September 17th, 2012
I’m teaching a Time-Based Media class at OCAD University in Toronto this fall and Video for Artists in the Winter.
One Roll in the Blackness has been curated by Jim Hobbs into a show called 100 HUNDRED FOOT that is touring around the UK.
Towards a Vanishing Point shows at the Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria this October and at the Museum London on October 18.
Also in October, Tamalpais shows as part of the Alchemy Festival in the Scottish Borders.
June 3rd, 2012
I will be teaching Video For Artists at OCADU in June and a Film Workshop at Trent University from June to August.
Simultaneous Contrast shows in a program called “L’Autre urbain, la métropole post-moderne” at Mire in Nantes on June 6.
Phantoms and Genesee show at the Parkdale Film + Video Showcase in Toronto, June 21-24, 2012.
349 (for Sol LeWitt) shows at the Onion City Experimental Film Festival in Chicago, June 21-23, 2012.
May 2nd, 2012
Genesee premieres at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival this weekend (May 4-6). 349 (for Sol LeWitt) will also screen.
One Roll in the Blackness tours to the Spectacle Cinema in Brooklyn, NY with the rest of the Black Thorns in the Black Box program on May 6.
Nicky Hamlyn will be in Toronto to present his work at Early Monthly Segments on May 7. The screening will include one of my favourites of his — White Light.
Consider supporting the Temenos Kickstarter appeal. It’s an amazing project by an inspirational filmmaker.
April 4th, 2012
Towards a Vanishing Point will screen at the Images Festival (April 12-21) and in the CFMDC’s Market program at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival (April 26-May 1). I will be in attendance at both festivals.
The Free Screen/Wavelengths, TIFF Cinematheque, Toronto
(This post now redirects to the Free Screen category.)
March 1st, 2012
I was recently hired as the Programmer for The Free Screen, TIFF Cinematheque’s monthly experimental and independent film series. Info on the first two screenings (Jan Peacock on March 21 & Lewis Klahr on April 11) is available here.
I have a new article about the musician Olivia Block in the newest issue of Musicworks (#112).
Phantoms will have its international premiere at the Hong Kong International Film Festival on March 28 and April 5.
349 (for Sol LeWitt) will screen at the Ann Arbor Film Festival‘s 50th Anniversary (March 27-April 1). I will be in attendance at both festivals.
A short portrait film I did of Keiji Haino, One Roll in the Blackness, debuts at a screening for Black Thorns in the Black Box on March 1 in Kansas City, KS. It will show again in Chicago on March 23.
Oh, yeah, and here’s my 2011 Top Ten.
February 2nd, 2012
349 (for Sol LeWitt) will screen at this year’s Berlinale, February 9-18. Simultaneous Contrast will screen at The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge. I will be attendance for both festivals.
349 (for Sol LeWitt) will also screen at Antitube in Québec City, February 17 & 18.
lay claim to an island will screen at the Strange Beauty Film Festival in Durham, NC (February 16-18) and the Big Muddy Film Festival in Carbondale, IL (February 21-26).
January 3rd, 2012
Nicky Hamlyn included a thoughtful discussion about my film Tape Film in his article “Medium Practices”, available in Public #44: Experimental Media.
Towards a Vanishing Point will debuts as part of the LIFT 30th Anniversary Commissioning Project from January 19-21.
Schuh Schnell Service shows at the the 8 fest in Toronto during January 27-29, 2012.
lay claim to an island screens at the 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (January 28-February 5).
Towards a Vanishing Point
8 minutes, 16mm, color, silent, 2012
Footage shot in Coba, Mexico and the Siwa Oasis in Egypt and a found film from California serve as inspiration for a series of sketches on the notion of the vanishing point.
Commissioned for LIFT’s 30th Anniversary Celebration.
Distribution:
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Light Cone
Selected Screenings:
30 x 30 – Three Nights of Films for 30 Years of Filmmaking, Toronto, Canada, January 19-21, 2012
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, April 12-21, 2012
CFMDC Market Screening, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany, April 26-May 1, 2012
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, October 12-20, 2012
“30×30: 1 night of 16mm Films for 30 Years of LIFT”, Museum London, Canada, October 18, 2012
“A Tempting Fate: Inevitability and Scientific Fortune”, Aggregate Space, Oakland, California, March 1-16, 2013
Havana Film Festival, Cuba, December 8-17, 2016
December 7th, 2011
From December 16 to January 21, 2012, Phantoms is installed at the Aggregate Space (Oakland) as part of the Ostranenie: Reconsidering the Known show curated by Jennifer Rarick.
November 11th, 2011
I have a new article on the 2010 version of Reunion, a chess match originally staged in 1968 between Duchamp and Cage, in the newest issue of Musicworks (#111).
