Filmography:
"The Square Root of Negative 3" 1991
Clip 28sec. 4.6m
"The Square Root of Negative 3 " 16mm. Color. 9minutes. 1992
What a crazy film this is, aggressive psychedelic would come to mind, based on combinations and permutation of odd 1960's found footage, the idea was to actually blow your mind. Following a somewhat rigid structure of the Avant Garde Optical experimental American films of the 70's, Pat O'Neill, Paul Sharits. Matching sensoria overload soundtrack by Coil.
"follow the black valley, trail of death, into the beautiful sunshine..."
Special "I've fallen and I can't get up" Award, Humboldt Film Festival 1991. Other key festivals: Ann Arbor, San Francisco, Montreal. Athens, Ohio. Screened at Centre George Pompidou, Paris France. Art Gallery of Ontario. Went also to Holland, Denmark, Italy, Spain, England, Germany and Japan. Screened at Craig Baldwins Other Cinema in San Francisco.
"....makes a bold effort to blow your mind...." "....a film adventure..." The San Francisco Bay Gardian
"....a barrage of intense optical printing...." "....the cinematic equivalent of a psychotropic trip" John Griffin, Montreal Gazette.
North American Distributors other than Filmgrafix : CFMDC, Toronto.
This film was made possible by The Canada Council and was created at The Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco.