DOODLEMAN IN "THE JOURNEY"

Amy Lockhart (Ottawa/Chicago) video 2 mins 2008
Custom made for OK,Quoi?!, this series of deceptively simple looping tidbits are playful studies of flat drawings dimensionalized, and the fleeting nature of the sketch and doodle. A line drawing of a man going on a little journey: he walks, picks something up, throws it, walks some more, picks something up and eats it. The end.

SCRATCH AND CROW

Helen Hill (1970-2007) 16mm 4:23 mins 1995
If I knew, / I would assure you we are all / Finally good chickens / And will rise together, / A noisy flock of round, / dusty angels. (from the film)
A poetic work in the best sense of the word, moving fluidly between playful abstraction and literal daydream notions, animated and written by the sadly departed Helen Hill. "This hand drawn animated film reveals the secret life cycle of chickens, from their hatching by mother cats to their noisy ascent into Heaven." -Helen Hill

ASSEMBLED

Becka Barker (Halifax/Seoul) 16mm 6 mins 2006
A hand-etched and collaged film where three figures navigate the modern social spaces of being “together alone." "...A slice of that surreal, dreamlike space that exists for late-night bloggers, solitary artists, lovers, and wanderers. Expressed through cameraless animation techniques (etching-on-film and collage), three figures guide us through a not-so-average trip to the movies. Voices confess personal minutiae to whoever is willing to listen, all propelled by an original and hypnotic score (written and performed by Stephen Kelly). Comfort is ultimately sought in mass solitude, and in the unspoken connection of bearing witness to a spectacle." (Continental Drift)

THE DISTANCE BETWEEN HERE AND THERE

Christina Battle (Toronto) 16mm 8 mins 2005
By applying coloured tape onto raw emulsion and then exposing it to light, a rapid-fire and sometime frozen landscape of light appears, cameraless and raw. "A visceral, physical cinema making the eyeballs sweat. Hidden colour codes of the synapses firing: a new thought is being born, and a new movie to accompany it.” - Mike Hoolboom

ELEMENTS OF LIGHT

Richard Reeves (Calgary) 35mm scope 4:30 mins 2004
An immersive and playful study of light, space and time. Elements of Light is inspired by the elements of nature - air / water / earth / fire and metal, within the context of light. The film takes place in four parts and uses four different types of film stock. Images were designed for cinemascope wide screen and drawn directly onto film. "A sublime work of cinematic dexterity.” - Philip Hoffman

OCEAN'S MEMORY

David Crompton & Andrew Herfst (Vancouver) video 5:30 mins 2005
In meteorology, Ocean's Memory is a phenomenon describing the ocean's capacity to retain currents and temperatures over time and distance. So it is with the human memory. The striking images of children attempting flight in a windstorm is married to a mezmerizing audio soundscape. Excerpted from "fieldbook".

THE ACROBAT

Chris Kennedy (Toronto/San Francisco) 16mm 6 mins 2007
A richly rendered mix of grain and contrast in black and white, and a concise rumination on the relationship of gravity and politics; the beauty and necessity of rising up, but also the significance of allowing oneself to fall. Architectural shapes, vertiginous states and towering cranes force an imbalance that imposes a kind of faltering.

HOT FOOTS AND HAT TRIX

Rick Raxlen (Victoria) 16mm 5 mins 2007
Roy and Dale plus a whole lotta scratch 'n' "frottage", and a homemade track on a two-string banjo that Rick made on top of it all. "My 2nd feature, a ‘commercial flop’ was an homage to the western-experimental road-movie genre, which wasn’t that big. It included Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and stock shots from The Irish Gringo. This scratch-on-film is me scratching an old itch and saying hello/goodbye to my feature-length midlife crisis in transcendent filmmaking. Goodbye Roy Rogers! Goodbye to the strange blues of Canuck cowboy films." - Rick Raxlen

PULSIONS

Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof (Toronto) 16mm 9:30 mins 2007
A colour saturated watery dance of handprocessed emulsion, Pulsions explores the fluidity of space and time through pulsing movement. An exploration of the double ellipse/figure “8” that is created through the movements of living bodies: humans, birds, insects; underwater and in the air.
Music by Colin Clark. Dance, choreography and performance by Lucie Mongrain.

Total Run Time ~ 55min