Buchanan Group
Various Commercial Series
HD & SD Video, 2005-present
Primary DoP for all North (and some South) American commercial series including Brand Power, Zoot Review, MediFacts, 606 Product Networker and Great Chefs.
Spring
Written & Directed by Lynne Kamm
RED, 3min., 2010
Commissioned by CODE the 2010 Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition. A suburban winter-sports enthusiast wages war against an early spring, risking life and limb to maintain her obsessive sub-zero activities.
http://www.lynnekamm.com/film-trailers/spring/
I Love A Luger
Written & Directed by Lynne Kamm
HD, Web Series, 2009
Obsessed with a foreign luge athlete, Nikki is convinced she will marry him at the 2010 Games. She is equally determined to have everything perfect for when he arrives. Much like an athlete trains for competition, we’ll follow Nikki as she emotionally and physically prepares for her inevitable wedding to the iconic and elusive luger. She will do whatever it takes – from learning about the twists and turns of an elite luger’s life, to sabotaging the Canadian Luge team – in order to fulfill her marital dream.
http://www.lynnekamm.com/film-trailers/i-love-a-luger/
Racing Bastards
Developed & Directed by Christy Garland
HD, in-development
A documentary set in the passionate, chaotic world of birdsong “races” in Georgetown, Guyana, Racing Bastards will follow the story of Muscle, the passionate birder at the centre of it all, organizing races, taking bets and competing his own birds.
http://www.murmurfilm.com/RACING_BASTARDS.html
Loudly, Death Unties
Written & Directed by Nicholas & Sheila Pye
HD, 11 min. 2007
A young man and woman’s isolated life is interrupted when a child burrows her way into the back room of their dilapidated shack. Like the wail of a banshee, she begins to play a haunting song to them on her violin, warning them of death. Unable to get into the mysterious room, they become increasingly perplexed and frustrated by her presence. When the woman begins to become unaffected by the forces of gravity, he must decide to heed the banshees call and say goodbye to his lover.
http://www.nickandsheila.com/film/LDU.htm
TIFF Review:
http://twitchfilm.net/news/2007/08/tiff-roundup-short-cuts-canada-block-two.php
Perfect Vehicle
By Simone Jones, co-directed with Wrik Mead
35mm, 6min, 2006
Perfect Vehicle is a machine that is controlled by breathing. Filmed on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah this film is shown installed in conjunction with the actual machine.
A Life of Errors
Written & Directed by Nicholas & Sheila Pye
super16mm, 14min. 2006
In a decrepit three-room house two lovers, played by the filmmakers, fall out of each other's graces and turn bitter enemies without exchanging words. In the theatrical dream world of their sleep, they endeavor to harm each other though a series of childish games which inevitably go too far. Growing increasingly distrustful of one another, these somnambulists become skilled at the unmaking of love.
http://www.nickandsheila.com/film/loe.htm
The Arsonist
Written & Directed by Nicholas & Sheila Pye
super16mm, 13min. 2005
On an isolated farm 8 year old Nicole awakes on a summer morning. In those early moments between waking and rising, she remembers an encounter from last winter with an elderly woman in a snowstorm. Her thoughts, imagination and boredom are satisfied through fire.
http://www.nickandsheila.com/film/arsonist.htm
Locus
Written & Directed by Cliff Caines
35mm, 11min. 2005
A stark parable of a young boy confronted by a horrific event. Locus is a cinematic meditation on the concept of relativity.
http://www.cliffcaines.com/locus.html
Filth
Written & Directed by Wrik Mead
16mm, 4min. 2004
The housecall in “Filth” doesn’t go quite as planned when a simple cleaning job becomes a nightmare. A pixilated tale which combines both the action in the film and the action on the film.
http://www.wrikmead.com/films/filth.html
Cornwall
Written & Directed by Eric Plummer
super16mm 2003
God Bless You Pablo Picasso
Written & Directed by Kyle Martin
super16mm 2003
Die Mütter
Written & Directed by Cliff Caines
super16mm, 35min. 2002
The conjoined Grimm Brothers recount their post-apocalyptic vision of a mother who loses her family to a foul industrialist.
http://www.cliffcaines.com/diemutter.html
