A brief study of the unusual history of one old film frame. Director's Note: While watching Stalingrad (1943), by Leonid Varlamov, I noticed this shot right away and it stayed in my memory until I got the idea for this video. This is the story of an anknown man caught in the endless circle of cinematic death, artistic ambitions… ⊕

Harold Sonny Ladoo was the first Trinidadian and the second Caribbean novelist published in Canada, yet he remains little known except among a group of devoted enthusiasts. No Pain Like This Body was released in 1972 by House of Anansi Press, edited by the press’s co-founder and Toronto’s first Poet Laureate, Dennis… ⊕

Both fable and ode to plants, The Everlasting Pea is a short film that explores our human relationship with the botanic world. Journeying through ancient ruins, mysterious dreamscapes, and ethereal otherworldly plant images, the story moves between a scientist who anaesthetizes a pea plant, questioning plant awareness and our… ⊕

Ideas about how we live in the world as humans, the difficulties faced, the conditions of our brief existence, accompany us consciously or unconsciously, overtly or subliminally as we go about our daily lives. The video quotes images from art and film and texts from various philosophies to conjure the fraught and beautiful… ⊕

A collage of personal and public accounts, The Image Remains the Same contemplates water as an allegory of journeys filled with desire, belonging, hope, and demise stretching from the shores of the Pacific Ocean in Los Angeles to the Mediterranean Sea in Lebanon, specifically the El-Mina port, where Ali El-Darsa speaks to… ⊕