Au bord de la rivière is an unblinking examination of the light and movement patterns that animate a river bank; an earthly mysticism in miniature, a professing of natural secrets hidden in plain sight.
Short film , Experimental
CANADA | 4 minutes | 2014
Nostalgia falls, a honeymoon, a holiday, an optical souvenir, the first true copy.Right angle memory of memory, Video Home System, the old landscape film.Souvenir is memory. Memento, a prayer of commemoration. White noise, water flow.
CANADA | 7 minutes | 2015
A meditation on our fantastic condition of mortality and impermanence …“The peacock painted on the window will never dance or speak. It is only the peacock that lived in the forest which used to speak, dance, and walk in a sweet manner.”
UNITED STATES | 12 minutes | 2015
Such could be the title of a Western. Or it could be an adventure film. Indeed, Into the Great White Open moves along unstable boundaries and investigates border crossings. Reliable conceptual territories, like abstract or figurative, are not permitted trespass in the land- and soundscapes created by Michaela Grill/Philip Jeck. The ground is unstable, the first shot already misleading: A slow-gliding camera views an Arctic Ocean horizon, drifting ice floes shimmer in the dimming twilight,...
AUSTRIA | 16 minutes | 2015
Journeys in Banff and Jasper National Parks, Alberta."A journey without arrival in the great tradition of Canadian landscape travelogues." - Richard Kerr
CANADA | 3 minutes | 2014
Drifting with the wonderful blooming of millions of mayflies on the waves of the Tisza river, "Vita Brevis" is a poem of the moment, an evocation of the fragile and fleeting dance of life.
Short film , Documentary
BELGIUM, France | 39 minutes | 2015
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