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Programmed Response

Also held by "Moving Images Distribution" in 16mm format: "Programmed Response deals with elements of the urban environment that condition our responses. It focuses on the idea of Pavlovian conditioning and repetition - the repetition of street lights and bus door mechanisms, as well as aspects of media culture, such as classical narrative film, that program responses." 8 min., 1978 [http://www.movingimages.ca/catalogue/Experimental/Experimental_i.html#RTFToC31a]

Place

According to Tony Giacinti, the filmmaker, the opening scenes of "Place" show footage of Robson Street (between Burrard and Thurlow) in the midst of being torn apart to make way for commercialization. Giacinti lived in the "Manhattan" apartment at the time. It was an experimental film, as influenced by the experimental filmmakers then teaching the workshop (e.g., Al Razutis). The film won in the "Experimental" category at the 11th Canadian Student Film Festival in Montreal in 1979.

A review of the film stated that "'Place' develops its own language of experimental editing and sound manipulations in order to explore the personna [sic] of an apartment block. In Tony's film objects and people, moving unseeing to each other in space and time, are brought together to create a strange statement about our perception of an observable reality." (Russell Stephens, "Move over, Fassbinder," The Peak, 13 June 1979, p. 7). The film was described as "Man and his Mask; the persona of the place in which we live" in the program for the 1978/79 SFU Student Workshop Films showing on 15 June 1979.

Passage

"A delightful cartoon from John Pill. … a bouncy rhythmic 3 minutes of abstract animation that alternates an active collection of purple pills with speeded up shots of running water and billowing clouds, a visual combination that actually manages to leave the viewer euphoric." [Michael Walsh, "Student film mood: Calmness supplants revolution," ca. 1973 article]; "(Filmmaker’s first animated film, shot in Reversal Negative B & W.) The film is based on some verses by KABIR (1398-1518), the poet-saint who lived in the East." [Spring Arts Festival, March 11-April 8, S.F.U. Film Workshop Productions 1973, program]

One in a Million

"(12 minutes) 16mm comedy-drama, educational film. One man's addiction to the awesome frustrations of the lottery‚ a mania sweeping Canada in the 70's." [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]

Once Upon A Climb

"A serious discussion of climbing with a contrast of climbing as it used to be with the challenges and possibilities provided by modern equipment. The film uses the vehicle of a morning conversation between two climbers in their tent which is perched on the side of a cliff" [Handwritten notes (author unknown), 21 May 1975, in arrangement & description section of F-232 collection file]

Old Fashioned Style

"(8 minutes) 16mm colour documentary. One job‚ one man, who has been happy for thirty-five years making peanut butter‚ "the best‚ (no additives)!" [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]. Only one element (noted as work print, but no splices so likely final). Miscellaneous note: "Woodward Stores Ltd."

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