[updated Sept 6, 2023] Billionaires Gnaw Their Tongues From The Pain (Lost Leaders #22) is a new handmade...
ASANASA (niagain)
UPDATED: My short film ASANASA (aka Lost Leaders #21) from 2019 has done very well on the festival...
Fantasia Film Festival 2020
I am truly thrilled to announce that my short film ASANASA (2019) is an official selection in the...
ASANASA (2019)
ASANASA is the final film in my Lost Leaders trilogy. (And in the suitably confusing style of NASA...
LOVE LEADERS (2018)
This newish short is best described as a brief, affectionate exploration of the aesthetics of ‘countdown’ leaders, focusing...
The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence
I’m delighted to have a chapter in Mark J. P. Wolf’s new edited collection The Routledge Companion to Media...
ATypI 2017 (Montreal)
I’m very grateful to the organizers of ATypI 2017 , especially Professor Alessandro Colizzi (UQAM) for the opportunity...
NASA Film Leader
Margaret Compton (archivist, Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection) continues to be a great supporter...
The Beginnings and the Ends of Film (The Moving Image, Fall 2016)
I’m delighted to report that my article ‘The Beginnings and the Ends of Film: Leader Standardization in the...
Academy / Society / Universal: 3 Handwritten Leader Standards (2016)
This direct animation, a major outcome of my Lost Leaders project, foregrounds the most ephemeral handwritten traces of...
Spring 2017 Update
As I write, it’s actually -20C in sunny Montréal, but let’s call it Spring anyway. sigh For...
Talk: Orphans X (Culpeper VA 2016)
The 10th Orphan Film Symposium was held at the Packard campus of the Library of Congress, April 6-9, 2016....
Lost Leaders #18 ‘Handwritten Universal (PH22.55-1966)’
This is the first in a planned series of three or four (very) short ‘handwritten’ films created as...
Handweaving (short film) – back to the beginning
Lost Leaders #1 was created by weaving together thinly cut strips of found footage into other, unrelated pieces,...
Society Leader (lightpainting and 3D)
My residency at the Banff Centre in October 2014 gave me an invaluable opportunity to start working with...
Lost Leaders #15-17 (stained glass)
In early 2014 I decided to try my hand at stained glass. I had already spent a couple...
Talk: Orphans 9 (Amsterdam 2014)
I recently had the very great pleasure of speaking at the 9th Orphan Film Symposium, held at the...
Lost Leaders #14 (interactive)
Above is a snapshot of a Korsakow sketch film I prepared specifically for the Orphan Film Symposium in...
Artist’s talk: Counterpath, Denver
On March 1, 2014, I gave my first ever public talk about Lost Leaders to a small but...
Lost Leaders #13 ‘some things can’t be erased’ (stopmotion Vine)
Lost Leaders #12 ‘you want to forget’ (stopmotion Vine, ns)
Lost Leaders #11 ‘Orange Throb’ (short film)
Lost Leaders #10 ‘Lozenge’ (short film)
This is the third in a series of meanderings across the surface of film, with audio accompaniment by...
Lost Leaders #9 (short film, ns)
Seventy-two still-image compositions, combining found footage and leader graphics (no sound). Created at a cameraless filmmaking workshop at...
Lost Leaders #8 (short film)
This is the second in a series of short excursions across the surface of film, with musical accompaniment...
Lost Leaders #7 (short film)
Layers of 35mm found footage being passed under a digital microscope. (Extreme close-up of handwriting on movie trailer...
Lost Leaders #6 (stills)
Lost Leaders #5 (interactive)
Working with video as a field of thumbnail-size compositions, each with sound. WATCH/PLAY: Lost Leaders #5 (Korsakow) NB...
Lost Leaders #4 (interactive)
A more refined film, incorporating some elements from LL#2, but with more material, six videos sequences, and a...
Lost Leaders #3 (short film)
AKA ‘Baby Deer’. The text is appropriated from a movie trailer, re-animated using stopmotion and a microscope, then...
Lost Leaders #2 (interactive)
First attempt at a Korsakow (ie interactive) film incorporating some of the lightbox stills combined into video previews,...
Lightbox Session #3 (stills)
Found footage: 35mm commercial leaders taken from movie trailers bought on eBay. Experiments with layering, colour and composition....
Lightbox Session #2 (stills)
Found footage: 35mm commercial leaders taken from movie trailers bought on eBay. Experiments with layering, colour and composition....
Lightbox Session #1 (stills)
Found footage: 35mm commercial leaders taken from movie trailers bought on eBay. Experiments with layering, colour and composition....
Lost Leaders #1 (short film)
Lost Leaders #1 (16mm to digital, 50 secs). Found footage, hand-woven together. Created during the Independent Imaging Retreat,...