An experiment in found-footage and archival processes. Subkonscio Rapida was originally shot in 1988 and then... forgotten. Forty years later, the 16mm film has been rediscovered and recut. Completed by the same artist at two very different points in his life, Subkonscio Rapida is a meditation on memory, time, and rediscovery.

This experimental ambient film frames the city of Vancouver to become a source of graphical shapes. A symphony of images grouped in sections based on themes.

What starts out as a short nature documentary inspired by the mating sounds of male wood frogs in a southern Ontario forest, slowly reveals itself to touch on the fragility of life, the cycle of the seasons, the wonder of the natural world, and, in an echo of the Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus’ maxim that you… ⊕

 A young woman (my sixteen-year-old daughter, Emma) dances on a subway platform to music only she can hear. As we watch her move through this public space with unselfconscious expression, we hear her thoughts on the vulnerability of dancing in front of others, the poetry of interacting with strangers, and the wonder of… ⊕

In this non-narrative short film, shot on 16mm and voiced entirely in questions from a young girl, the filmmaker weds footage of her daughters playing in an abandoned quarry with the inexhaustible curiosity of a child. The youngest daughter’s questions address a vast range of knowledge, moving, as she and her sister… ⊕