Music Videos: Independent Artists
Produced and directed over 40 music videos, featuring
performances by Bob Wiseman, The Flying Bulgier Klezmer Band, and the Tuva
Ensemble. 95-99.
Sui Zen: Shakuhachi Society. A 700 year old story of the excommunicated Samarai Warriors
journey from the Bamboo Forests of Japan to 21Century America. Sui Zen
or Breathing meditation with a bamboo flute, was the tool many
denounced Samarai's used to transform their shame into a spiritual path
that has continued until today. Summer 98
Mind Control: Video Letter to President Clinton
Produced Video with CKLN radio journalist, Wayne Morris to
request for a Presidential Hearing and Inquiry on mind control experiments,
including taped statements by survivors of CIA funded human experimentation.
Road to Rumba
Directed, edited and produced 42min. music documentary on the streets of Cuba.
Shot before the 'Buena Vista Social Club', "Road to Rhumba" meanders amongst Havana's Rumba musicians, street performers, and the sacred dances of the "orishas"(Gods of the Santaria religion). Nov. 97
Undertopia, Independent Dance Video
Directed and produced underwater video dance performance in
collaboration with Dancer, Calla Lachance. Performance included 16 of Toronto's
local contact dancers and artists, including Allen & Karen Kaeja and John
Oswald. June 97
The Toronto Gamelan Summit: Small World Music Society
Shot various music videos including The Toronto Gamelan
Summit highlighting the best groups in Indonesian Gamelan Music. Toronto.
1997
Dis
Directed and edited a highly kinetic experimental film featuring a 16mm bolex camera as it cuts, distorts, disintegrates,
reconstructs and objectifies the body. A collaborative project with dancer and
choreographers Lori McLean and Kelly Hargraves. Funded by the Ontario
Arts Council. 95.
Screefer
Produced and edited 30 min film depicting a day in the life
of Northern Ontario tree planters. Along with music and
candid photography 'Screefer' documents a beauty and misery of working with
trees. May 94.
Ash Monday, Independent
Editor and cinematographer on Kelly Thorton's dramatic
short. July. 1998
Montuno Police,
Produced and directed Promotional music video for various
local Toronto Artists, including Rick Lazar's Montuno Police. 97
Marquesa
Collaborated with Jeff Ibsen and Wayne Morris (from S.C.W.)
in producing soundtrack for Karen Young's Art/Documentary video portraying the
Dominatrix scene in Toronto. 1996.
BRAVO!,
City/Much/Bravo television network
Edited various ZOOM productions in conjunction with Bravo's
AVID 8000 editing suite. 1996-98
Eat Your Heart Out
Madame DeFarge,
Directed and produced video in collaboration with Janet
Morton's textile installation, 'Eat Your Heart Out Madame Defarge', The video
was displayed on Queen St.,
The Textile Museum, and reviewed in Toronto Arts Magazine. Project was funded
by Ontario Arts Council. Mar.95.
Dances off the wall
Directed video of works of Gina Lori Riley and Judy Jarvis'
choreography. Solo and duet performances. Mar. 93.
Mocojumbies,
Produced video for Gina Lori Riley's dance performance Mocojumbies. A Trinidadian folk tale performance with physically and mentally
challenged children for the Conference of Exceptional Children.(C.E.C.) Nov.
93.
Experimental Filmmaking
Directed and produced 5 experimental films during undergrad studies at Concordia fIlm University, including "Serpentine Things", "Lunatic Fringe", and "Rush Hour" Highly treated imagery on JK optical printer, produced in the tradition of American Avant guarde filmmaking. 1988-1990
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