Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables screened in a garden setting at XINEMA and UNIT/PITT's Budding screening on July 24, 2024 in Vancouver, BC. The program was curated by Kasper Feyrer and Kara Hansen and included some stellar experimental films from some of my favourite filmmakers! Feyrer and Hansen also facilitated a Fairy Clocks workshop July 20-21!
A very special screening of botanical films presented by the Dandelion Film Collective (Derek Jenkins/Lesley Loksi Chan) and selected by Franci Duran and Derek Jenkins. Took place on November 2nd at Hamilton's historic Playhouse Cinema.
Needles will be screening alongside films by Cecilia Arneda, Yuula Benivolski, Cristal Buemi Karell Doing, Franci Duran, Larissa Fan, Siyao Guo, Bea Haut, Derek Jenkins, and Robin Riad; as well as a special communal film created by participants at the 2023 Phytogramming Workshop. The program is dedicated to the memory of award-winning local artist-filmmaker Josephine Massarell, whose later works celebrated the landscape and the natural beauty in in southern Ontario.
I had the pleasure to interview Jacquelyn Mills about her film Geographies of Solitude during the 2023 WIFT-AT Making Waves conference. Thank you Jacquelyn and WIFT-AT!
Dendrology Dreams for Big Agnes had its premier during HIFF 2023! Filmed and developed during the Handmad Film Institute's Wilderness Film Expedition in 2017, revisited with a new edit. Dendrology Dreams for Big Agnes is a 2022 digital re-edit from an original silent film entitled snaggle which was filmed, developed, hand spliced, and screened during the Handmade Film Institute's Wilderness Film Expedition in 2017.
Dendrology Dreams for Big Agnes is more hallucinatory than the original film snaggle and incorporates the audio pareidolia I experienced during the expedition. In the mountains, we didn't have contact with other humans or civilization for nearly the entire 12-day expedition. The only sounds I experienced were made by the other people in the expedition or the ones that nature was making, for example the conifers blowing in the wind, the occasional rock falling, and always in the background the constant, steady rush of a mountain stream. Audio pareidolia is also known as musical ear syndrome,a phenomenon where the brain attempts to find a pattern of the sound it is hearing and attempts to fit this pattern with one that is already in its memory. After about the sixth day, I began to hear the faint sound of a marching band embedded in the mountain stream. I thought it might be nice to share that experience in a film.
In August, The Handmade Film Collective hosted the Celluloid Mentorship Program in Cumberland County! A week-long mentorship program for emerging fibre and film artists interested in pursuing sustainable plant-based techniques in their practices. A beautiful, memorable week of cross pollination between film and fibre arts.
Very excitted that Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables will be screening at the Fisura International Experimental Film and Video Festival in Mexico City on April 19th, 2022!
Summer in Geneva! See Weeds will be screening all summer long at Vitrine Cinéma in Geneva as a part of SOLAR NOSTALGIA curated by Émilie Poirier.
Thank you Braziers Park International Film Festival for screening Needles at this year's gathering. A wonderful weekend it will be!
In the afternoon of Saturday, September 10th See Weeds will be a small part of a super cool event in Wilton Lodge Park. Chef Anthony Khoury will be serving a free plant-based Town Meal made with ingredients grown onsite at the garden. Guests are encouraged to seek out the willow arches screening booths around the garden where film installations exploring the theme of climate will be shown. The program was specially curated by young people in the Scottish Borders. Thank you to Alchemy Film & Arts for the invitation to be a part of this beautiful event!
Solar powered cinema caravan! Check it out at Moving Images Caravan or at Moving Images Caravan Facebook Site. Kerry Jones will be taking films curated by Alchemy Film & Arts New Programmers to various community gardens in the Scottish Borders. This screenings are also apart of the Climate Fringe Festival who are funding Claire Pencak to facilitate a series of Climate conversations. Hope you will be able to attend one of these enlighting events!
