Date Night -- Another Set of Jaws -- A Heated Exchange (2024, colour video, 6.15)
Three short vignettes that interrupt and subvert representations of masculinity in Hollywood films.
screenings. Festival of [In]Appropriation
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Toronto, Old and New (2024, two versions: live performance 16mm colour & b&w film; video; 18.00)
Joint co-directors Jean-Pierre Marchant & John Price
Music: Greg Jones
Juxtaposing found footage, paper ephemera, and newly shot 16mm material, “Toronto, Old and New” explores the relationship between past and present in Canada’s largest city.
The Places We Lived (2022, video, colour & b&w, 24.00)
The Places We Lived uses a large family archive of Super8 and digital home movies from the mid-1970s to late 1990s to grapple with the hopes, dreams, and disappointments of two South American immigrants who moved to Montreal in the wake of the excitement and optimism of Expo ’67.
screenings. aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (Toronto), International Portrait Film Fest (Sofia, Bulgaria)
awards. Best Documentary, aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival
A Parent’s Wishlist (2021, video, colour & b&w, 6.16)
A short film about upward mobility and working class aspirations, A Parent's Wishlist focuses on a set of objects that could be found in many North American homes between the middle to late 20th century, and how they came to symbolise my father's wish for a better life.
screenings. Galvanized Suns Film Festival (Hosted by Diasporic Futurisms), International Portrait Film Fest (Sofia, Bulgaria), Video Fever Festival (Trinity Square Video)
A Life on the Borderlands (2021, video, colour & b&w, 9.03)
A film focusing on my father, who immigrated to Montreal from Chile in the early 1970s after a hard-scrabble life on the streets of Santiago as a youth. Like my mother, who immigrated from Argentina around that time, his mobile life was characterised by neither chain migration nor lasting social ties with members of his ethnic group. His story is also one about class, politics, and complicated histories of migration and exile.
screenings. Lockdown Film Fest (Toronto), WNDX (Winnipeg), Photophobia (Hamilton)
awards. TLN Telelatino Essay Prize
My Father The Watchmaker (work in progress) (2020, video, b&w & colour Super8 film, 4.00)
A work in progress about time and obsolescence.
screenings. Trinity Square Video’s Video Fever
The Sweater (2020, video, b&w & colour Super8 & 16mm, 5.00)
Historian Carolyn Steedman, in writing about her own working-class childhood, describes how, for children of working-class families, it is often the mother and not the father who embodies power. The child experiences a father who is relatively powerless in the larger social world outside the home, so that even if he is physically powerful, as my father was, he can simultaneously be perceived as a weak man.
screenings. aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival (Toronto), International Portrait Film Fest (Sofia, Bulgaria), University of Winnipeg Film Festival
awards. Best Screenplay Award, University of Winnipeg Film Festival; Nominee, “Best Documentary,” “Best Director,” “Best Editing,” University of Winnipeg Film Festival
Parallax (2018, video, hand-processed colour Super8, 2m50)
“Parallax” is about stripping away all ornamentation and capturing unmoving landscapes over time.
screenings. WNDX (Winnipeg), Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers Members’ Screening and Directors Talk
Driving Around In Circles (In the Suburbs) (2018, video, 1.30 continuous loop)
Repetitive street names, curvilinear paths, illogical routes, dead ends.
screenings. Nightingale Cinema Online Film Festival (Chicago), Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF)
Built In Their Image (2018, two versions: single channel video installation; colour video; 4.13)
Conformity, utopia and mass consumption.
screenings. Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF) Members’ Screening and Directors Talk, Lethbridge Independent Film Society (LIFS) Member Screening
Walking To Save-On (2016, video, hand processed b&w and colour Super8, 3.54)
A journey on foot to a local grocery store whose days are numbered.
Screenings: Antimatter [Media Art], Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers On Location: Member Screening, Crossing Boundaries, Happenings 9, Montreal Underground Film Festival, Northwest Film Fest, Pile of Bones Underground Film Fest, Prairie Tales REDUX
Fernfeld (2016, video, hand processed colour Super8, 3.42)
music. Kompakt Winter Ambient - Max Würden
Hand-processed Super8 timelapse of the Southern Alberta landscape.
Snake Alley (2015, video, b&w Super8, 4.45)
Created by Lethbridge's founding fathers to deal with the snakes plaguing the early settlement, no one knows where Snake Alley begins or ends, or whether it exists.
screenings. Lethbridge Alberta Motion Picture Showcase, FAVA (Edmonton), Calgary Comic Expo
The Hitch-Hiker (2015, video, colour & b&w, 30m)
A chance encounter on a moonlit prairie highway leads to murder.
screenings. L.A. Neo Noir Novel, Film & Script Festival, Media Film Festival (USA), Queen Scarlet Cinema (Lethbridge), Calgary International Film Festival, Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers Member Screening, Action On Film Fest (USA), Jasper Short Film Fest
awards. Nominated for Best Soundtrack - Short; Nominated for Best Supporting Actor - Short; Jasper Short Film Fest (JSFF), People’s Choice Award
Visions Of An Imperfect Mind (2014, video, colour & b&w, 2.04)
“Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.”
screenings. FAVA Awards of Excellence (Edmonton),Dark Matters Short Film Festival (Edmonton), Happenings 3 (Arts Commons, Calgary), Gallery of Alberta Media Art (GAMA) Arts Commons (Edmonton), Gotta Minute Film Fest (Edmonton), Jasper Film Fest, Media Film Festival (Media, PA), Toronto Underground Film Fest (TUFF)