ransom notes 35mm, colour, optical sound, 5 min., 2011.
Kelly Egan (Canada)

“We have your …” The ransom note, in our collective imagination, is an interesting entry point to the politics of ownership, freedom and exchange value, made by transforming mass media (newspapers) content into a personal message – the re-appropriation of language and meaning through the act of collage. Ransom Notes explores this strange tension as a means of sorting out the filmmaker’s experience of the hijacking of her city during the Toronto G20 Summit and subsequent riots of June 2010. The film combines new and old media (film, newsprint, print-outs of twitter feeds), exploring social mobilization through mass media, culminating through the structure of a “waltz.” The soundtrack of the film is composed by placing letters, words and sentences directly on the optical soundtrack – in a sense the projector is “reading” the words, and the sound that you hear is the language produced by the cinematic machine.

memento mori
dan browne, 2012
HDV | 28'00"

A meditation on (im)mortality, mediated by a lifetime of images.

"A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face." - J.L. Borges

Exhibitions:
"The Memory Palace", WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, MB - Sept. 28th, 2012. *Jury Prize - Best Canadian Work*
"Superimposition" with Stephen Broomer, IMA Gallery, Toronto, Jan. 9th - Feb. 2nd, 2013. (extended version installation)
"Motion Pictures", International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands, Jan. 25th & 27th, 2013.
"Experimental Landscapes," Athens International Film + Video Festival, Ohio - April 15th, 2013. *First Prize - Experimental*
"Before Our Eyes," Images Festival, Toronto, ON - April 18th, 2013. *Jury Prize - Deluxe Cinematic Vision Award*
"Experimente: Granular Cocktail," Filmfest Dresden, Dresden, Germany - April 18th & 20th, 2013.
"Transmission Attempts," European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany - April 24-28th, 2013.
HASTAC 2013: The Storm of Progress, conference at York University, Toronto - April 27th, 2013.
"Memories are Made of This," Art Cinema OFFoff, Gent, Belgium - April 29th, 2013.
A/Visions 1, MUTEK, Monument National, Montréal, QC - May 29th, 2013. World Premiere Live audio-visual Performance

mementomorifilm.com

Letting Go is a merger of apparent opposites: the high culture of virtuosic violin playing with the casual recreation of fly fishing.

The video was shot on a walk at Sauble Falls Conservation Area on the Bruce Peninsula. The music is Brahms' Violin Concerto, filtered lovingly through my own aimless algorithms.

An image of the body on film conversing with the same body in a real-time performance. The filmed body is manipulated in a photogram process, being twisted, turned, and layered upon itself in a way that the physical body cannot be. The movement phrase is seen most clearly in its three-dimensional form, in the body of the performer present in the room, dancing a duet with her shadow on the screen. So the film become a shadow, the memory of the reality of the present body — stuck in time. And yet time’s constant forward motion stays in the forefront with the shimmering and shifting of frames within frames — a constant push and pull between movement and stasis.

transparent “c” 3minutes, 16mm, Colour, Sound, 2005
Kelly Egan (Canada)

transparent “c” is a formal investigation into the structure of language and meaning. Not only does transparent “c” break down the language structure to the basic common denominators, but it also flushes out the direct correlation between sound and image in my work. transparent “c” demonstrates the range of the sonic palette in animated sound through the mechanical performance of the projector optically reading the alphabet.