Film Seeds Tour!! See Weeds is going on tour in a solar powered cinema caravan! Check it out at Moving Images Caravan or at Moving Images Caravan Facebook Site. Kerry Jones will be taking films curated by Alchemy Film & Arts New Programmers to various community gardens in the Scottish Borders. This screenings are also apart of the Climate Fringe Festival who are funding Claire Pencak to facilitate a series of Climate conversations. Hope you will be able to attend one of these enlighting events!
In the afternoon of Saturday, September 10th See Weeds will be a small part of a super cool event in Wilton Lodge Park. Chef Anthony Khoury will be serving a free plant-based Town Meal made with ingredients grown onsite at the garden. Guests are encouraged to seek out the willow arches screening booths around the garden where film installations exploring the theme of climate will be shown. The program was specially curated by young people in the Scottish Borders. Thank you to Alchemy Film & Arts for the invitation to be a part of this beautiful event!
Hope you will be able to visit the online screening Collective Work presented by the Lightproof Film Collective on VUCAVU between November 23 and December 7, 2022. This screening of twelve experimental short films celebrates films from two newly formed Canadian film collectives The Lightproof Film Collective in Ottawa and the Handmade Film Collective in the Martimes.
In conjuction with the Collective Work screening the Lightproof Film Collective has invited me to present an eco-processing seminar on Sunday, Decmeber 4th at 3:00 Atlantic Standard Time. Thank you LFC!
Thrilled to be included with some fantastic filmmakers in the Left With Dreams screening, curratated by Brittney Appleby. This screening is a part of the month long Capture Photo Festival April 2-30, 2021.
A new film needles will be premiering at the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival June 24-27.
The film was commissioned by the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative for their Plants on Film Program. The program includes films by The Handmade Film Collective's Herb Theriault, Rena Thomas as well as Todd Fraser, Devon Pennick Reilly & Bria Stark, and Kate Ward. Filmmakers were challenged to create new 16mm films responding to the theme of plants, using one or more handmade filmmaking techniques.
Needles ia a Covidian era film featuring needles of the spruce, balsam, and pine trees of Nova Scotia. The film was processed in needles and caffenol and uses the technique of photogramming.
Honoured to have Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables screen at Braziers International Film Festival. The festival has a wonderful selection of films that will screened September 3-5th in the ancient barn of Braziers Park College.
Hope you will be able to take in some of the fine films at FIN Atlanic Interntional Film Festival this year! Atlantic Shorts Program 1 includes stellar film from filmmakers I admire. Excited that needles is included in this screening. This year FIN is a hybrid festival - taking place both in person and online. Perhaps I'll see you at the movies!
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, in Seattle, WA runs from October 28-31. There will be 70 short films and one feature film from 18 countries - all originiating on FILM!!! This year the festival will be online and in the theatre. needles screens in the Slow Volumes Program on Friday, October 29th at 7:00pm, but I highly recommend checking out many of the other awesome programs over the weekend. This festival surpises and inspires, if you love film this festival is for you!
Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables will be screening at WNDX. WNDX is a fantastic festivals with excellent programming. This year the festival runs October 6-10!
Silver Wave Film Festival is going hybrid November 4-11! Some wonderful films to be seen on your screen, needles will be in the Canadian Shorts I program.
Anthology for Fruits and Vegtables will be screening at the fantastic Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival November 17 in the Analog Works Program along with some other very fine films.
At First Light: An evening of experimental film at Club SAW November 21, 2021. This will be the Lightproof Film Collective's (LFC) first public screening ever! The Handmade Film Collective is thrilled and grateful for this collaboration with the LFC in Ottawa. All of the films in the program originated on super8, 16mm, or 35mm film stock and feature new work from both collectives. Stick around for a special Q&A with LFC filmmakers following the screening. Please remember to bring proof of vaccination & ID.
Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables will be screening at the Inferface Video Art Festival December 12-18.
