Directing
An experimental documentary, made up of shots of historic events appertaining to the relationship between Japan and the United States.
Looks at a 19th-century romance through the courtship letters of a suitor.
This short film brings together animated interpretations of 4 poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: “From the Hazel Bough” by Earle Birney, “Travellers Palm” by P.K. Page, “Death by Streetcar” by Raymond Souster, and “A Said Poem” by John Robert Colombo.
Based on a correspondence with a gay friend in the 1960s, this collage film is a portrait of a person and a decade. Against a montage of found images, the narrator comments on life, love, and the American Dream.
A freewheeling cinematic experience, this film is the work of two filmmakers who relate their perceptions of each other through their respective animation techniques. Images and words are paired in startling associations. Each does a visual portrait of the other, based on characteristic gestures and impressions. A combination of techniques and materials produces a film of rich visual texture shaped by the hands and heads of two very different people.
Based on the novel by Ian Adams, a film-noir treatment of a man's doppelganger obsession.
Traces the evolution of Canada’s system of taxation.
This vignette illustrates the variety of professions, people and technical procedures required by the filmmaking process.
A film about lingering emotional memories.
In 1994, Caroline Leaf accepted the Sir Allen Sewell Fellowship to give a series of studio workshops and lectures to animation students at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in Brisbane. In this film she talks about her work and demonstrates such techniques as sand animation, paint and cut-out animation and scratch animation.
