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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
2020, 07:00 minutes
tapecode 2163.01
Something from there is a short film on the substance of our original lands. How does connection to land change after uprooting and in diaspora? How does matter come to embody our memories and defy official histories? These are some of the open-ended questions asked in this reflection on the complicated implications of wanting… ⊕
Night. The moon is a rock. The ears are stopped. A chair balances on the roof of a house. A silver box composes itself: a mysterious instrument. A marble rolls around in somebody’s head. Two rocks spin. Is it possible to stop the mind?
After experiencing a traumatic event in Igloolik (an Inuit hamlet in Foxe Basin, Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut), Uyarak leaves her community and family in Nunavut to live in Montréal. When Covid-19 lockdowns close off the Canadian Arctic from the rest of the world, Uyarak is further separated from her closest friend,… ⊕
1987, 08:02 minutes, B & W
tapecode 066.21
The Correspondence explores the physical and psychological distance between a couple. The sensibility of a silent film - gritty black and white animation accompanied by an original score for the piano. The sequences were shot on film, then transferred to video via sand-blasted glass to enhance the sensory quality of film. Shot… ⊕
2023, 09:55 minutes, B&W and colour
tapecode 2175.00
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… ⊕