Excited that Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables will be screening at the 17th London Short Film Festival on January 11th as part of the Peripheral Visions program!
Chistmas Laundry screens at the8fest as part of the Bagroo program on January 26!
Thank you to everyone for coming out to the Handmade Film Screening on January 28th at the Bus Stop Theatre! What a beautiful night of Handmadefilms from the East and West Coasts of Canada.
So happy to announce that Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables will be a part of EMMEDIA's Particle + Wave: Feature Night on Saturday, February 1, 2020!
Thrilled that Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables screened at the 33rd Images Festival on Saturday April 18th at 7:30pm ADT in the Good Look Now program! This was the first time that Images was Live Streamed with many filmmakers participating in the live Q & A Check out the program with the cool eggplant on the cover here.
Delighted to be screening at Film & and Moving Image Festival! Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables is screening on Sunday, May 3rd at 9:00am ADT (1:00pm BST) in The Index Impulse program. Many exciting moving image works will be presented over the three day Live Stream festival.
See Weeds is part of the Best of the 22st Moviate Festival put on by the friends at the MOVIATE Underground Film Festival! Please check on the on-line screening celebration on May 22, 2020 at 9:00pm ADT!
Every Thursday, throughout the summer, the Owens Art Gallery is hosting an on-line screening selected by guest or Owens' curators. The June program is being curated by filmmaker, Todd Fraser. Each week a new work will be screened. Check out the site each week to see great work from Louise Bourque, Rena Thomas, and Amanda Dawn Christie.
Excited that Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables was part of the Owens Video Club June 11th-17th!
Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables will be screening in Australia as part of the Revelation Perth International Film Festival - Couched Virtual Fest from July 9-19! The film will be part of the Experimental Short Film Showcase #1: The Medium is the Message program. Honoured to be included in this dynamic festival.
Please check out Photophobia: Contemporary Moving Image Festival a partnership between the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Hamilton Artists Inc. from August 6-8th! Anthology for Fruits and Vegetableswill be screen on August 8, 2020.
Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables screens in Nashville at the groundbreaking Defy Film Festival September 12, 2020.
Happy to announce that Anthology for Fruist and Vegetables will be screening at LUASANNE Underground Film & Music Festival in the Liquid Creeatures Program on October 16 & 18, 2020.
FLIGHT/Mostra Internazionale del cinema di Genova screens Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables October 12, 2020.
On November 3rd at 6:30pm I'll be participating in Sound, Silence and Ecosperimental Film - a short films and panel discussion with Sol Nagler, Lukas Pearse, and Rena Thomas hosted by Dr. Shannon Brownlee, Associate Director of Cinema and Media Studies at Dalhousie Universiy. Hope you will be able to join us virutally for the event!
Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables screens at the fantastic Moviate Underground Film Festival November 12, 2020.
Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables screens at the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival November 13, 2020.
Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables will be screening down under at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival December 9-13, in the Experimental Showcase #1: The Medium is the Message Program!
Very excited to be a part of VASTLAB Experimental Film Festival December 17-20, Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables screens on Sunday.
The Handmade Analogue Filmmakers Collective hosts their first evening of Handmade Film at the Bus Stop Theatre January 29th!
See Weeds was part of the closing night shorts program at Moviate Underground Film Festival in Harrisburg, PA on May 26.
Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables receives distributed from Video Pool
We R the World/Mold was part of the Fast Forward exhibition curated by Lisa Theriault at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, PEI June 1 - September 1
Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables premiered at FIN Atlantic International Film Festival on Full Moon, Friday, September 13th at 9:10pm with an encore presentation on Sunday, September 15th at 9:10pm.
See Weeds screened at the at the Syracuse International Film Festival on Sunday, October 13th at 3:00pm
Screening of Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables at the Festival du nouveau cinéma on October 11th and October 18th as part of the les nouveaux alchimistes 2 program.