349 (for Sol LeWitt) shows at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley on November 16.
October 5th, 2011
I will be presenting my films alongside Tomonari Nishikawa at Emerson College on October 18.
Schuh Schnell Service screens at the inaugural Chicago 8: Small Gauge Film Festival on October 22.
Phantoms
14 minutes, 35mm, black & white, sound, 2012
“A study of the incongruous and iconic suspended monorail in Wuppertal Germany. Shot on super 8 and finished on 35mm film, Phantoms expertly employs the exaggerated grainy texture of the emulsion to suggest a netherworld out of time, both science fiction and ancient history, while an accompanying text muses on the vanity and folly suggested by the mysterious structure.” – Kate MacKay, Images Festival
Text by Ryan Kamstra. Financial assistance provided by the Ontario Arts Council.
Distribution:
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Light Cone
Selected Screenings:
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC, October 14–22, 2011
“Ostranenie: Reconsidering the Known”, curated by Jennifer Rarick, Aggregate Space, Oakland, California, December 16, 2011-January 21, 2012
Hong Kong International Film Festival, March 21-April 5, 2012
Parkdale Film + Video Showcase, Toronto, June 21-24, 2012
Light Cone Preview Show, Paris, September 13, 2012
Director’s Citation, 32nd Annual Black Maria Film + Video Festival, February, 2013
CFMDC Market Screening, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany, May 1-6, 2014
Les Rencontres Cinéma et Vidéo à Nice, November 25, 2022
The Ontario Arts Council is an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Schuh Schnell Service
3 minutes, Super 8 or 16mm, color, sound, 2009-2011
A simple intersection in Wuppertal, Germany becomes a microcosm of the patterns of everyday life. Cars trace the angles of the streets, pedestrians forge new paths and Wuppertal’s famed Schwebebahn turns our expectations upside-down. Shot on Super 8 in Wuppertal April 28, 2009.
Distribution:
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Light Cone
Selected Screenings:
Toronto Urban Film Festival, September 11 – 20, 2009
Chicago 8 Small Gauge Film Festival, October 21-23, 2011
the 8 fest 2012, Toronto, January 27-29, 2012
August 30th, 2011
349 (for Sol LeWitt) will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11.
From September 23 to October 16, the acrobat is installed at the Lexington Art League (Kentucky) as part of the Re:Play show curated by the Lexington Film League.
Phantoms will premiere at the Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria, BC during October 14–22, 2011.
One Roll in the Blackness
3 minutes, 16mm, b&w, 2011
“Heads thrash and dissolve in photodynamic nods of light as the guitar shreds a thick noisy pitch-black.
Time, space, and sonic waves are distorted through the trajectory that is motion. Evanescence is everything.
Featuring Keiji Haino.” – Amelia Ishmael
Keiji Haino, live in Toronto, June 22, 2011.
A single roll of film, shot one frame at a time.
Special thanks to Keiji Haino and Adam Rosen.
Selected Screenings:
Black Thorns in the Black Box, curated by Amelia Ishmael & Bryan Wendorf, Kansas City, KS, March 1; Chicago, March 23; Spectacle Cinema, Brooklyn, May 6; Hammer Museum, LA, August 1; ATA Space, San Francisco, August 5
One Hundred Foot, curated by Jim Hobbs, Latitude Festival, Suffolk, UK, July 15; Lo & Behold Gallery, London, UK, September 28, 2012; University of Northampton, January 22; Milton Keynes Gallery, March 28; Estela de Luz/The Center for Digital Art, Mexico City, May 2, 2013
Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque, April 5-7, 2013
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany April 24-28, 2013
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, October 16-20, 2013
Transmissions 2, Light Cube, New Delhi, November 14-18, 2013
Big Ears Film Festival, Knoxville, TN, March 23-26, 2017
Celluloid Now, Chicago New York, September 21-24, 2023
Genesee
3 minutes, 16mm, color, silent, 2011
Shot in the Genesee Valley of New York state last fall on regular 8mm to commemorate the last rolls of Kodachrome. The colours of the leaves and the film stock are augmented by orange colour filters, boosting the contrast and highlighting the rich saturated yellows, reds and orange of stock and season.
