Genres: experimental

  • Slide

    Through a simple act of child’s play, a young boy confronts both his parents’ overwhelming protection and his own very real fears. “Slide” is an animated short film whose narrative centres around the metaphor of being handicapped. Even loving parents hand us crutches; what we do with them is up to us.

  • Academy Stripper

    Using a “found” piece of fifties strippy teasy dance as the basis for rotoscope, I drew/traced/colored the dance and added echoes of images from family footage and various and sundry odds/ends including birds elephants and of course the academy leader countdown number thingee that we will soon see no more of…and I used the original sax track off the original found piece with some blips and o-pops…

  • Jane’s Window

    “My grandmother cherished her large dining room window for the opening it afforded her onto the world. From this perspective she would espy the arrival of friends and family, contemplate the change of seasons and reflect on time past. On the shelves of this window she collected mementos of a childhood in China, life as an artist, and the travels in between. Combining images of my own travels through Japan and China with images of the home my grandparents built, ‘Jane’s Window’ reflects on the passing down of memory, curiosity and creativity across generations.” (CK) Selected screenings: Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto,…

  • Cave, The

    After my first experience in a dark cave, I remember brief glimpses of images that were imaginary and real. No duplicate film prints or video copies of “The Cave” exist. This hand-made 35mm silent original film is intended to change and evolve with each projection.

  • Shaving Shania (2004 Images Fest Trailer)

    This silent 35mm film can be installed and projected as a continuous loop or just as one single viewing. “Shaving Shania” was commissioned as a trailer for the Images Film and Video Festival in 2004. The word IMAGE is broken down into the phrase, “I AGE” and is laid over found footage of a 1960’s film idol in a state of “cinematic”ecstasy.

  • Spare Change

    a 3 minute cameraless animated film. telling of the myth of the phoenix using every day objects

  • Raw

    a 5 min cameraless animation film . fossil documents moving through time and space.

  • Une Petite Mort

    If you set him free can he still be loved?

  • Flamingo

    In “Flamingo” an old lady tells the filmmaker about her life as they ride a Las Vegas bus: her arrival in the city in 1960, her career as a casino cashier and her recent personal tragedies. Her story is retold over Kodachrome Super 8 images of neon signs along the Las Vegas strip.

  • Unendangered

    Packed with suspense, murder and porn, “Unendangered” follows the adventures of a blonde with a gun sent on a sex mission by a Greek statue. Shot on Super 8 using collage images, cryptic inter-titles and a swelling score, the film condenses an absurd crime story to a fast-paced and colourful four-minute romp.