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TUFF: Starting Round 7 on September 6 -16th

  TUFF (Toronto Urban Film Festival) is currently in their seventh year, and every year my work has been represented. This year my film Grief Without Fantasy will be shown every 10 minutes in all subway platforms, premiering on September 6. Grief Without Fantasy has been added to the Unsolved Mysteries programme along with several other silent one-minute films. […]

Under New Management: Video Store

Independent curators, Suzanne Carte and Su-Ying Lee have conceived an interesting project that comments on the retail environment and how it connects to the local community. “Under New Management: Video Store” exhibition takes the form of a video rental store that carries artists’ videos. Rather than employing conventional retail methods, “customers” to this unique gallery […]

Funnel History

My eminent colleague, filmmaker, Mike Hoolboom has been hard at work interviewing some past members of the Funnel. The Funnel was an artist-run centre in Toronto that I worked, slept and screened films at back in the 1980s. Ah so long ago. He has posted an excerpt (link) of his interview with me from Practice […]

The Korsakow System: Database Filmmaking for the Web at HASTAC

HASTAC 2013 will bring together 5 keynote speakers, 150 refereed papers, panels and demos, a maker space, curated digital performances and over 200 attendees including established and emerging scholars, artists and authors, tech entrepreneurs and teachers, to explore alternative modes of creating, innovating, and critiquing that better address the interconnected, diverse, interactive global nature of […]

Skin Deep featured in “Explosion in the Movie Machine”

Images Festivalin Toronto is launching “Explosion in the Movie Machine”, a new anthology (Co-published by Images + LIFT, edited by Chris Gehman) of contemporary reflections, critical texts, historical documents and visual documentation that examine the depth, brilliance and contradictions of Toronto’s media arts ecology and history. Included in the book is an essay by Jonathan […]

Toy Camera & Mobile Movies workshop at Charles Street Video

I am excited to be teaching a one-day workshop on toy cameras and mobile movies at Charles Street Video (CSV) on March 3rd Sunday. We will review the aesthetics and possibilities of small format videos, different shooting and editing techniques, and shoot footage that will be edited and completed in this one-day workshop. “Toy cameras […]

Grief Without Fantasy featured on Open Book: Toronto

My short video Grief Without Fantasy, based on Ronna Bloom’s poem from the book Cloudy with a Fire in The Basement, is featured on OpenBookToronto.com, a hub for Toronto’s vibrant literary scene, as Video of the Week. Check out the post on Open Book: Toronto, as well as two other videos, On Holiday and Use […]

Artist Talk at the University of Toronto Scarborough

I’m pleased to be presenting at the University of Toronto Scarborough as the first speaker of the new series of artist talks, “Exploring Interdisciplinarity and Cultural Pluralism in Media Arts”, presented by Cultural Pluralism in the Arts and the Department of Arts, Culture and Media. “Featuring a screening of a variety of video projects produced […]

30 x 30: One Night of Super 8 Films for Thirty Years of LIFT

Earlier this year my new film The Grand Design was screened at AGO Jackman Hall with other works commissioned by the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT). The program 30 x 30 will be screening at the Theatre and Centre Gallery at Museum London, Ontario, on October 18th, 2012. “In celebration of three decades […]

TUFF: Watch and Vote September 7 -17

I am pleased to announce that one of my vidoodles, “a day in the life…”, will be screened in this year’s Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) running from September 7 – 17 as part of the official selections. Together with other silent, urban-themed shorts, “a day in the life…” will be broadcasted every 10 minutes […]