Zombie Business

2004 | Super-8 | B&W - colour | 16 min

Le 'zombie business' est en plein essor alors que la 'main invisible' de "l'économie voodoo" crée des êtres jetables. Filmé en super-8, le film évoque le cinéma muet, tout en intégrant des éléments d'horreur, de cinéma expérimental, et de satire politique.

An anti-capitalist zombie film that anachronistically evokes the silent era, 'Zombie Business' tells the story of an encounter between a man who works for an international financial institution and a homeless man named Dan Petro.

Out on Yer Birthday

2005 | miniDV | 15 min 45 sec

Set in a small fishing town in the Maritimes, Out on Yer Birthday depicts an explosive confrontation between a gay teenager and his alcoholic mother on the day when she reads a very lewd and revealing birthday card sent to him by a friend.

Situé dans un petit village de pêche dans les Maritimes, Out on Yer Birthday décrit une confrontation explosive entre un adolescent gai et une mère alcoolique le jour quand elle lit une carte d'anniversaire obscène et révélatrice qu'il a reçue d'un ami.

The Millard Symphony

2007 | 16mm, Super-8 | 15 min

A hypnotic four part journey into the individualistic regime of “motivational” salesmanship.

Uncle Cluck

2007 | 16mm | 5 min

“Chickens are good for two things…
layin’ eggs and barbeques!”
                                          —Uncle Cluck

Kuleshov's Paradox

2006 | colour | 10 min

A woman under hypnosis visualizes an abstracted world of fear and eroding freedoms then awakens to an underwater world far from the chaos above. Inspired by the ghost of Lev Kuleshov, Kuleshov’s Paradox is part 2 of a trilogy focusing on the automobile as an instrument of death and oppression.

Kuleshov's Cabinet

2005 | colour | 5 min

Kuleshov's Cabinet uses four archival films to illustrate the transformation of the automobile as an iconic American image of freedom and innovation to a symbol of death and oppression. Using the principle of the Kuleshov Effect, it is a funeral march evoking notions of oil wars, car bombs, global erosion of freedoms and civil liberties and the paradoxical image of the car as a symbol of modernization.

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Donkey Harvest

2005 | B&W - colour | 11 min

A factory worker loses his job. On his return home to his family, he embarks on a surreal journey where he is confronted with an environment at odds with his social reality.

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View the film at Berlin's Directors Lounge website.

The Invisible Voice of IMU

2004 | B&W - colour | 3 min

Tuberculosis, institutionalization, homelessness, pseudo-democracy, hyper-consumerism, public existence, private space, a chair, a stripper and Ivan Marvin Ulanov are The Invisible Voice of IMU.

House

2004 | colour | 2 min 16 sec

A found footage experimental film. By re-editing sound and image from an archival 50s nuclear testing film, House evokes the sense of displaced home and space in a globalized world of increasingly divided wealth and poverty.

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Searching for Saddam

2004 | colour | 12 min 46 sec

music: Kevin Strychalski and Robert Ouimet
actors: Johnnie Bertocchi

American bounty hunter, Willy C. Justice, searches for Saddam Hussein in the ski hills north of Montreal. He finds himself in a hostile land persuing an elusive and mythical target.