Sand Underfoot
Seven minute short improvised film and experiment in low-tech to accompany the improvised music of the same name.  Filmed in the Laurentians using a digital still camera.  Published on the new cd, Sand Underfoot, featuring poetry by Jeannette and special guest Paul Bley on piano,  2006.

Midwinter Ballad
A short digital video for the collaborative digital cinema experiment, Story Streams. Three films with a shared narrative are created in three cities, Montreal, Paris, and Mexico City and mixed live online to create a fourth film. Themes of urban alienation, rites of passage, city as body, are all explored in Midwinter Ballad. Produced by Nora Barry, Screen Arts Media. Broadband version.

where are you from? d'où viens-tu?
Web cinema that explores themes of identity, memory, geography and heredity. Autobiographical films are interwoven with orginal poetry, music and animation as a response to the question of the title. Awarded funding from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.

Salome
Shockwave animation based on the hypertext project, "Salome Goes to SoHo to See Her Poster in a Show". As the themes of metamorphosis, female identity and veils emerged , the title of Salome was chosen, with all its connotations and symbolism.

    Screening
    - Selected for gender[f], online exhibition of artworks by women, dedicated to the disappeared women of Juarez, October 2004.

    - Selected at Streaming Cine 2.0, internet film festival to tour Denmark, Austria, France and the U.S., June 2001.


Lone Jack Pine
Experimental digital video short combining jazz, art and poetry.

    Screening
    - ZeD, national t.v. broadcast, January 2003.
    - Seoul Net Festival, Seoul, Korea, November 2001.


As Saturn Sweeps Past
An electronic poem/slideshow. Autobiographical hand-coloured photos and a stream of consciousness poem are integrated through the use of Flash animation. The passage of Saturn causes one to pause and look back, while the images sweep ahead in cyberspace.

    Screening
    - Featured at Adobe Online in November, 2000.
    - Screened on digital media website, 120seconds.com, 2001.
    - ZeD, national t.v. broadcast, March 2003.


Sunset on St-Viateur
This project uses streaming video, poetry, and hypertext to celebrate urban energy. Filmed in Montreal, summer of 1999. This project was awarded financial assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts, New Media and Audio Artists Program.



Givre (frost)
A short internet film evoking the silent films from the beginning of the last century, based around the jazz song of the same name. Shot in black and white Super 8 film in the picturesque small village of St. Michel de Bellechase along the St. Lawrence River. Broadband version.

    Screenings
    - ZeD, national t.v. broadcast, February, 2003 and March 2004.
    - Presented by Nora Barry, DruidMedia, at the net.congestion festival in Amsterdam, October, 2000.
    - Featured on digital cinema website The Bit Screen in June, 2000. - Selected for "Streaming Cinema" at the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema in May, 2000. Scheduled for Streaming Festival in Seoul, Korea.

Recoil
A musical/hypertext project, with animation, javascript and streaming Real Audio.

    Exhibition/publication
    - trAce , international online writing community, Nottingham, U.K.
    International anthology, addressing time and digital revolution
    "'My' Millenium", July 1999.

One Night in Greenwich Village
With original graphics, javascript and streaming Real Audio sounds recorded in New York, May 1998.


Emerging From Erasure
Created in collaboration with Raquel Rivera. A blank page reveals our tempestuous relationship with technology.

Mining Reflections
Created in collaboration with Raquel Rivera. Reflections on traded images.

Sketches on a Napkin
Fifth in a series of web art projects created with Raquel Rivera, constructed entirely in cyberspace. This project is based on concepts of surrealism and automatism.

In My Hysterical Opinion
Book and compact disc review website, created in collaboration with Raquel Rivera, updated monthly.



VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Online stock photography and video portfolio:
Istockphoto

Exhibition: digital photography
Digital photography for Parisian section of Operation [Interface], an online exhibition of architecture and digital photography, mirroring the cities of Paris and Montreal.

- Part of the festival Printemps du Québec en France, June 1999.
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Institut français d’architecture

WEB SITES

The Dame Domain
Website for a portal for women of un certain age.

Michael Chambers Photography
Website and flash animation for photographer Michael Chambers.

Game-Film
Web site and flash animation for the Game-Film project, an interactive game that results in a short streamed film.   The first of these, Descent to the Underworld, linked 8 universities worldwide in a mulit-point, multi-national production studio.

Streaming Cinema 3.0
Web site and flash animation for the festival held in Philadelphia, February 2003.

The Bit Screen
Web site and flash animation for the online cinema website.

Jazz from Rant
Web site for jazz musicians, with sound files, photos, biographies, catalogue of compact discs and electronic press kits.

Jazz Grrls
Web site for women in jazz, as well as a mailing list for the female jazz community.

High Traffic Marketing Institute
Web site and animation with newsletters and bulletins updated monthly.

Car Seat Safety, Flash animation
Edited and animated four interactive videos on car seat safety, a total of 16 minutes, for Druid Media.

Quilts Annette Françoise
Web site for quilt artist Annette Françoise, including images, artist statement and thoughts on fibre.

A Holiday Minute
A short internet film for the holiday season, produced for the Bit Screen/Druid Media, December 2000.

Agatha Schwager: Painting and Photography
Web site for visual artist Agatha Schwager.

Desert Safaris by Desert Fox, website for a Bedouin guide in the Bahariya Oasis, Egypt.

Web sites for musicians Fréderic Alarie, Michel Lambert, and others.


ARTICLES

Womenspace.ca, First prize, Tapestries, Herstory contest, 2002

The Australian, review of d>art 00 festival, June 22-28 2000

n.paradoxa, volume 3 1999

Bee Hive, Hypertext Hypermedia Literary Journal, Vol. 1 #2

Clin d'Oeil, novembre 1998

CIAC, Magazine électronique du Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal

Shift Online, 1997

My most popular images for sale at Shutterstock:

CONTACT
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