Experimental Films (E)

In this section, films are grouped under the name of the filmmaker. Titles are listed alphabetically under each filmmaker's name.

Ellie Epp

bright and dark
24 min. 1996

An experimental film exploring the magical chemistry sensed inside us like light dancing in sealed dark places.

Current
2:30 min. silent 1985

The conceptual and minimalist aesthetic of this film refers to the more complex metaphysical and alchemical transformations which occur when silver is exposed to tungsten light. These currents of light, like Daniel Buren's striped conceptual art, refer to the basic nature of representation while attempting to resist and transform traditional viewing habits or consumption. Currentis a beautiful meditation on these realities. (Maria Insell)

Notes in Origin
15 min. 1987

Made in and near a farm house in northern Alberta, this film takes the structural findings of the filmmaker's earlier work, Trapline, to a new edge by using long-take shots divided by black leader.

"What I like in film is precision, slightness, economy of means, delight,inference, and a kind of motion that can be followed but not tagged, and makes seeing intelligent." (E.E.)

Trapline
18 min. 1976

Trapline represents a new way of considering film as a vehicle of projected movement. The film is composed entirely of static camera shots.

"Filmed in a London swimming pool, Trapline is a painterly film conveying a state of limbo - the still pool with the light reflecting on the water, the grid of the high glass roof, three figures ... under the shower, ...voices echoing from the pool walls, ... giving one the feeling of being trapped between the unconscious and consciousness." (Tina Keane for Readings, 1977)

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