Language: English

  • Christ Church – Saint James

    In the spring of 1998, Christ Church – Saint James, a historic black church in Toronto’s Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained were walls and a pit, and over subsequent years, the site was overtaken with graffiti. This film has taken on the layered form of the site itself: the space and its surfaces becoming tangled and multiple, the grid of a stone-filled window giving geometric form to simultaneously occurring images of concrete, nature, waste, paint, and sky. Music by John Butcher.

  • Manor Road

    Trains travel to and from a fixed point in space beneath a variable coloured horizon.

  • on the day it started there wasn’t a cloud in sight

    it was about 10 minutes to five o’clock when it descended upon the city.

  • Where Are the Dolls

    “Where Are the Dolls” follows a woman as she embarks on a late-night journey through an unfamiliar urban landscape, searching for something she cannot name. The film is inspired by the poem “Where are the dolls who loved me so….” by Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911 – 1979). An impressionistic dream that emerges from the woman’s subconscious, the film navigates issues of femininity, intimacy and sexuality. It features Megan Follows in the lead role, known to audiences around the world as “Anne” in “Anne of Green Gables.”

  • Forsaken

    In “Forsaken”, Phillips again abstracts images selected from found footage, this time exploring such techniques as contact printing and hand tinting and toning. Muscle men, machinery, and building climbers become foreboding figures in this darkly apocalyptic film.

  • Deviations from the Wheel

    Percussive reedit of military tech videos and their heavy metal soundtrack.

  • Man That Got Away, The

    A musical documentary that tells the true life story of Trevor’s great-uncle Jimmy in six original songs.

  • Putting the “I” in Trans

    On June 27, 2011, the Toronto Star newspaper ran an article titled “Gay Activism Makes Comeback.” They just didn’t exactly proofread it. Filmed on location at the 2011 Trans Pride March in Toronto, Canada.

  • Cross Your Fingers

    Su-yeon, a manicurist in a hair salon in Brixton, South London, is a good Catholic girl. But when punk girl Maya walks into the salon, Su-yeon is confronted with new feelings and desires.

  • CHRISTEENE “Workin’ On Grandma”

    In “Workin’ on Grandma,” the 5th installment of the CHRISTEENE Video Collection, burnt memories and “deviled pussy holes” string themselves along the faded lines of CHRISTEENE’s family tree, all tucked in tight under a blanket of Korean karaoke dreams.