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  • Wheel, The

    A mother breastfeeds her child. A woman peels an orange. Originally created for installation, “The Wheel” has also screened as a single-channel video work.

  • Burning Bush

    “A virtuosic use of video sets this burning bush alight with crimson colour and transcendent allusions. “ – TIFF Wavelengths Series, 2010 “In Eastern Orthodoxy’ a tradition exists that the flame Moses saw was God’s Uncreated Energies / Glory , manifested as light, thus explaining why the bush was not consumed. Hence, it is not interpreted as a miracle in the sense of an event, which only temporarily exists, but is instead viewed as Moses being permitted to see these Uncreated Energies / Glory, which are considered to be eternal things; the Orthodox definition of salvation…” – New World Encyclopedia…

  • Ville Marie

    An optically printed dream of falling, both gorgeous and ominous. The body in mid-air. A canyon of high-rise buildings. Jury Prize for Best Canadian Work, WNDX Festival (Winnipeg, MB), 2010

  • brouillard #1

    Thirty-two passages from a small path in the woods towards the edge of a lake are layered onto one another.

  • State of Mind

    Live sound performance/installation: “State of Mind” is conceived as an exploration of the mind through the basic elements that constitute the activity of the brain: light and electricity. The performance uses photocells to transform light variations into electrical signals and thus, into sound. It can be shown as a single-channel projection, live performance or installation; it all depends on the context where it is shown as well as the state of mind of the moment. Every time it is shown, the editing changes as well as the approach of the sound/image relationship to convey the natural instability of one’s brain…

  • Shutter

    “Shutter” tracks the rising sun, the lengthening shadows and the darkening day of a total solar eclipse. “Shutter” is a formal exploration of the phenomenon of the sun eclipsing objects in the natural world. Inspired by footage of friend and amateur astronomer Andreas Gada’s 16mm recording of the 1980 total solar eclipse, this work captures the beauty, complexity and terror of the shifting light that precedes and accompanies a solar eclipse. Shadow, focal variance and illumination of earth-bound nature conspire along the course to the incomparable moment of totality.

  • SEE/SAW

    A film about seeing and having seen. Completely hand-processed and painstakingly edited, ‘SEE/SAW’ is comprised of a series of iris fades – commonly found in silent films to signal the beginning or end of a scene – re-appropriated as a formal approach that frames the desire to see and to remember. Dichotomies surface in the high contrast images – opening/closing, beginning/ending, light/dark – it is also a deeply personal film that faces the imminence of not being.

  • Blue

    “Blue” serves as the filmmaker’s exploration of the sights, sounds, form, and function of the historical Johnson Street Bridge in Victoria, BC. Built in 1924 as a bascule-style drawbridge, designed by the same company that would later build the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, “Big Blue” is currently at a politically controversial crossroads. After sitting for years in dire need of seismic upgrades and maintenance, Victoria city council pressed forth with an expensive plan for demolition and replacement. While citizens fought back with a petition, which forced a referendum, demolition remains the official course of action. Also presented as…

  • City Under Siege

    “City Under Siege” examines contemporary representation of war in the media. The particular image under investigation first became predominant in the broadcast news media during the Gulf War. It is of a wide, high angle shot, recorded at night from the roof of a building looking out over a city, usually Baghdad. The shot stays static while the city below is bombarded in a fire show. There does not appear to be any life represented down there, no blood or exploded body parts. There doesn’t even seem to be a camera operator as the image never moves or reacts to…

  • Beyond Enchantment

    Where all is static motion; where music and light become one; where change and motion become one; and where the end is the beginning. Black-and-white cut-out animation with touches of color. Ladies of the past encounter science and natural phenomena.