The Nothingness that is Everything
A short film collaboration with Oli Sansom
Just before the Antarctic summer turns to full winter, a global group of women working in STEM agree to go on a leadership expedition to the frozen continent of Antarctica. They go to accelerate their career, to push themselves...they go for adventure and to be inspired....and to stare climate change in the face. Quite by accident, half way through the journey, the on-board photographer and the podcaster-in-residence realize how they can collaborate. But how does one portray the majesty and the beauty of Antarctica, and still showing the importance of caring for our frozen continent?
Screening in Venice, Italy during the Biennale, opening September 28, 2018.
Check out Oil here.
Early Start Discovery Space
A collection of sounds that I recorded while in Antarctica are installed on the Antarctic Research Vessel : An interactive play space for children, at the University of Wollongong, in New South Wales, Australia. Discover the sights and sounds of Antarctica, while pretending to be on a ship. Installation in place from July to December 2018.
International Women's Day 2018 in Antarctica with Homeward Bound
Here is where collaboration starts… From the brainstorming that led to this photo concept, to the ad-hoc organization the day it happened, to later that evening when co-creator and photographer Oli Sansom and I sat together to talk about the day. It was then that I realized the cameras on tripods were recording in time-lapse and the light bulb went off, and I started to match sound and story to tell the story of the image. This was our first, and very accidental, collaboration.
Watch the video here.
Tightrope
Trailer for the Interactive Film
Created in 2000 as a school project at The Canadian Film Centre, the goal was to push storytelling to new limits. The story takes place up on the wire, in the heard of legendary tightrope walker Karl Wallenda, on his fateful last walk in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
This interactive film was created well before its time, now described as a film for the iPad, made 10 years too early. In this story, you are required to balance your way through the story (then using the arrow keys of the Mac G4).
This project was publicly launched in Austin, Texas at SXSW Interactive in 2000, and then showed in Amsterdam at IDFA and at Hot Docs International Film Festival in Toronto.
Somnabulism
An Interactive Film Prototype
Somnambulism is a psychological thriller based on the true story of Kenneth Parks, a man who committed a murder while sleepwalking, but was acquitted in court, based on the evidence that he was in a somnabulistic state - he was sleepwalking.
This interactive film puts you inside the head of a sleepwalker.
It’s a story full of questions, a whodunit in which the perpetrator is you. Somnambulism is a film, except, in this film, you are the main character.
Created as a prototype in 2003, a collaboration between Tightrope Entertainment, Canadian Film Centre and Microsoft Xbox 360 LIVE. Also funded by Telefilm.
The Mantelpiece
A short film about taxidermy. A whole new way of looking at migration.
Director: Geoffrey Siskind. Producer: Samantha Hodder. A Tightrope Entertainment Film. Copyright 2004. Premiered at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, 2005. Broadcast on TVOntario.
Watch the film here.
This is not a colouring book.
It's a story book. A possibilities book.
And an adventure book.It's a letter-tracing, star-counting, find-things-on-a-map book. A stuff-it-in-your-backpack book. A hide-it-so-your-sister-won't-steal it book. A bit of inspiration on a rainy day, or a gift for a friend on a snow day. It's whatever you want it to be, but mostly it's just 54 black-and-white pages waiting to be un-black-and-white-ed.
Writer and Producer. Illustrations by Mary Soroka.