Distribution:
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Light Cone
Selected Screenings:
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, May 4-6, 2012
Parkdale Film + Video Showcase, Toronto, June 21-24, 2012
Light Cone Preview Show, Paris, September 13, 2012
“Paysages”, Scratch Projection, Paris, January 15, 2013
“Les Temps Suspendus”, Mire, Nantes, France, June 21, 2013
349 (for Sol LeWitt)
1 minute, HD Video, color, silent, 2011
“A digitally animated version of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #349, which was commissioned by Toronto’s Mercer Union gallery in 1981. Recreating LeWitt’s geometric vocabulary and primary colour palette, 349 careens through emblazoned emblems, lifted from walls and transported into dialogue with LeWitt’s exploration of spatial systems and human emotion.” – Andréa Picard, Toronto International Film Festival
Reviews:
Michael Sicinski
Distribution:
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Selected Screenings:
Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, September 8-18, 2011
“Space is the Place: Recent Avant-Garde Shorts”, Pacific Film Archives, November 16, 2011
Berlinale, February 9-18, 2012
“Écrans de veille”, Antitube, Québec City, February 17-18, 2012
Ann Arbor Film Festival, March 27-April 1, 2012
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, May 4-6, 2012
Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, June 21-23, 2012
DINCA Vision Quest 2012, Chicago, August 16-18, 2012
“Wavelengths: in the Blink of an Eye”, curated by Andréa Picard, Conversations on the Edge, Chicago, March 21, 2013
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, August 14, 16 & 17, 2014
“A Survey of Recent Contemporary Moving Images, Part One: Video Art & Computer Art,” curated by Andrew Rosinski, Comfort Station, Chicago, June 26, 2015
July 3rd, 2011
From July 1-August 18, Simultaneous Contrast is installed at the Niche in the Fine Arts Library, a project curated by Lydia Moyer at the University of Virginia.
Tomonari Nishikawa will be curating the next Early Monthly Segments screening on July 18. He will be presenting a program of recent Japanese 16mm films.
I will be participating in the Chain Letter show, curated by Christian Cummings & Doug Harvey at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles. My piece will make an appearance during the opening on July 23.
June 1st, 2011
Dutch super 8 filmmaker Jaap Pieters is in Toronto this week for his screening at Early Monthly Segments on June 6 in Toronto.
Tamalpais screens June 3 at The Chicago Underground Film Festival.
lay claim to an island will screen at The Rencontres Internationales Festival in Berlin on July 1.
Colonnade
4 minutes, 16mm, colour, silent, 2011
A filmic portrait of the Lambeth Colonnades at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA.
Distribution:
Light Cone
Arts policy reports
Reports for the National Alliance for Media Art + Culture:
“Preserve and Protect.” Media Arts Information Network Newsletter Summer 2002: 1, 4-11.
“Distributing Independent Media: A Report from NAMAC’s online Salon.” Media Arts Information Network Newsletter Summer 2001: 5-10.
April 23rd, 2011
I’m finishing up the semester as a Visiting Lecturer in Studio Art at the University of Virginia.
Tamalpais screens at this year’s Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (May 6-8).
lay claim to an island will screen at The Rencontres Internationales Festival in Madrid on May 26.
The next Early Monthly Segments screening will be on May 16 in Toronto.
I will also be attending the Oberhausen Film Festival and Media City Film Festival this May.
Independent Curation
“Schmelzdahin: City on Fire”, the 8 fest, Toronto ON, January 24, 2020 (PDF)
“When We Were Very Young”, curated with Scott Berry, Available Light, Ottawa, February 19, 2011 + Reel Out Queer Film & Video Festival, Kingston & Pleasure Dome, Toronto January 28 & 29, 2006 (PDF)
“Strategies of the Medium IV: In 27 Seconds”, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, November 21, 2009 (PDF)
“Strategies of the Medium III: In the Dark – Alex MacKenzie”, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, October 10, 2009 (PDF)
“Super 8 Late Returns”, Images Festival, April 9, 2009 (PDF).
“Close at Hand”, San Francisco Cinematheque, curated with Vanessa O’Neill, March 2, 2008 (PDF)
“From Two Places,” Mobile Media 2 Ontario-wide tour, March-April 2006 (PDF)
“New Canadian Video”, curated with Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Cairo Art Index, Cairo, Egypt, March 9, & 23, 2002 (PDF)
“Francisco Ruiz de Infante”, Vtape Curatorial Incubator, November 20, 2002 (PDF)
“Blowing the Trumpets to the Tulips”, 10 nights of Experimental Screenings to accompany Public Access Experimental Media Conference, Queen’s University, October 9-25, 2001 (PDF)
Early Monthly Segments, Toronto
2009-present
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- Vanessa O’Neill
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- Robert Beavers
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- Ellie Epp
Founded in 2009 by Scott Berry, Chris Kennedy, and Kate MacKay, Early Monthly Segments is a monthly film series in Toronto named after an early film by Robert Beavers, and is inspired by the immediacy, vibrancy and experimentation found in that film.
