Genres: hand-processed

  • Thorn Picker, The

    A camera-less, hand-painted animation inspired by the Roman sculpture La Spinozza, which depicts a young woman removing a thorn from the sole of her foot.

  • Dandelions

    “Lyrical and full of mirth, this filmmaker wonders out loud in her first film: ‘How do I make myself at home in a landscape made foreign to me?’ Wilkinson looks at her self – black – and ponders in the white landscape called Canada how can she ‘enjoy the flowers’ as she cartwheels with great panache through fields of them. What kind of relationship to the land can she have in a place where she sees herself but where others constantly ask: Where are you from? Wilkinson’s existence vis a vis the land seems to lie somewhere in between the…

  • Full Moon Darkness

    A painful but enlightening film on the controversial subject of mental illness – or more particularly, the myth of mental illness. It is a frightening piece of work in that it asks us to assume responsibility for ourselves, our actions. How, after listening to Dr. Thomas Szasz, can we blame someone else anymore? Equally frightening is the realization that mental illness could touch our lives, not just someone else’s. Without attempting to give an answer, “Full Moon Darkness” raises many valid questions – questions we should ask ourselves at least once.

  • Gadflies

    A reunion after twenty-five years.

  • House of Pain

    “A bold and startling work filled with images at once beautiful and profoundly disturbing, the film is a hybrid of DeSade, Dali and Bataille, a nightmare that takes place somewhere between sleep and death. A profound testament of the body at its limits, whose fantastical vantages lend the body a rare grace… Leave the inner child at home.” – Bill Evans, Metro Cinema “The Canadian avant-garde has found its Salo, and its name is ‘House of Pain.’ Prolific, hugely talented Toronto/Vancouver/Toronto experimental filmmaker Mike Hoolboom’s new feature must be the most transgressive Canadian film ever made. Shot in black-and-white and…

  • Layton Symphony

    The film conjures up images and sounds of Canadian poet Irving Layton through various media sources. The subject is the image of Layton and the surface of the film image. The footage was optically printed and hand-processed. “I find these images disturbing; I see my own death in them.” – Irving Layton

  • Across

    “Across” is about the sometimes difficult journey from one psychic space to another. From a place in the abusive past, to a place called survival.” – Liz Czach, Toronto International Film Festival “Across” has a gentler power, furiously and passionately engaging with the unobtrusive landscape to uncover what most of us have yet to discover.” – Take One, Fall 1997

  • Ay Que Pelos!

    “Ay Que Pelos!” is a hand-processed experimental film about anxiety disorders and panic attack syndrome. This bilingual film (interweaving English and Spanish) incorporates personal experiences, family history, case studies and medical texts, and uses these to examine the perception and (mis)understanding of the disease. The film is visually structured to reflect and invoke the experience of panic attack.

  • View Never Changes, The

    Seething grain and swirling textures of Super 8 processed in a pail. Film as memory … an elaborate reconstruction perpetually shifting through the course of time. And so is this … a personal recollection of the intensity of what it may have been like to be a child. “Carefully composed as both a gentle and highly critical portrait of the filmmaker’s relationship with his father, this beautifully hand-processed film manages to offer a balanced study heavy with the weight of family history and family ties.” – Alex Mackenzie

  • Big Show, The

    “The Big Show” is a light reading letter for its audience, offering up in a succession of printed intertitles, language as the event that “takes place.” Processed by hand in the filmmaker’s bathtub, the titles struggle to speak beyond a surface hopelessly disfigured in their development.