Super 8 reels of Paris catwalks I shot in 1979/1980 were supposed to become an experimental short meditation on couture culture. Its authority has unraveled some since and Deleuze’s definition of style: “creating a foreign language in one’s own language,” encouraged me to loosen the threads of this pursuit. To ponder how fashion and style are interwoven but also influenced by individual flare and whimsy, I stitched together Coco Chanel, Courrèges, Cole Porter and...
Short film , Experimental
UNITED STATES | 9 minutes | 2014
"Time seen through image is a time out of sight." -Jean-Luc Godard (Nouvelle Vague, 1990)?A film that revisits and reclaims in broken images Jean-Luc Godard’s Nouvelle Vague, which premiered at Cannes in 1990. The video offers a rhythmical and photographical reinterpretation of the film’s highly experimental soundtrack.
CANADA | 8 minutes | 2015
A color explosion sparkles, bubbles, and fractures in this hand-crafted 16mm film. Reeves utilized an array of mediums and direct-on-film techniques to create this exuberant, psychedelic morsel of cinema as material. But it speaks of the end of one era or another, a time for letting go and celebration. For the soundtrack, Reeves mixed samples from rusty, dusty old machines, records, and electric waves to create an aural passage through technological progress.
UNITED STATES | 3 minutes | 2015
Morning...came a day early is a poetic study of mortality, based on found footage from the archives of the Nuefield Foundation for the History of Ideas, 1964. Morning...came a day early is based on the principles of imagist poetry; the language of common speech towards clear expression without sentiment. (Richard Kerr)
CANADA | 10 minutes | 2015
Barbaric rhythm
Short film , Other
CANADA | 3 minutes | 2015
1965: Dimitri and Christine travel through the Near and Middle East by car. A travelogue between the persistence of memory and subjectivity.
FRANCE | 24 minutes | 2015
Chromatic Aberration is a film which explores the early technologies of colour filmmaking drawn from the archives of George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Featuring vibrant close-ups of eyes from fledgling archival experiments in colour film, Chromatic Aberration turns the cinematic lens in on itself: from the prosthetic recording eye of the camera, to an evocation of the abstract inner screen of one's eyelids. Satz has drawn inspiration from a scene in Powell and...
UNITED KINGDOM | 9 minutes | 2014
Set amidst the snowdrifts of a desolate prairie winter, a weather-beaten lodge provides refuge for a disparate group of locals and travellers. Unlikely bonds form as each individual finds a way to move past isolation, freeing the lodge — and themselves — of the memories that haunt them.
CANADA | 16 minutes | 2015
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