Guests have included Allison Cameron, Brent Coughenour, Ellie Epp, Helga Fanderl, Nicky Hamlyn, Takahiko Iimura, Lorne Marin, Sandra Meigs, Suzanne Naughton, Jaap Pieters, Daichi Saito, Robert Todd and Naomi Uman. Guest curators have included Jon Davies, John Gartenberg, Eli Horwatt, Derek Jenkins, Christine Lucy Latimer + Mark Loeser, Tomonari Nishikawa, Ruth Noack and Michael Zryd.
Programs have included films by Ute Aurand, Robert Banks, Robert Beavers, Lawrence Brose, Mary Ellen Bute, Keewatin Dewdney, Nathaniel Dorsky, Kevin James Everson Hollis Frampton, Brian Frye, Robert Gardner, Peter Gidal, Nicky Hamlyn, Barbara Hammer, Marjorie Keller, Kurt Kren, Owen Land, Babette Mangolte, Marie Menken, Rebecca Meyers, Vanessa O’Neill, Sidney Peterson, Chick Strand, Warren Sonbert, Kidlat Tahimik, Peter Watkins.
Experimental Media Congress, Toronto
April 7-11, 2010
Conference Coordinator
The first Congress since the storied 1989 Toronto Experimental Film Congress, this gathering promoted ongoing international conversations and provided platforms for creative discussions about the burning issues related to experimental media production, exhibition, dissemination, criticism, pedagogy and reception.
Download schedule here.
Presenters included Ayisha Abraham, Steve Anker, Konrad Becker, Ursula Biemann, Wafaa Bilal, Pip Chodorov, Alfredo Cramerotti, Barry Doupé, Christopher Eamon, Kevin Jerome Everson, Vera Frenkel, Jean Gagnon, Peggy Gale, Benj Gerdes, Nicole Gingras, John Greyson, Tamar Guimarães, Barbara Hammer, Ed Halter, Nicky Hamlyn, Birgit Hein, Shai Heredia, Kathy High, Cheryl L’ Hirondelle, James Holcombe, Henriette Huldisch, Simone Jones, Jorge La Ferla, Hangjun Lee, Ross Lipman, Steven Loft, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Ou Ning, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Juan Ortiz-apuy, Susan Oxtoby, Donghyun Park, Andréa Picard, Yvonne Rainer, Dont Rhine, Peter Ride, David Rokeby, Daïchi Saïto, Paige Sarlin, Tom Sherman, Pelle Snickars , Michael Snow, Hito Steyerl, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, David Teh, Bart Testa, Kaitlin Till-Landry, Dot Tuer, Ainsley Walton and Sobhi al-Zobaidi.
the 8 fest, Toronto
2009-2011
Administrative Coordinator and member of the Programming committee.
The 8 fest is an unique festival that presents all forms of small-gauge film: 8mm, Super 8 and 9.5mm, as well as works in installation, loops, and ‘proto-cinema devices’ like zoetropes. All work is presented on its original film format.
Guests included Dave Anderson, Maya Asaba, Paul Clipson, Mario Doucette, Sacha Fink, Takahiko Iimura, GB Jones, Tomonari Nishikawa, John Porter, Jonathan Sajda, Giovanni Sampogna, Julie Saragosa, Melanie Wilmink and Satoshi Yajimachi.
Catalogues:
The SFAI Film Salon, San Francisco
2006-2008
Founded in 2006 by Chris Kennedy and Vanessa O’Neill, the SFAI Film Salon was a weekly 16mm film series held at the San Francisco Art Institute and open to the public.
Guests included Paul Clipson (with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Gregg Kowalsky), Nathaniel Dorsky, Nicky Hamlyn, George Kuchar (on the films of Curt McDowell) and Jeanne Liotta.
Programs included films by Peggy Ahwesh, Thom Anderson, Kenneth Anger, Bruce Baillie, Daniel Barnett, Scott Bartlett, Jordan Belson, James Benning, Sadie Benning, Wallace Berman, Louise Bourque, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, David Brooks, Pip Chodorov, Jean Cocteau, Bruce Conner, Larry Cuba, Sandra Davis, Storm De Hirsch, Frederique Devaux, Robert Fenz, Hollis Frampton, Ernie Gehr, Henry Hills, Philip Hoffman, Nancy Holt, Peter Hutton, Shiho Kano, Wolf Koenig, Kurt Kren, Roman Kroiter, Standish Lawder, Saul Levine, Lin+Lam, Rose Lowder, Christopher Maclaine, Anthony McCall, Jonas Mekas, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Guvnor Nelson, Tomonari Nishikawa, Kenji Onishi, Charlotte Pryce, Hans Richter, Michael Robinson, Steve Roden, Peter Rose, Carolee Schneeman, Richard Serra, Guy Sherwin, Hsiao Shuo-wen, Joel Singer, Robert Smithson, Greta Snider, Phil Solomon, Curt Thomas, Leslie Thornton, Peter Tscherkassky, Willie Varela, John Whitney and Jud Yalkut.
