collage animation uses low-fi techniques, such as a photocopier, to illustrate a story in limerick form. The limericks tell of a place where creativity is suppressed and all acts of resistance are covered over with white paint. It also illustrates a character who displays an open sexuality, both queer and polyamorous. The DIY aesthetic calls up notions of subversion of the dominant culture through its ues of low-tech and hand-made traces.” – Juliana Saragosa Selected screenings: Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival, Toronto, 2004

  • Amoré

    Regular 8 film goes through a camera once, then gets flipped and run through again. When processed, the film is split down the middle and spliced end-to-end. I performed (unrehearsed) for a regular 8 camera as a boy as the film ran through the first time, exposing the right side of the film. Then I flipped the reel around AND flipped the camera around as I performed as a girl (in reverse) on the left side. I processed the film by hand and did not split it, so that the performances happen side-by-side. There is no editing in this film…

  • ALL YOU CAN EAT

    A collage of Super 8mm 70’s porn that is bigger than life in 35mm. A sexy and fun smorgasbord – all you can eat in five minutes.