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title. Driving Around In Circles (In the Suburbs)
date. 2018
medium. video, colour, 1m30s continuous loop
Repetitive street names, curvilinear paths, illogical routes, dead ends. Driving in the suburbs can entail repeating a certain maneuver over and over again.
title. Parallax
date. 2018
medium. Super8 film, colour, 2m50s
Timelapse film done in Fernie, BC, on Vision3 50D Super8 film with C-41 hand-processing.
Screenings
• WNDX, Winnipeg, MB, 2018
title. Built In Their Image
date. 2018
medium. video installation, single channel, colour, 4m13s
Using a 1950s film about the suburbs, “Built In Their Image” critiques the way suburb developers advertise to citizens. Through a juxtaposition of archival sound and contemporary image, the film asks how much notions of conformity, utopia, and mass-consumption have changed the concept of community since the 1950s until the present day.
itle. Walking To Save-On
date. 2016
medium. hand processed Super8 film, B&W and colour, 3m54s
A film about my daily journey on foot to a grocery store whose days are numbered. The walk takes place in the windy southern Alberta city of Lethbridge (pop, 80k). A place where sinners and the saved lead largely separate lives, and where wind storms are so frequent that residents are continually engaged in the Sisyphean task of sweeping leaves. A place where going to the "meat market” was a real thing. A place where the "North Side" beyond the train tracks was frozen in time in the 1980s, and has been crumbling ever since...
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itle. Fernfeld
date. 2017
medium. Super8 film, 3m42s
music. Kompakt Winter Ambient - Max Würden
Hand-processed Super8 timelapse of the Southern Alberta landscape, accompanied by Würden's sublime music.
itle. Snake Alley
date. 2016
medium. Super8 film, B&W, 4m45s
cast. Garrett M Scott, Brent Coulton, Jane Edmundson, William Ramp, JP Marchant, Victor Nakatsuru, Darcy Logan
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 where it exists. Pete goes to Snake Alley to find out what happened to his best friend Brent. He must be careful not to lose his way as he is stalked by snakes, confronts the Lost Souls, and is followed by someone familiar to him...