Programmer, The Images Festival, Toronto
2003-2006
Highlights include: Canadian spotlights on Vincent Grenier, Robert Lee and Leslie Peters; Experimental Cinema from India; Harun Farocki artist spotlight; Super-8 Late; Some Cats From Japan live performance; mpld; Aki Onda & Nathaniel Dorsky; St. Dirt Elementary School; Shalabi Effect & The Hour of the Furnaces; Renzo Marten’s Episode 1; Hassan Khan’s Hidden Location; Daniel Barrow & People Like Us; Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space; and Hop-Fu!
Additional programs:
“Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other: Images from Canada”, curated with Scott Berry & Jeremy Rigsby, Anthology Film Archives, September 2006 to April 2007
“Images Festival Presents: Surface Tensions” Kassel Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, November 11, 2006
“A Little Planet”, Indie Unlimited, Harbourfront Centre, August 27, 2006
“9,970, 670 km2: a selection from the Images Festival”, Artcinema OFF OFF, Gent, Belgium, November 15, 2004
Pleasure Dome Programming Collective, Toronto
2000-2006
curated:
“Silently, Bearing Totem of a Bird: The Cine Sonnets of Storm de Hirsch”, w/Scott Berry, Splice This! July 3, 2005
“Dream Sphinx: Films by Roger Jacoby”, w/ Scott Berry, Reel Out & Pleasure Dome March 14/15, 2004
“Bringing the War Home,” Pleasure Dome, March 15, 2003
“Home Made Movies 2: The Cherry Street Collection,” with Jonathan Pollard, Pleasure Dome, June 21, 2003
“The Perfect Queer Appositeness of Jack Smith“, Pleasure Dome, July 18 & 19, 2003
“Mysterious Object at Noon by Apichatpong Weerasethakul“, Pleasure Dome, December 1, 2002
“Smoke ’em if You Got ’em: Exercises in Shadow Play“, Pleasure Dome, December 6, 2002
“Burning Star by Onishi Kenji“, Pleasure Dome, December 7, 2001
“Stop the WorldTM I Want to Get Off: Culture Jamming in the Global Age”, Pleasure Dome, November 3 & 4, 2000 (PDF)
Tamalpais
14 minutes, 16mm, color, 2009
Shot on Mount Tamalpais, a spatial matrix replaces temporal causality with contiguous space. A view of landscape is taken apart, to be reconstituted through memory. The grid, a reference to the “veil of threads” invented by Albrecht Dürer as an aid for perspective drawing – to transfer vision to a sheet of paper – is used for an opposite effect – to disperse a landscape across time. The viewer is asked to remember the space as it passes and reconstitute it from memory, actively connecting the image across space and time.
Preview:
Light Cone
Reviews:
Michael Sicinski
Darren Hughes
Distribution:
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Light Cone
Selected Screenings:
Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, September 10-19, 2009
WNDX Festival, Winnipeg MB, September 30 to October 3, 2010
13th Antimatter Film Festival October 8 to 16, 2010 Victoria, BC
“Keeping Trace – On Time And Film”, curated by Marlene Rigler, Art Cinema OFFOff, Gent, Belgium, November 8, 2010; TIFF Cinematheque, Toronto, February 23, 2011; CinemaSpace, Montreal, March 26, 2011
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, May 6-8, 2011
“Landscapes on Film”, curated by Aolfe Desmond, Experimental Film Club, Irish Film Institute, Dublin, Ireland, May 19, 2011
Chicago Underground Film Festival, June 2-9, 2011
Fila K Cineclube, Coimbra, Portugal, September 10, 2011
Alchemy Film and Media Festival, Hawick, Scottish Borders, October 26-28, 2012
“Northern Light – Lumière du Nord”, curated by Benjamin R. Taylor, Visions Montreal, September 1, 2016
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Experimental Tuesdays, Tamalpais, September 27, 2022
Screening LAV #13, Cine Studio de CBA, December 17, 2022
lay claim to an island
13 minutes, 16mm on video, color, sound, 2009
Texts from the 1969 American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and letters from supporters propel an exploration of political yearning, emancipatory architecture and failed utopias. What does it mean to claim land that has more value as a symbol than as a potential home? And how does that symbol function beyond the boundaries of its geographic limits?
Also available with Spanish of French subtitles.
