The Thaw

2 channel HD Video installation • 20:50 minutes • 2015

Starring the wintry white prairie of rural Manitoba in late winter. White animals populate the scenes and appear both as masked actors and live animals. They come out of hiding to hunt, losing their camouflage and turning to ghosts in skull-littered fields.

Filmed in residence at The Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba in Brandon. Soundtrack by Keri Latimer.

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The Rock and the True Believers

HD Video • 23:49 minutes • 2015

Shot in Newfoundland, known as "The Rock" to Newfoundlanders, and filled with supernatural notes - trees shimmers, rocks emit light, mummers appear like ghosts, northern lights shine, and iceberg mirages vanish. The images are lulled by the tune of a sea shanty, composed by Keri Latimer in a "call and response" style.

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Spirit

HD Video • 12:30 minutes • 2013

A line of fog creeps across wintry landscapes, hinting at a haunting presence.

Filmed in residence at The Glenfiddich International Artists' Residency in Scotland. Soundtrack by Keri Latimer.

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Valley of the Deer

HD Video (48:30 minutes) and 3-channel video installation (21:35 minutes) • 2013

Filmed across northern Scotland, featuring masked predators and prey in a hunting narrative that is based on local folklore.

Filmed in residence at The Glenfiddich International Artists' Residency in Scotland. Soundtrack by Knocker.

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Something Wicked (This Way Comes)

HD Video • 6:25 minutes • 2012

Festival flags, strung from a town's stone clocktower, and fluttering in the wind, suggest a foreboding presence.

Filmed in residence at The Glenfiddich International Artists' Residency in Scotland.

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Hunger

3-channel video • 2011

Trespassing digitally into TV and film scenes from Twilight (New Moon), True Blood, and Being Human, I have three staring contests with Edward, Bill, and Mitchell - the leading male vampires. These are the new breed vampires of our dreams - insatiable, beautiful, charming, yet dangerous. No one wins and no one loses.

Commissioned and curated by Kate Armstrong and Malcolm Levy for the Electric Speed Marshall McLuhan Commission.
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Field of the Dead and Undead

high definition video • 18:30 minutes • 2011

Actors enter a foggy field one by one, die, then stagger off, undead. Meanwhile others haunt the gloomy field in the background and foreground. The actors were all given a simple instruction, filmed separately, and composited together (a process that took three years to complete) in order to lend their appearances an other-worldly quality.

Filmed on location at Golden Gate National Park, California while in residence at The Headlands Center for the Arts. • Costumes by A.M. Richard • Soundtrack composed by Knocker, arranged by Knocker and Jillian Mcdonald.

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RedRum

high definition video • 7:44 minutes • 2010

Its title a reference to The Shining where a boy predicts "redrum" (murder) before a hotel elevator bursts with blood and all hell breaks loose, this video has a haunted horror theme. The scenes take us through a cavernous home where blood - a predominant prop in horror films - drips from faucets, runs down mirrors, and pools on stairs. This blood appears disembodied until the camera slowly reveals its haunted source, visiting neighbouring houses that also drip with blood, suggesting a murderous streak. RedRum, filmed on location in Buffalo, NY in late 2009, features local teenagers, Buffalo homes, and The Buffalo Soundpainting Ensemble.

Filmed in residence at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.

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Alone Together in the Dark

high definition video installation • 2009

Two videos projected on opposite walls feature zombies and vampires in a Wild West showdown at dawn in the desert. Surrounding the videos are floor-to-ceiling photographic murals that wrap the gallery in local desert imagery: cacti, mountain, rugged terrain, contemporary ghost towns, and graveyards. Freestanding photographic cacti rattle dryly via tiny speakers.

Filmed in residence at ASU Art Museum with a cast of locals in Tempe, Arizona, including 50 actors, 4 videographers, 1 documentary photographer, 10 make-up artists, and 1 sound designer.
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Staring Contest with Brad Pitt

video • 1:30 minutes (loop) • 2008

I insert my image digitally into a scene from Meet Joe Black, caught in a endless staring contest with actor Brad Pitt which no one wins and no one loses.

Superfan

video • 2008

Superfan features the artist, trespassing digitally into scenes from Hollywood films. She rides in vehicles with costars Billy Bob Thornton and Donald Sutherland, but despite their attempts at conversation, the trio of male leads cannot shake her concentration on the game, that is, the final minutes of a Superbowl game radio broadcast.

Commissioned by Art Engine (Canada).

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The Screaming

video • 11 minutes • 2007

I trespass digitally into existing horror films scenes. Uttering a scream on cue with the startling action, but rather than screaming in helpless horror, I scream to scare the monsters away, or even destroy them. (pictured - screaming in Hallowe'en)
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Screen Kiss

Video and website 2005.

• Created with support from Soil Digital Media in Regina
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