Genres: experimental

  • Towards Everyday Lightning

    Contrast itself can be seen as a thematic symbol in this work that plays on enlightenment as an elusive but ever-present possibility. It employs Zoroastrian semiotics and Zen-like circumstances to punctuate the appearances and flows of quotidian labour that have challenged the human condition since Sisyphus.

  • About Flight: The Surly Bonds of Earth

    In this collage of simple images from everyday life, such as feet and butterflies, birds and flowers, the pedestrian nature of human origins is found at play amongst images of a compromised nature. From vignettes of machine-fed birds that mirror a fascination with wings, this film reflects on some of the darker fruits of man’s desire for the capacity for flight. Using both colour and B&W stock, “About Flight” is mainly processed by hand and modulated with colour tints, toning and both in-camera and darkroom effects.

  • Loon Lights

    In the habitat of the Loons a dynamic force is discovered. Its rhythmic play shifts and darts amongst the elements that host it, sometimes transposing its form in moods that plumb the amplitude of all that is visible by day or night. Chromatic intervention surprises moments of pastoral bliss with symphonic shatterings, borne on the medium that is the sustenance of film itself.

  • Dominion

    A reworking of images of Princess Diana drawn from a CNN tribute called “The People’s Princess.” The isolated and manipulated images point to England’s colonial past and to the elusiveness of a media image.

  • Nahrung, Symphonie von Großer Bedeutung

    What do we do with our food when we aren’t eating it? “Nahrung, Symphonie von Großer Bedeutung” heralds the coming of the great Food Symphony craze, when coming generations of film and video enthusiasts will turn their unwavering cinematic eye to the formal investigation of our topical, functional, utilitarian and deviant applications of this Stuff-Which-Ought-Really-Be-Eaten. German with English sub-titles.

  • Attack of the Naïve: Ages Four to Twenty-One in Thirteen Unlucky Vignettes

    A confessional documentary on the artist’s schooling in love from the cradle to the crib. Scenes from movies, television shows and commercials are processed through analogue video techniques to yield a pop-art sensible understanding of the North-American Love Experience.

  • Paradise Lost

    A poetic assembly of 1950s’ and 1960s’ Soviet film print fragments and graphic text that elicits a romantic tale of an individual’s fall from grace.

  • Step of Three

    “Step of Three” is an experimental study of a choreographed dance, exploring modulations of colour and performance. Three takes of the dance are performed for an improvisational camera, then reduced to a single colour channel and staggered in time. When superimposed upon each other, the channels restore colours to their original form, distinct moments echoing each other in acknowledgement of rehearsal and performance.

  • Profile

    “Profile” takes place during a short cab ride through New York City and the subconscious of the passenger. The short conversation between cabbie and passenger is at once mundane, evocative, and unnerving.

  • Closet Case

    “In this quintessential ‘coming out’ film, a grinding rhythm leads us through a passage of closed doors, as a man struggles to break free from his literal and social confinement.” – Images Festival of Independent Film & Video catalogue, 1995