Screenplay: Chris Kennedy

Direction Chris Kennedy

Synopsis Made as an experiment in handprocessing, the film cycles through five different film stocks and a variety of processing methods. The result creates dimensional havoc in the image. The concept of inside and outside is troubled and the act of...

Direction Chris Kennedy

Synopsis Shot in the Genesee Valley of New York state last fall on regular 8mm to commemorate the last rolls of Kodachrome. The colours of the leaves and the film stock are augmented by orange colour filters, boosting the contrast and...

Direction Chris Kennedy

Synopsis An artistic aerial view of the city of San Francisco.

Direction Chris Kennedy

Synopsis A simple intersection in Wuppertal, Germany becomes a microcosm of the patterns of everyday life. Cars trace the angles of the streets, pedestrians forge new paths and Wuppertal’s famed Schwebebahn turns our expectations upside-down. Shot on Super 8 in Wuppertal...

Direction Chris Kennedy

Synopsis A quick defamiliarization of a familiar San Francisco landmark.

Direction Chris Kennedy

Synopsis “A digitally animated version of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #349, which was commissioned by Toronto’s Mercer Union gallery in 1981. Recreating LeWitt’s geometric vocabulary and primary colour palette, 349 careens through emblazoned emblems, lifted from walls and transported into dialogue...

Direction Chris Kennedy

Cast Richard Roxburgh · Miranda Otto · Matt Day · Tony Barry

Direction Bryce Olson

Cast René Ashton · Brody Hutzler · Julia Duffy · Cris Judd

Synopsis A single woman sick of being deceived by philandering married men finds her fool-proof plan for revenge backfiring in a way she never anticipated in a romantic comedy starring Lacy Chabert and Julia Duffy. Rylee is a trusting woman who...

Direction Chris Kennedy

Cast Alan Lovell · Lisa Peers · Adam Stone · Natalie McCurry

Direction Chris Kennedy

Synopsis “As Benjamin had predicted, nothing brings the promise of happiness encoded at the birth of a technological form to light as effectively as the fall into obsolescence of its final stages of development.” (Rosalind Krauss)

Direction Chris Kennedy

Synopsis Inspired in part by a poem by Toronto poet Ryan Kamstra, the acrobat is a consideration of the relationship of gravity and politics – the beauty and necessity of rising up, but also, perhaps, the significance of allowing oneself to...

Direction Chris Kennedy

Direction Chris Kennedy

Synopsis Three freestanding grids placed along the Credit River in rural Ontario (reminiscent of the Dürer Grid used by Renaissance draughtsmen to achieve accurate proportions) become devices through which the stationary camera frames the landscape and creates perspective.

Direction Chris Kennedy

Synopsis A study of the incongruous and iconic suspended monorail in Wuppertal Germany. Shot on super 8 and finished on 35mm film, Phantoms expertly employs the exaggerated grainy texture of the emulsion to suggest a netherworld out of time, both science...

Direction Chris Kennedy

Synopsis 8mm unsplit. Streetcars circle. The ferry leaves and returns in one gesture. Camera and character dance.

Direction Chris Kennedy

Synopsis Footage shot in Coba, Mexico and the Siwa Oasis in Egypt and a found film from California serve as inspiration for a series of sketches on the notion of the vanishing point.

Direction Chris Kennedy

Synopsis Texts from the 1969 American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and letters from supporters propel an exploration of political yearning, emancipatory architecture and failed utopias. What does it mean to claim land that has more value as a symbol than as...