A work of comedy, a work of art. The content is debatable, but the colour is good and the soundtrack is interesting. Just like an experimental film.
Short film , Experimental
CANADA | 3 minutes | 1982
Performance poetry, charming crutches, blood and microphones - a typical morning routine.
CANADA | 2 minutes | 1985
An innovative experimental animated film that makes moving images with a photocopy machine. Through bizarre images and a pulsing electronic musical score, the filmmakers have created a mind expanding work that will long remain in your memory.
Short film , Animation
CANADA | 5 minutes | 1980
Ink is lifted directly from the page in a physical adaptation of the Bullfinch Press book of the same title. Folk traditions converge in this cameraless animation on 16mm.
CANADA | 4 minutes | 2013
An experimental camera-less animation piece worked directly on black leader.
CANADA | 2 minutes | 1995
A first exploration of narrative, Isolating Landscapes hints at relationship woes by mixing both spare and lush hand-crafted imagery with confessional text. Beautifully minimal scenes give way to denser moments, as when an ice-sculpture of an anatomical heart is hung, lantern-like, over a darkening street.
CANADA | 5 minutes | 2007
Three guides accompany us on a road trip away from time... and towards the transformative end of the road, space...
CANADA | 7 minutes | 2007
Structured around the recollection of a premonitory dream, fragmented memories from the period leading up to the death of the filmmaker’s mother were projected on to natural textures and surfaces, re-photographed, composited and processed until the memories became abstracted representations of the evolution, degradation and disintegration of memory and the physical self.
CANADA | 6 minutes | 2015
At the Canadian National Spelling Bee speller Darryl Nepinak stumbles upon a familiar word.
Short film , Fiction
CANADA | 2 minutes | 2008
The attempts of a young man (Neale) to consummate his love for a young woman (Heck) are thwarted by a fish monger (Fehr). The woman's beloved (Gottli) cuts bark fish.
CANADA | 4 minutes | 1999
FILM(knout) concentrates on a young woman who sets down to the task of tying rope. Meanwhile she has the same idea, and a confrontation of self endures.
CANADA | 10 minutes | 1999
IKWÉ is an experimental film that weaves the narrative of one woman’s (IKWÉ) intimate thoughts with the teachings of her grandmother, the Moon, creating a surreal narrative experience that communicates the power of thoughts and personal reflection.
CANADA | 5 minutes | 2009
Through situational vignettes, gains + losses illustrates Supnet’s thoughts on death and other personal, day-to-day anxieties. Made as a goodbye letter to a deceased beloved, the work touches on internal grief, tempered with a playful sense of humour and lo-fidelity charm.
CANADA | 4 minutes | 2011
Atomic positive propaganda and historical accounts of nuclear explosions infiltrate the daily existence of a family living in a town supported by atomic bomb production.
CANADA | 4 minutes | 2009
A group of infants with electric guitars compose a shocking violent punk rock song which surprises, saddens and offends their mothers.
CANADA | 5 minutes | 1983
Two teenage psychic wanabees experiment in reading each other’s minds with unpredictable and hilarious results. A colourful homage and parody of the mid 60's NFB experimental films and the late Arthur Lipsett. (“Very nice, very nice”)
CANADA | 5 minutes | 2000
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