Preview (Full):
Light Cone
Distribution:
CFMDC
Light Cone
V tape
Prizes:
Second Prize, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, 2010
Selected Screenings:
37th Ann Arbor Film Festival, March 24-29, 2009
2009 Sydney Underground Film Festival, September 10-13, 2009, Australia
WNDX Festival, Winnipeg MB, October 8 to 11, 2009
12th Antimatter Film Festival, October 9 to 17, 2009 Victoria, BC
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, October 27-Nov 1, 2009 Czech Republic
19th Madrid Experimental Cinema Week, November 20-27, 2009
Other Cinema, November 21, 2009
Experiments in Cinema V5.1, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 10-15, 2010
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany April 21-25, 2010
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH, April 23 – 29, 2010
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, April 30-May 2, 2010
Chicago Underground Film Festival, June 24-July 1 , 2010
3rd Experimental Cinema Exposition “Rompan Límites”, Uruguay October 1-3, 2010
Le Festival du nouveau cinema, Montreal, October 13-24, 2010
Cine-X, Olympia Film Festival, November 12-20, 2010
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, at the Centre Pompidou, November 26-December 4, 2010; at the Reina Sofia, May 23-29, 2011; and at the Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, June 28 to July 3, 2011
6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, January 28-February 5, 2012
Strange Beauty Film Festival, Durham, NC, February 16-18, 2012
Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL, February 21-26, 2012
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival 6 Domestic Touring Programme
BEFF6 Tour, Walailak University, Nakhon Si Thammarat , South Thailand, September 21-22, 2012
BEFF6 Tour, MahaSarakham University, MahaSarakham, Northeastern Thailand, December 25, 2012
BEFF6 Tour, Future Perfect Gallery, Singapore, July 12-14 2013
Arkipel International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia, August 24-30, 2013
Havana Film Festival, Cuba, December 8-17, 2016
“Alcatraz revisited“, curated by Martin Grennberger, Nomadica – Weekend On the Moon, Bologna, Italy, November 2, 2019
“Beyond Recognition: Indigenous Activism“, curated by Margherita Ghetti, Sarah Whitt and Hertha D. Sweet Wong Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, November 14, 2019
In the collections of the Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles and the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley.
Gladstone
2 minutes, 16mm, color, silent, 2009
A portrait of a street corner in flux.
Distribution:
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Selected Screenings:
12th Parkdale Film + Video Showcase, Toronto, June 26, 2010
EX-iS 2010, Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul, September 1-7, 2010
New Toronto Works, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, March 19, 2011
“Nouvelles images de la rue”, Daïmôn, Gatineau, Québec, November 28, 2012
Simultaneous Contrast
5.5 minutes, 16mm, color, silent, 2008
The striped pattern of the municipal bus shelters in San Francisco becomes a fixed foreground behind which the city passes. Spatial oscillations provide a constantly permutating play of figure, ground and space, imaging the possibility of being two places at once.
Preview:
Light Cone
Distribution:
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Light Cone
Prizes:
The Doubling of Space Award, Jury Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2010
Selected Screenings:
European Media Arts Festival, April 22-26, 2009
63rd Edinburgh International Film Festival, June 17 – 28, 2009
Chicago Underground Film Festival, September 10-13, 2009
Cine-X, Olympia Film Festival, November 7-16, 2009
Stem Cell: Subterranean Edmonton Media Arts Festival, February 11-14, 2010
The 18th $100 Film Festival, Calgary, Alberta, March 4-6, 2010
48th Ann Arbor Film Festival, March 23-28, 2010
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, April 30-May 2, 2010
Media City 2010, Windsor, ON, May 25-29, 2010
“the space between two impossible landscapes”, curated by Images Festival, Goethehaus, Jakarta, Indonesia, September 21, 2010
“In Front of Our Eyes”, curated by Adam Paradis, Video Underground, Jamaica Plain, MA Sept 30, 2010
“Images Festival Spotlight”, EX!T, Experimental Media Art Festival in Taiwan, November 27, 2010
The Niche at the Fine Arts Library, curated by Lydia Moyer, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, July 1-August 18, 2011
8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, February 13, 2012
“L’Autre urbain, la métropole post-moderne”, Mire, Nantes, France, June 6, 2012
“Tales from the Northern Underground”, curated by Clint Enns, Experimental Response Cinema, Austin, June 16, 2014
Havana Film Festival, Cuba, December 8-17, 2016
lombard
1 minute, 16mm, b&w, silent, 2007
A quick defamiliarization of a familiar San Francisco landmark.
