Genres: queer

  • ars memorativa

    ars memorativa is an experimental documentary in four chapters that examines what is left behind when someone passes away and how memory traces emerge from the remaining artifacts and memories. the four people intersected with the directors life in a variety of ways and their stories are shared in a mix of forms: hand processed celluloid, digital animation, audio interview and home movies.

  • Solstice Moon

    A glamour girl is lost in a play while trying to identify herself sexually in a male dominant world.

  • unexplained as yet

    The vernacular of gender identity is ever growing and changing, yet many continue to live beyond these definitions, defying language and category; we are unknown, akin to mythical creatures. Multiple exposures of a single roll of Super 8 film allow a brief glimpse into the heart of this chimera: to be unidentified…unexplained.

  • What I Want / What I Have

    Incongruities between body and gender become an obstacle for lovers as they navigate the painfully awkward rift between dysphoria and desire. 

  • de(con)struct

    Double exposed and edited entirely in camera this work plays with ideas of gender expression and creation while addressing the possibility of conflicting aspects of one’s self identity: the perpetual construction and deconstruction of gender.

  • Tonight It’s Me

    A hustler and a trans woman meet up randomly for a late night tryst. Over the course of the night, the unlikely pair confess to some uncomfortable secrets and discover hidden truths. The two realize that they share a genuine and intimate experience much deeper than a hook-up.

  • The Foxy Merkins

    Two lesbian hookers wind their way through a world of bargain-hunting housewives and double-dealing conservative women in this subversive buddy comedy. An homage to and riff on iconic male hustler films.

  • Former Models

    A public and private history undo themself(ves) as they mutually encounter the trials of Labor, Love, Loss and Planned Obsolescence. A body desires its Other: a simulation is transgressed and the ultimate price is paid- “No-body is above The Law.” In this docu-narrative, the tragic story of Milli Vanilli’s Robert Pilatus and his descent into a post-racial and post-gendered pure image is told through appropriated video footage. A fabricated narrative conceived by the artist collides with Pilatus’ public biography in a technologically mediated flash of desire and information. This video is dedicated to the very real life of Robert Pilatus, 1965-1998.  

  • The Dancer and The Crow

    Who we are on the outside does not always represent who we are on the inside. When one man takes a closer look at his inner self, he discovers the beauty he has been hiding from the world. He decides to stop hiding and embrace who he truly is.

  • Monster Mash

    A Halloween hookup turns into something more for a pair of morbid misfits costumed as Horror Cinema’s most iconic female characters. Monster Mash is a queer valentine to horror cinema, paying homage while vilifying the genre’s homophobic elements through subversion, appropriation and recontextualization, The film is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Toronto and Ontario Arts Councils.