
05 Jun 1991

Begotten
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
Wormcharmer
An erotic, witty and disturbing film. An intriguing mix of fact and fiction.
Voice Over

05 Jun 1991

Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.

05 May 1978

This highly stylized, critically acclaimed film from the 70's mixes silent film cards, a soundscape, color, opera music and atmosphere to explore the Freudian truths about men's fear of women that Wedekind powerfully exposed. A kinetic melodrama of the rise of a femme-fatale and her fate at the hands of Jack-the-Ripper. Rethinking Pabst's silent film and Alban Berg's opera.

15 Oct 2017

Somewhere between a music-video, a documentary and a fantasy - created with and around a Toronto-based acting-collective called LUSTR.

15 May 2002

CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...

06 Oct 1995

CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward descension despite its resistance to division. The logo for this chapter is the Manx triskelion - three identical armored legs revolving around a central axis. Set on the Isle of Man, the film absorbs the island's folklore ...

24 Feb 1998

A found footage experiment made using an excerpt from the film Taranula! (1955)

01 Apr 1953

A psychiatrist tells two stories: one of a trans woman, the other of a pseudohermaphrodite.


The behaviour of ants, wasps, and other insects as enacted by humans.

03 Mar 1988

Found footage experiment made using footage from a disaster film. A wide array of colours and textures distort and bury the original footage.

04 Mar 1988

A found footage experiment made using old horror footage. There are lovely transitions between colours and textures.

01 Jan 2009

A woman is obsessed with a mysterious black box.

24 Dec 1976

The following films were all made in 1976. I do not wish to describe them. —SB "Two portrait sketches and two nondescript."

13 Nov 2001

A small portrait of the volatility of intimacy and of breaking free from abusive cycles: made in response to a year of collapsing relationships and violent accidents that left me broken, dislocated and stuck in my apartment.

04 Oct 2016

The last woman on Earth: Filmed inside Biosphere 2 in Arizona, Urth forms a cinematic meditation on ambitious experiments, constructed environments and visions of the future. The film considers what an endeavor such as Biosphere 2 might mean today and in the near future, in terms of humankind’s relationship with the natural world.

18 Dec 1987

Degraded found footage of a silent comedy.

10 Feb 1988

Distorted found footage experiment of a firing squad sequence from a war film.

23 May 2017

A manufactured memory.

01 Jan 1978

This portrait of a guinea fowl is the first clear vision I've had of the hot-blooded dinosaurs still living among us. (SB)

01 Jan 1990

This is a film made in Toronto, in memoriam, so to speak - a memory piece, a "piecing-together" of the experience of living there. The consciousness of the maker comes to sharply focused visual music - not to arrive at snapshots, as such, but rather to "sing" the city as remembered from daily living...complementary, then, to an earlier film, "Unconscious London Strata." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

01 Jan 1974

Pun on "light" intended - that short preceding expulsion of breath perhaps the "subject matter" of this film which centers in consideration of death. It is the third tone poem film and did much surprise me by thus completing a trilogy of the "4 classical Elements." (SB)