Distribution:
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Selected Screenings:
11th Annual Parkdale Film & Video Showcase, June 26-28, 2009
the acrobat
6 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound, 2007
Inspired in part by a poem by Toronto poet Ryan Kamstra, the acrobat is a consideration of the relationship of gravity and politics – the beauty and necessity of rising up, but also, perhaps, the significance of allowing oneself to fall. If the force of gravity is in relation to both mass and proximity, how does the force of politics resonate across space and time?
Preview:
Light Cone
Reviews:
Michael Sicinski
Distribution:
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Light Cone
Prizes:
Innovative Narrative Award, Sydney Underground Film Festival 2008
Selected Screenings:
Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, September 6-15, 2007
GROUNDED? 7th Annual Juried Film/Video Screening, Southern Exposure, San Francisco,
December 9, 2007
Optical Allusions, curated by Cheyanne Turions (Cineworks), Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver,
BC, January 22, 2008
36th Ann Arbor Film Festival, March 25-30. 2008
European Media Arts Festival, April 23-27, 2008
“Riffing The Light Fantastic”, curated by Alex MacKenzie, OK! Quoi? Contemporary Arts Festival,
Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB, July 31, 2008
poesiefestival berlin 2009, July 1, 2009
VII International Kansk Video Festival, Kansk, Russia, September 1-7, 2008
EX-iS 2008, Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul, September 4-10, 2008
2008 Sydney Underground Film Festival, September 11-14, 2008, Australia
11th Antimatter Underground Film Festival September 19-27, 2008 Victoria, BC
Views from the Avant-Garde, 46th New York Film Festival, October 4-5, 2008
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, October 9-12, 2008 Berlin, Germany
International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava, October 24-29, 2008, Czech Republic
Chicago Underground Film Festival, October 29-November 2, 2008
The 17th $100 Film Festival, Calgary, Alberta, March 6-7, 2009
Experiments in Cinema V4.2, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 16-19, 2009
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, May 9-May 10, 2009
IFCO Summer Gala, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August 8, 2009
4th Annual ATA Film & Video Festival, San Francisco, October 21-23, 2009
Festival of (In)Appropriation, Los Angeles Film Forum, December 13, 2009
6th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Galery Meinblau, February 19, 2010
“De Luce”, curated by Rick Bahto, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA May 6th, 2010 and Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA, May 13th, 2010
Re:Play, curated by Sarah Wylie Ammerman VanMeter, Lexington Art League, Lexington, Kentucky, September 23-October 16, 2011
“Brûlure des films”, Braquage, Paris, France, May 28, 2013
“De la Danse / Du Politique”, Braquage, Paris, France, March 11, 2016
Havana Film Festival, Cuba, December 8-17, 2016
“Qu’est-ce Qu’un Geste Politique Au Cinéma”, Braquage, Paris, France, November 16, 2019
Carte Blanche à Braquage (Plein Jour), Paris, France, August 1, 2021
Tape Film
5 minutes, 16mm, color, silent, 2007
Made as an experiment in hand-processing, the film cycles through five different film stocks and a variety of processing methods. The result created dimensional havoc in the images. The concept of inside and outside is troubled, and the act of enclosure creates a screen on which to project the filmmaker’s own image.
Preview:
Light Cone
Reviews:
Fred Camper
Bibliography:
Hamlyn, Nicky, “Medium Practices”, Public # 44: Experimental Media, edited by Peggy Gale, 2012.
Distribution:
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Light Cone
DVD purchase:
Compiled on Aurora Edition 2: New artists’ work in the moving image DVD, Aurora Festival, 2008
Available through the BFI
Selected Screenings:
notthatbalai art festival 2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 20-August 5, 2007
Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, September 6-15, 2007
5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, 25-30 March, 2008
11th Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, BC, September 19-27, 2008
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Oct 15th-19th 2008
14th Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC, November 12-15, 2008
AURORA 2008, Norwich, UK, November 12-16, 2008
AURORA Tour 09, Cardiff, UK, March 5, 2009; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, March 18, 2009; Norwich, UK, July 18, 2009; Glasgow, UK, July 28-August 1, 2009; Belfast, UK, September 9, 2009; Bristol, UK, November 20, 2009
The 17th $100 Film Festival, Calgary, Alberta, March 6-7, 2009
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, May 9-May 10, 2009
Onion City Experimental Film Festival, June 18-21, 2009
Scratch Expanded, Light Cone, Paris, September 19, 2009
“Wallpaper”, Lexington Film League, The Miller House, Lexington, Kentucky, October 3, 2009
“The Medium is the Message”, Curated by Cameron Starr, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, ON, Dec 4, 2009
“The Cumulus”, Curated by Lee Ellickson and Jaap Pieters, Pixel Palace, Amsterdam, December 15, 2013
“Le Film de Soi”, MuMaBox, Musée d’Art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, France, February 12, 2020
Memo to Pic Desk
by Chris Kennedy and Anna van der Meulen
6.5 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound, 2006
An idiosyncratic look at staging in news photography, using materials from the archives of a Toronto daily. Moral codes, delinquency and autonomy are pulled into an altered coherence, as vintage photos are examined next to their type-written paper trail. Financial assistance provided by the Ontario Arts Council.
