Movies

"Here is the quintessential Hancox 'personal documentary,' a film in which both the production and role of traditional documentary and...

Impressions of a marriage on the lakeshore, the lapping of water, and the mediation of a movie camera.

A drug encounter between a P.E.I. farmer and a hippie from "Upper Canada" who thinks he's Christ.

An autobiographical film ballad about dodging dog dung in New York City.

Using fragmented personal imagery, "Next to Me" renders Cartier-Bresson's theory of the "decisive moment" fully in cinematic terms. The film is an...

The visual ‘documentary’ material in House Movie comprises essentially ‘home movie’ footage. While the great majority of this...

This film completes a trilogy of landscape/poetry films, which include “Waterworx” (1982) and “Landfall” (1983), and was shot...

Landfall was shot in Prince Edward Island, near the family home on the Northumberland Strait. The original footage, shot in 1974, was a kind of...

The waterworks in the beaches area of Toronto is the source of an image, perhaps eidetic, from my early childhood. It always had an enigmatic...

A wryly humorous excavation of history and personal memory, Moose Jaw is a reflexive view of the filmmaker’s childhood town in the Canadian...