Silver Wave Film Festival screended Anthology for Fruits and Vegetables on November 9!
CBC has this amazing 30-minute program called CBC Arts: Exhibitionists - every week, this dynamic series features Canadian artists working in all sorts of mediums. The program introduces you to cool art, the people that make it, and why they do it. I was absolutely delighted to be the Exhibitionist in Residence for Season 5, Episode 9 - Neon Dreams! The whole series is excellent. If you get a chance, check out all 5 Seasons; you won't be disappointed and you'll learn cool stuff too!
See Weeds opened for the beautiful documentary Jane at Carbon Arc on March 3rd as a part of the Shorts Before Features Initiative presented by Carbon Arc and HIFF and supported by Telefilm Canada.
See Weeds was part of the Grow Op 2018 Exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, Ontario April 18-22.
See Weeds screened at the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival May 3-7 in Heart of Harwick in the Scottish Borders.
See Weeds screened during the the Indie Street Film Festival in Red Bank, NJ July 25-29th!
We R the World/Mold was on display at the Carmelite Cafe at the Bow Art Centre's Nunnery Gallery beginning September 28th.
See Weeds was a part of the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York City October October 12-19th!
Happy to return to the Parrsboro Film Festival to present a Q & A about the making of See Weeds.
Proud to be included in the inaugural Engauge Experimental Film Festival in Seattle, WA November 8-10th.
See Weeds was a finalist in the Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, November 25th!
Thrilled that We R the World/Mold won the Director's Choice Award and was apart of the 2017 Black Maria Tour Program.
We R the World/Mold screened at the Oxford Film Festival February 17th!
We R the World/Mold screened February 25 at 7:00 pm at the Sussex County Community College Performing Arts Center in Newton, NJ as a part of the 2017 Black Maria Touring Program.
We R the World/Mold screened at the West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival March 24-26!
We R the World/Mold was a part of the From Her Viewpoint: Animated Short Films Directed by Women at Women Making Waves!
Carbon Arc screened We R the World/Mold before Jeffrey McKay's Call of the Forrest March 24th at 7:00pm!!
Dawson City International Short Film Festival screened We R the World/Mold April 15th!
We R the World/Mold received and Honorable Mention in the Experimental Film Category at the 50th Annual Humboldt International Film Fest
We R the World/Mold won the Jury Award for Creative Achievement at the 2017 Arizona International Film Festival
Montreal Underground Film Festival to screened We R the World/Mold in the Midnight Dread screening on May 19th!
We R the World/Mold screened at the 4th International Motion Festival in Cyprus in May!!
See Weeds had its premier in June at HIFF.
We R the World/Mold screened at GAZE #16 in San Francisco on June 17th!
FIN - Atlantic International Film Festival screened See Weeds on Sept 18th at 9:00pm and Sept 20th at 8:30pm
Thrilled that We R the World/Mold screened at SuperNova Digital Outdoor Animation Festival in Denver on September 23rd.
We R the World/Mold was a part of Black Maria's Free Rein Program Saturday, September 23rd at 5:30pm in New York City!
We R the World/Mold had its Romanian premier at SIMULTAN 2017 in Timisoara October 3-7th
Excited to have See Weeds screen at WNDX Festival of Moving Image on Friday, October 6th 9:00pm!
See Weeds screened as part of the Court Métrage les nouveaux alchimistes 1 at Festival du nouveau cinéma
Was honoured to be a part of CineEco in Seia, Portugal from October 14-23rd.
See Weeds had its BC premier on October 19th at the 20th Annual Antimatter [Media Art] festival in Victoria!
Delighted that See Weeds was shown at the Parrsboro Film Festival October 28th!
Was happy to have See Weeds screen at the 17th Annual Silver Wave Film Festival November 4th!
See Weeds had its Ontario Premier at the Hamilton Film Festival November 7th at 7:00pm!
Thrilled that We R the World/Mold was part of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival November 8-12th.
