Film & Video

A site-specific video projection running at The Toronto Zoo from June to September, 2004. This installation features video images projected alongside the actual pool windows. Both playful and surreal, the work is an exploration of movement, as well as the beauty and diversity that exists in the human/animal kingdom.

 

Animal Tracks is an exploration of North American culture's estranged and precarious relationships with animals. To examine these relationships, the camera travels through man-made environments that have been constructed for the containment and/or display of animals.

No voice-over narration is used in Animal Tracks. Instead, it employs a combination of sound effects, music and inter-title cards along with live action footage to engage the viewer.

Film Festival Screenings:

• Encontros Internacionais de Cinema. Lisbon, Portugal 1996.
• 20th Sao Paulo International Film Festival. Brazil 1996.
• 16th Atlantic Film Festival. Halifax NS 1996.
• 45 Melbourne International Film Festival. Australia 1996.
• Ambiente-Incontri Film Festival. Italy 1996.
• Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival. Toronto 1996.
• HOT DOCS! Documentary Film Festival. Toronto 1996.
• New Frontiers Film Festival. Ottawa 1996.

Broadcast in North America and Europe.
28 minutes, 16mm colour.
Beta SP, VHS and film prints available.

 

Excellent performances and a gritty realism highlight this multi-award winning film. A bleak rooming house is the setting for a story which challenges our assumptions about mental illness, innocence and family. A strange and lonely little man named Ed is left alone with the young daughter of his new neighbours. An uneasy tension hangs in Ed's room and in the viewers mind as the film clips along to its unexpected conclusion.

 

List of Awards & Screenings:

• Bronze Apple at the National Educational Film and Video Festival in Oakland, California. 1994.

• Best Overall Student Entry at the CAN PRO Competition. 1993.

• At TVOntario's 1992 Telefest Competition Hall Noises wins:
- Chairman's Award for Best Overall Production of a Film/Video.
- Best Direction / Best Script / Best Performance

• Best Overall Entry and Best Fiction Film at the Scarborough Film and Video Festival.

• Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival. Toronto 1994.

• Yorkton Film Festival screening. Yorkton, Alberta 1992.

 

ANONYMOUS is a half-hour fictional narrative which explores loneliness, sexuality and the power of the spirit through the inadvertent friendship of two men.

Gerry is a 60ish veteran of the streets who has been homeless for the past 20 years. He is partial to cheap alcohol and has a hearty disrespect for the majority of the human race. Gene is an overweight shoe salesman and weekend pornography pirate in his early 40's. He has had a difficult time rebounding from his failed marriage and is painfully alone in the world.

The two men end up sharing beer, conversation and the pirating of pornographic videos. It seems they had more in common then anyone would have guessed.

Screenings:

• International Festival of New Film and Video. Split Croatia, 1998.

• 27th International Film Festival of Figueira da Foz. Portugal, 1998.

• Victoria Film and Video Festival. Victoria BC, 1998.

• Hero Soup Film Festival. Edmonton Alberta, 1998.

28 minutes.
Digital Beta Black & White VHS available.