Genres: short

  • As close as your voice can call

    A film about language, about the way trauma inflects grief, and about learning to speak with the dead. This work engages a personal archive of children’s books owned by my late mother, many of which feature her signature. I had encountered Deanna Bowen’s “sum of the parts: what can be named”  (2010), which attuned me to the lasting power of these traces, so I began to think of the signatures as a connection to my mother. I decided to use them to perform a kind of ad-hoc seance where I learned to copy her signature exactly. This forgery opened me…

  • The Taking of Jordan (All American Boy)

    Jordan, an amateur adult performer, recalls the horror of his many former lives.

  • Solace

    Even in the most volatile, desperate and loneliest moment there exists the possibility for grace. Two strangers meet. One moment, one sentence, one choice sets their lives on a dramatically different course. A poetically urban exploration of violence and grace.

  • Sand In Her Shoes

    A fantastical, lyrical exploration of a woman’s healing journey created through evocative visual images and sound incorporating elements of ritual and dream. Filmed in the Chihuahua Desert of New Mexico and in a constructed room with trees growing out from the walls. The details of texture, light and colour in the treatment of physical space and the creation of environments become metaphorical expressions of emotion.

  • Only the crow knows him / Seul le corbeau le connaît

    The misrepresentation of images through the story of an old man who lives in the street. One day he sees photographs of himself in an art gallery. He sees himself portrayed as an old homeless man. He has no history, no childhood, no mystery.

  • This is a Crisis

    An anonymous bureaucrat traipses around the City of Toronto, repurposing hostile architecture as their playground. Featuring spliced audio of former mayor John Tory’s victory speeches from 2014, 2018, and 2022 municipal election nights, bleak scenes are juxtaposed with a heavy-handed narrative of progress and inclusion. Documented on January 31, 2023—weeks before Tory would resign—this public performance and accompanying video artwork offer a critique of procedural fetishism, the surveillance and criminalization of poverty, and what cities become when they leave the most marginalized behind.

  • Over the Island

    On the island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the act of leaving has become ingrained into the culture. Since the closure of its main industries, the Glace Bay coal mine and the Sydney steel plant, many young families have been forced to relocate, migrating thousands of miles in the pursuit of work. ‘Over the Island’ is an experimental documentary that follows a mother traveling back home to the island, and a filmmaker attempting to connect the past with the present. This film deconstructs the concept of ‘home’, and investigates how one’s sense of belonging, self identification and familial relationship are…

  • Glide

    * official selection Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn 2024 * official selection Athens Animfest – 3rd Prize Experimental Competition * official selection Les Sommets du cinema d’animation, Montreal * official selection The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film FestivaL A meditation on the radically different means of creation available to us, Jason Zumpano’s latest short “Glide” is an invitation to the mythopoetic and the various materials, from the painterly to the digital, that bring it into existence. Against Matisse-like colour palettes and impressionistic-resolutions, the central figure of “Glide” is a woman floating on a lantern-helmed rowboat. We float through various angles and…

  • The Big Film Series

    A collection of nine 35mm hand-processed film portraits, shot using an early motion picture hand-cranked camera. ​The Big Film Series was first exhibited as an expanded cinema series reminiscent of the dawn of cinema. In these performative film screenings, Leopoldo Bloom would create an intimate screening experience by operating a hand-cranked projector among the audience rather than anonymously from an isolated projection booth. While working as a lab technician at Colorlab, Bloom was able to produce restoration prints of the camera originals in this collection, enabling the portraits to be screened at 24 frames per second.

  • June

    June is a film diary shot on the west coast of the United States during the first few years of the twenty-first century. It is a silent visual accompaniment to my first book How to Transition on Sixty-Three Cents a Day. This hand-processed 35mm Ektachrome slide film was shot using still photographic cameras.