Films
- Into Summer
- 5 minutes, Video
- Painting with light, this film is a visual poem that wanders into the realm
of optimism. Among the optimism reside the poignant common moments of
everyday life. Recipient of a BC Institute Of Technology 'Panasonic Video
Award', 2005.Play Film »
- Turning the Horses Head
- 10 minutes, 16mm experimental film
- This oddly beautiful film pulls the viewer onto its spine and carries them
through a tactile experience of light and emotion. A tantalizingly quixotic
film, this piece is composed of layers of resin, flower petals, horses,
glue, hair, pencil shavings, jazz, butoh, cowboys, ink and leaves.
Turning The Horse's Head was jury selected and screened in the Dawson City
International Short Film Festival - "Out of the Ordinary: Films Without
Boundaries" 2002.Play Film »
- Inciting the Dogs to Chase
- 8 minute, 16mm experimental film
- This film deals with concepts of violence and aggression throughout human
history. The film approaches the idea that violence has evolved beyond human
interaction, into the relationship between nature and human, environmental
degradation and decomposition of personal, ecological and community ethics.
This film is rich in symbolism, including references to Macbeth and the
washing of blood from hands.
The soundtrack is composed using degenerated
human voice. Gem Salsberg calls this limb of her filmmaking process
"sculptural imagery". Looking at the film's actual surface, you would see
that there are many physical layers to the piece. The surface includes a
platform of discarded films, found footage and computer generated imagery
using self portraits hand-coloured and electronically processed onto clear
plastic vellum, then meticulously sliced into strips of film-sized frames
and spliced onto the actual body of the film.Play Film »
