Mediatheque

Found footage, sci-fi. Statement: Children are living science fiction.

An homage to the disappearing ritual of film projection. Technologies of past and present collide, make love, and salute each other as the digital replaces the mechanical.

Summertime in Ottawa and Gatineau a few years ago... Statement: I place this in my home movie category. We shot some super 8 film over the summer of '98.

"In Motion" is a short experimental video about the pace of life.

A spoof on the infomercial genre, including an original product and a loveable sales pitch.

The theme of beauty pageants as my subject for the Public Domain project came about through several search tangents. I kept coming back to the idea of missing women, of women lost in the archive.

A controversial book with a really, really violent scene is being made into a movie. A guy is having problems because it’s raining in his apartment.

I take the phone off the hook. The answering machine takes the incoming messages. I'm taking a bath with my rubber ducky. I decompress. I'm in my own bubble.

"Jeux" is composed of eight vignettes, in which performers Véronique Guitard and Hugo Gaudet-Dion reinvent the domestic environment in different playful scenarios, culminating in a sequence shot at

"Jipuktewik Sipu, River of Fire" features the Micmac storyteller, artist, and musician, Michael W. Francis.

This docu-drama explores the work and life of Jon Fredericks, a performance artist who grapples with life and art.

One of the many kids you see on the streets. Getting into trouble, getting out of it. Josh had a couple of things to say.

"Kanata Flag Day" is a video that is part of the Kanata Project.

A collaboration between Chris Mullington (videographer/director) and Richard Nigro (writer/producer).

Le fait de capter des images et des sons d'insectes pour illustrer des analogies sonores humains / non-humains amène à considérer l'unité profonde des êtres qui transparaît ici via la manipulation

Une tranche de vie chez les bete de lat terre. Le mot microbe vient du grec <<mikrobios>> qui veut dire: dont la vie est courte.

When a young black urbanite finds herself transplanted to an isolated old farmhouse in rural Canada she is greeted with fear and anger.

A twisted and paradoxical look at seduction. This video contains a Fellini film sequence featuring delirious bare-breasted prostitutes. It is not at all for kids.

An innocent couple is pulled into Riley's world of alcoholic mayhem. Chock full of larfs. Satement: A video that makes people think that Riley thinks she is Jesus Christ.

A year in the garden.

A paradoxical look at charming and not-so charming men.

A deconstruction of the drag show with emphasis on women as archetype and icon.

A series of formal, symbolic, and atmospheric images form the narrative and create a dialogue on memory of place and meditation.

A cast of all women participate in a fairytale. The princess divinity is dead and only her love can save her. After a quest, the prince talks to a wizard for a cure.

Images of the Canadian industrial landscape melt into one another. Materials are processed and reprocessed through real-time digital tools and meticulously animated sequences.

Taking up our time by bothering the public. Statement: Free gear, cheap time.

A day in the life of a group of men, woman, and youths, who called their home a heater grate located under a bridge just blocks from Parliament Hill.

"Lifelines" is a digital video depicting a protagonist's moment of transition - in walking away from the abusive confines of one life and starting a new one filled with both promise and uncertainty

Footage shot from my doorstep of the tip of the Twin Towers burning slides behind large poppies which rise to cover them.

Based on beautiful wildlife footage shot over a period of more than a year, this video brings the life of the graceful white-tailed deer onto the screen.

Originally set to epic music by Hollywood composer Jerry Goldsmith, this now silent drama is one of Adornato's first self-produced videos.

A video about resistance and letting go, with metaphorical references to time, culture, place, and positioning.

A collaboration between Chris Mullington (videographer/director) and Richard Nigro (writer/producer). Louise, a prostitute, has murdered Eddy, her 15-year-old lover.

A man discusses the finer points of infestation with his parasite while making a soup & sandwich. Statement: Minimalist, maximalist style, maximalist dialogue.

This is a trailer of a long-term, muti-segment series of shorts that are still in production today!

Trance DJ music with East Indian influences. The air-conditiong in a hotel is down. Bugs are in the system.

"Marshlands" is a short poetic video about marshes and waiting for the train.

An intimate look at Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapointe's work, and more specifically Materia Prima, a project for the abandon garden of an historical landmark in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

An ongoing series of short videos where I have inserted my own footage into scenes from Billy Bob Thornton movies, where he (and I) exchange glances, winks, smiles, tears, and even a kiss.

Ingredients: One mother, archives, and some fur.

"Mi'kmwesu" is an experimental music video on the elusive world of the mythical Mi'kmwesu, a trickster figure in Mi'kmwesu cosmology.

Watch as people admit mistakes to strangers.

Using the plainness of Mr.

In 1998, for the first time as an adult, I traveled to my birthplace of my parents in Portugal.

Upon graduating, a group of friends flounder in the limbo of time between high school and real life.