For more on Joyce Wieland, read my book, Codes for North: Foundations of the Canadian avant-garde film, which I excerpted for the segment on Joyce's 1933 for Split Tooth Media's Northern Light sampler of Canadian underground film! splittoothmedia.com/northern-light…

A film about coercion that is itself coercive, 'In the Dark' (2000) draws on imminent cultural anxieties as a young woman accepts a challenge from an unknown Master of Games. Read the latest October Horror piece from Stephen Broomer! splittoothmedia.com/in-the-dark/

The essay is now available! splittoothmedia.com/in-the-dark/

My work since 2017 has been concerned with the redemption of the image. Pictured below...Potamkin (2017), Tondal's Vision (2018), Lulu Faustine (2020), Fat Chance (2021). The latest part of this series, The Star Rover (2025), will be available to screen by the end of the year.

This Friday, Ad Hoc will be showing a Halloween double-bill of Kenneth Anger’s Eaux d’Artifice and Sidney Peterson’s The Cage, both screening in 16mm! At Innis College, room 222, 7PM. TRT: 41 minutes.

Tell us: what’s a film you discovered through an archive or restoration that changed how you see cinema? #WorldDayForAudiovisualHeritage #AudiovisualHeritage #FilmPreservation #Archives #CanadianCinema #BlackZero

Making the most of my time in one of Toronto’s most inspiring community spaces and artist studios, working on new restoration projects and new bodies of work.

I’ll be working on conceptualizing a new series of performance video works as well!

You can see if you add some make-up that the mask REALLY doesn't look like me. Look at that neck! Have a wonderful Halloween to all those celebrating!

Very grateful to Jim and the AGO and TIFF for including me! I spent many years studying Joyce's films, which are very important to me, and this is the first time I've ever been invited to present on her work.

The Potted Psalm (Sidney Peterson and James Broughton, 1946). A belated Happy Halloween! May every day be full of myth, mystery and thrills!

Thanks José! Everyone should sign up for José's new initiative, chaos/germ, on substack...

Canadian avant-garde films in feature-rich blu-ray packages! Film school in a box. Consider placing an order today! blackzero.ca

Several years ago I brought the great American filmmaker Saul Levine to Toronto's the8fest, a festival of small-gauge cinema. It's Saul's birthday today - a heroic anti-imperialist diary filmmaker! Watch some of his work to celebrate - vimeo.com/saullevine

Finally cracking the spine on this. Congratulations Will Sloan !

Tonight in Intro to Cinematography: I taught my students about the history of the optical printer and showed them scenes from this masterpiece - Pat O’Neill’s Water and Power.