FACING THE WAVES (2016)
Super 8mm to 16mm, 4:30 min, silent, 2016
A study of light and shadows on a late summer afternoon.
Commissioned by the 8Fest Toronto.
SCREENINGS
2016 The 8Fest Toronto January 29-30th, 2016, Toronto, ON
2016 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Dinamo P&I Screening, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BY THE TIME WE GOT TO EXPO (2015)
A collaboration with Philip Hoffman, 16mm, Super 8, HD, 2015
A meditative journey through Expo 67. The film re-visits a significant moment in Canadian history using manipulated imagery taken from educational and documentary films. Footage has been re-worked using tints, toners and photochemical techniques to create a vibrant collision of colours, textures and forms.
SCREENINGS
2016 DocPoint, Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland
2015 Café Ex - The Films of Philip Hoffman, Ottawa, ON
2015 Echo Park Film Centre, Northern Light: New Experimental Works, LA, CA
2015 Fanshawe College, Films of Eva Kolcze and Philip Hoffman, London, ON
2015 Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC
2015 Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival,Czech Republic
2015 Festival Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, QC
2015 Pleasuredome New Toronto Works, Toronto, ON
2015 The Film Farm Lux 20th Anniversary Show, Lux, London UK
2015 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB
DUST CYCLES (IN PROGRESS)
Dust Cycles is a 3 part film series dealing with decay and entropy within the Canadian landscape. Shot on location at the Toronto Islands, Scarborough Bluffs and Alberta Badlands.
ALL THAT IS SOLID (2014)
ALL THAT IS SOLID, 16 min, 2014
All That Is Solid investigates Brutalist architecture through the surface of black and white celluloid. The film features three prominent examples of Brutalist architecture, Robarts Library, U of T Scarborough campus and York University campus. Footage of the buildings has been degraded using a number of chemical and physical processes. The film explores the utopian visions that inspired the Brutalist movement and the material and aesthetic connection between concrete and celluloid.
SCREENINGS
2016 Copenhagen Architecture Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 Filmmakers Co-op, New Year New Works, New York, NY
2015 Winnipeg Design Festival, Winnipeg, MB
2015 Analogica Film Festival, Bolzano, Italy
2015 EXIS Experimental Film and Video Festival,EX-Now, Seoul, Korea
2015 New Monuments Forget The Future, Birch Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2015 Arkipel Intl. Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jarkarta, Indonesia
2015 EMMEDIA, Fresh Short Shorts program, Calgary, AB
2015 VideoEx, Architecture Light and Space program, Zurich, Switzerland
2015 Vivo Media Arts Centre, Urban Decay Program, Vancouver BC
2015 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB
2015 Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, QC
2015 Int'l Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
2015 Iowa City International Documentary Festival, Iowa City, IA
2015 Images Festival, Toronto, ON
2015 Int'l Film Festival Rotterdam, Dinamo P&I Screening, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BADLANDS (2014)
Badlands, 4 min, 16mm, super 8, HD, 2013
The Cheltenham Badlands are exposed geological formations that once lay beneath an ancient lake. The barren, rolling landscape was sculpted by the water that flowed over it. Shot in HD and super 8, the film also features celluloid that has been decayed in soil and water.
SCREENINGS:
2015 Echo Park Film Centre, Lorenzo Gattorna & Close Company, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Art Cinema OFFoff, Young Vagrants, Ghent, Belgium
2014 Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Haverhill, MA
2014 Montreal Experimental Film Festival, Montreal, QC
2014 The 8fest, Toronto, ON
2014 Open City Cinema, Winnipeg, MB
MODERN ISLAND (2012)
Modern Island, 5 min. 16mm, 2012
A hand processed film exploring the decaying modernist structures of a popular amusement park on the Toronto Islands.
SCREENINGS:
2015 Canadian Film Day, Why We Love Canadian Film,York University, Toronto, ON
2014 Antimatter Film Festival Tour, Cholula and Oaxaca, Mexico
2014 Rogers Cable 10, XS Network, Toronto, ON
2014 Images Festival, Toronto, ON
2014 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2013 Transient Visions: Festivals of the Moving Image, Johnson City, NY
2013 Anthology Film Archives, Experimental Documentaries, New York, NY
2013 Under New Management - Video Rental Store, ODD Gallery, Dawson, Yukon
2012 Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria BC
2012 Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal QC
MARKINGS 1-3 (2011)
Markings 1-3, 7 min. 16mm, 2011
A tactile journey in three parts. Markings 1-3 is an attempt to connect with nature through the surface of celluloid, using such techniques as tinting, toning, painting and scratching.
This film was shot and hand processed at the Independent Imaging Retreat (The Film Farm) in Mount Forest Ontario.
SCREENINGS:
2015 Proceso de Error - Festival Internacional de Video Experimental,Valparaíso, Chile
2014 Northwest Film Forum, Collaboration with Nature program, Seattle, Washington
2014 Echo Park Film Centre, Collaboration with Nature program, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Pleasure Dome, Film Farm: A Pact with Process, Toronto, ON
2014 Festival De Lima, Otras Miradas program, Lima, Peru
2014 Synethsesia III - Film and Music, Toronto, ON
2014 Experimental Film Fest Portland, Portland, OR
2014 Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, Scotland
2014 Exploded View Gallery, Tuscon, AZ
2013 Nuit Blanche, CFMDC 'Merging Solitudes', CFMDC.TV
2013 Rare Earth, FPS Screening, Plug Projects
2013 Cinesthesia Feminist Film Festival, Carbondale, IL
2013 Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
2012 Gaze #3, Artist Television Access, Material Worlds, San Francisco, CA
775 KING ST. WEST (2010)
775 King St. West, 5 min (loop), 2010
775 KING ST. WEST is a single channel video installation which traces the absence and explores the history of a demolished building at 775 King St. West in Toronto. The site was home to many businesses over its 110 year history, including factories, offices and for the past 30 years Paul Wolf Electric and Lighting Supply.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Urban Research on Film, Director's Lounge, Berlin 2012
Topographies at Union Gallery, 2011
XPACE Cultural Centre, September, 2010
