Forged in fire, made on Earth, and confirmed in the heavens.

Ryan Diduck began his studies at the University of Alberta in Film and Media Studies and Sociology in 2002. In 2006, he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in Film Production from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, and is continuing as an MA candidate in Film Studies.

Motion of Light, hand-painted on 16mm film, recalls the all-over movement of certain Abstract Expressionists and Automatistes. Limiting himself to a greyscale palette Lemieux evokes exterior landscapes and ephemeral quotidian objects.

Since 1996 Karl Lemieux has directed several short films such as Bridge with music by Lee Ranaldo, Monophobia with music by Daniel Menche and Motion of Light with music by Olivier Borzeix. He also works on live projections for a variety of musical shows and performances. He is a co-founder of the collective Double Negative, dedicated exclusively to experimental film.

TER is a triptych of one-minute films corresponding to Heaven-Earth-Hell, preceded by an animated trailer.

Ryan Diduck began his studies at the University of Alberta in Film and Media Studies and Sociology in 2002. In 2006, he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in Film Production from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, and is continuing as an MA candidate in Film Studies.

A beautiful cameraless film based on the text and structure of a haiku, breath explores the interplay between sound, image and written word. The soundtrack is created by an optical light reading of three haikus and one short poem, all written by ninth-century Japanese poetesses. The film’s structure is based on the five-seven-five syllabic composition of a typical haiku.

Kelly Egan holds a BA (Honours) in Mass Communication from Carleton University, a MA in Communication and Culture from York/Ryerson University, and a MFA in Film/Video from Bard College. Her films have been screened at major festivals across North America, including the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. In her spare time she enjoys standing at the intersection of visual and musical culture, and listening to the lights change colour.

Boxed into twin rooms yet separated by a thin wall, a brother and sister communicate their desires. Needing each other to perform basic bodily functions such as breathing, Sheila and Nicholas Pye explore collisions of a different sort in their edgy and often hilarious film exposing the vulnerabilities of emotional interdependence.

Sheila Pye lives and works in Toronto. She has completed 8 short films while maintaining an active art practice in performance-based cinema and large format photography. Her work is exhibited in festivals and galleries internationally. She is currently developing her first feature, The Young Arsonists.
Nicholas Pye was born in Torquay, England in 1976. He lives and works in Toronto. Nicholas recently completed his MFA at Concordia University. His work has been primarily of a photographic nature but he often collaborates on short films with his wife, Sheila Pye. Nicholas currently teaches image arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design.

Contact-printed and looped land/escape study, sourced from The 400 Blows and transformed into ghost light.

Having grown up playing hockey on the Canadian prairies, filmmaker Brett Kashmere now lives in Central New York and writes extensively about avant-garde and documentary cinema, music and video, curates international exhibitions, and teaches film production and studies.

[Movement] [Texture] [Fragment] [Abstract] [Rupture] [Loops] [Acoustic] [Frame] [Light] [Digital]

[Julien Idrac] [Ivory Coast_Bouake? France_Paris? Canada_Montreal] [Process? Abstract vs Concrete] [Experience? Minimal vs Saturation] [Systemic? Texture vs Time] [Rhythm? Sound vs Space]

An exploration into perceptual processes in the act of seeing and listening, Chiasmus takes film as a metaphor for the breathing body, through the intercrossing of the medium and the fragmented images of the body in movement. The rhythm and tension created by the interplay between sound and image, and their disjunction and conjunction, aspire to an organic and sensual moment where inside becomes outside, and outside inside.

Originally from Japan, Daichi Saito studied literature and philosophy in the U.S. and Hindi and Sanskrit in India before turning to film art in Montreal. He is a co-founder of Double Negative, a Montreal-based film collective dedicated to experimental filmmaking.

Equal parts improvisational performance, experimental film, behind the scenes documentary, music video, and audio composition, Dumb Angel features sensational 17-year old rock drummer Anders Erickson in a strange, acute, hyper-reality where the unfaltering magic of cinema happens right before the camera’s eye.

Deco Dawson is a filmmaker living in Winnipeg, MB whose short films have screened all over the world. In 2001 Deco’s FILM(dzama) won the Best Short Film Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Most Technically Innovative Film at the 2002 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Dumb Angel has screened at over 50 festivals internationally and has appeared on 3 DVD publications.