London Experimental Film Festival screened We R the World/Mold December 3rd!
Kaunas International Film Festival screened See Weeds Sunday December 10th.
Bees 'n Trees screened at the Colorado Environmental Film Festival in Golden, Saturday, February 20th at 7:00pm!
European Premier of Negative Nature at the Kinofilm Manchester on Thursday, February 25th at 6:30pm at Apotheca Bar.
Submission screened as a part of the "Archives of the Future" exhibit at the Dalhousie University Art Gallery March 10th through April 17th.
We R the World/Mold Premiers at HIFF! June 2017!
We R the World/Mold screens as part of the Toronto Independent Film Festival Thursday, September 15th at 7:45pm!
Bees 'n Trees plays at the Hebrides International Film Festival in Scotland September 16th & 17th!
We R the World/Mold screens at the Atlantic Film Festival in the Atlantic Shorts 5 Program on Sunday, September 18th at 4:00pm.
Pile of Bones Underground Film Festival screens We R the World/Mold on September 30th!
WNDX screens We R the World/Mold on October 1st!
The Hamilton Film Festival shows We R the World/Mold on Tuesday, November 8th at 9:30pm!
We R the World/Mold screens in Fredericton at the Silver Wave Film Festival!
South Texas Underground Film Festival screening We R the World/Mold November 10th-13th.
Bees 'n Trees premiered at Front Range Film Festival April 30th! Second screening on May 2nd with Negative Nature.
Ants on a Log 16mm film loop installation was shown on the opening night of HIFF.
Life on the Inside at Echo Park Film Centre on June 20th at 8:00pm as a part of "All You Need Is a Camera" curated by Hillary Titley!
Negative Nature screened in Denver at the Intendence Film Festival on June 26th at 6:00pm.
Columbia Gorge Film Festival screened Negative Nature on August 13th at 5:00pm at the Camas Library in Camas, WA.
Bees 'n Trees screened in at the Woodstock Museum Festival at 10:30pm Saturday, September 5th!
Lunenburg Doc Fest From the Edge of the Atlantic: Experimental Short Films on Saturday, September 26th at 9:00pm with filmmaker Q & A!
Sunrise Film Festival screened Negative Nature at the River John Library Thursday, October 8th at 2:00pm.
Antimatter [Media Art] Festival screened Negative Nature Thursday, October 22!
Bees 'n Trees included in the Green Market at Planet in Focus in Toronto!
Negative Nature screened with Christopher Spencer-Lowe's Transfer at 10th Annual Hamilton Film Festival on November 5th.
Negative Nature & the Canadian Premier of Bees 'n Trees both screen on Saturday, November, 7th at Silver Wave in Fredericton.
Negative Nature premiered in Halifax at the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival.
Negative Nature nominated Best Experimental Film at Yorkton Film Festival!
Negative Nature screened at the Atlantic Film Festival!
Island Media Arts Festival screened Negative Nature Saturday, October 25th at 4:00pm!
Parrsboro Film Festival screened Negative Nature on Saturday, October 25th at 10:00am!
Negative Nature at The Propeller Centre for Visual Arts (Toronto) for the Annual Black and White Ball exhibition.
Adaptation premiered at the 7th Annual Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival on April 11th at 9:00pm.
Adaptation screened at the Island Media Arts Festival in the "WTF- Watch These Films" Program on May 25th at 9:00pm.
Adaptation had its New Brunswick Premier at the 2013 Silver Wave Film Festival.
Gratitude had its US premier at the Awareness Festival in Los Angeles, California on May 5th, 2012.
Animation Automation group show curated by Liz MacDougall May 18-30th, 2012 at the Khyber Centre for the Arts.
Life on the Inside, was nominated for best Canadian Film at the 2012 Silver Wave Film Festival.
Christmas Laundry was voted best film at Afcoop's 2012 Super 8 Holiday Film Challenge.