Preview:
Light Cone
Distribution:
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Light Cone
Prizes:
First Prize, 26th Black Maria Film & Video Festival), New Jersey, February 2, 2007
Best Experimental Short Film, Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Oct 10th-14th 2007
Selected Screenings:
Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, September 7-16, 2006
25th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, 23-29 October 2006
5th Starting from Scratch Festival, Amsterdam, February 16-18, 2007
29th Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, Illinois, February 23-May 4, 2007
35th Ann Arbor Film Festival, March 20-25. 2007
50th San Francisco International Film Festival, April 26 –May 10, 2007
2007 Sydney Underground Film Festival, September 7-10, 2007, Austrailia
11th MadCat Women’s International Film Festival, San Francisco, September 11-26, ,2007
10th Antimatter Underground Film Festival September 21-29, 2007 Victoria, BC
17th Madrid Experimental Cinema Week, November 16-23, 2007
Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS, February 7-10, 2008
The 16th $100 Film Festival, Calgary, Alberta, March 13-15, 2008
New Toronto Works, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, March 15, 2008
5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, 25-30 March, 2008
2008 Iowa City International Documentary Festival, April 3-5, 2008
“Essay on Camerawork”, San Francisco Cinematheque, April 20, 2008
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, May 1-3, 2008
Stem Cell: Subterranean Edmonton Media Arts Festival, February 11-14, 2010
Strange Beauty Film Festival, Durham, NC, January 24-26, 2013
Jane’s Window
10.5 minutes, 35mm, color, silent, 2005
My grandmother cherished her large dining room window for the opening it afforded her onto the world. From this perspective she would espy the arrival of friends and family, contemplate the change of seasons and reflect on time past. On the shelves of this window she collected mementos of a childhood in China, life as an artist, and the travels in between. Combining images of my own travels through Japan and China with images of the home my grandparents built, Jane’s Window reflects on the passing down of memory, curiosity and creativity across generations. Financial assistance provided by the Toronto Arts Council.
Distribution:
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Selected Screenings:
The Cinematic Window, “The Independents”, Cinematheque Ontario, October 18, 2005
“Extrapolations of the Real: Fringe Film at the Drive-In”, curated by Phil Hoffman, The Fifth Annual Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Hanover/Durham, August 24, 2006
The 9th Annual Antimatter Festival of Underground & Short Film, Victoria BC, September 2006
The International Cinema Exposition, Denver, CO, October 11-15, 2006
Images Festival, Toronto, April 6-14, 2007
“Large Scale”, Experimental Response Cinema, Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, June 1, 2013
4 x 8 x 3
3 minutes, 16mm, color, sound, 2004
8mm unsplit. Streetcars circle. The ferry leaves and returns in one gesture. Camera and character dance. Supported by 2003 Filmmakers Support Program LIFT.
Preview:
Light Cone
Distribution:
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Light Cone
DVD purchase:
Compiled on Super Super 8: Experimental Works for Educational Environment DVD, 2005 (available through CFMDC).
Selected Screenings:
the $99 Film Festival, LIFT, June 17, 2003
Recent Work Roundup, “The Independents”, Cinematheque Ontario, January 15, 2004
The Best of the $99 No-Excuses Film Festival, Ed Video Guelph, February 20, 2004
The 6th Annual Zeitgeist International Film Festival, San Francisco, June 14, 2004
The 7th Annual Antimatter Festival of Underground & Short Film, Victoria BC, September 24, 2004
Calgary $100 Film Festival, Calgary, Alberta, March 10-12, 2005
Avanto Festival 2005, Helsinki, Finland, November 18-20, 2005
CineCity Festival 2005, Brighton, UK, November 17-December 4, 2005
VIPER International Competition 2005, Basel, Switzerland, March 16-20, 2006
“Süper 8: Pequeño Gran Formato” Xcèntric, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, January 8-11, 2009
“Urbanity”, Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, September 11, 2009
“Strategies of the Medium 5: Pieces of Eight”, LIFT, Toronto, April 30, 2010
Festival de Cine de Lima, August 18-16, 2014
“8 Super 8. De Lo Doméstico a lo Infinito”, Cineteca Madrid, April 26, 2019
“21st Dresdner Schmalfilmtage”, Dresden Germany, October 15-18, 2020