"An old woman, a toy store, a doll and a little girl." [Program for 1978/79 SFU Student Workshop Films showing, 15 June 1979]

"A surreal look at the human condition of an elevator." [Program for 1978/79 SFU Student Workshop Films showing, 15 June 1979]

Also held by "Moving Images Distribution" in video and 16mm formats: "This work asks the viewer to re-examine the right of the police to harass adults because of their sexual preferences. A careful, precise film which raises the question in a reserved and understated style." 10 min., b/w, 1979 [http://www.movingimages ca/catalogue/Experimental/Experimental_m.html#RTFToC38b]. "Television, washroom sex, and state repression." [Program for 1978/79 SFU Student Workshop Films showing, 15 June 1979]

"An ancient Jewish tale of a prince and a rooster." [Program for 1978/79 SFU Student Workshop Films showing, 15 June 1979]. No answer print for this film as per late July 1979 documentation in general correspondence section of F-232 collection file.

"Stumbling through the last minutes before a nuclear attack‚ " [Russell Stephens, "Move over, Fassbinder," The Peak, 13 June 1979, p. 6]. "What would you do if you woke up to a hangover and incoming Soviet missiles?" [Program for 1978/79 SFU Student Workshop Films showing, 15 June 1979]

Student film workshop?

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.

Film shows the increasing depression of a woman looking for work. She holds the Province newspaper and beside her is a sign indicating how long she has been out of work. Clips of still images spliced together make up the middle of the film. It ends with some disembodied hands cracking eggs with words written on them and then serving them to the woman - this makes her happy.

"A high school student finds out there is no meaning to life." [Program for 1978/79 SFU Student Workshop Films showing, 15 June 1979]

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]

"(15 minutes) 16mm colour comdey, educational film. Ah love, (sigh), A wildly funny look at sex education which can sneakily conspire to involve anyone who dares tackle it!" [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]

"(23 minutes) 16mm colour comedy for film production studies. This film is a must for all young film-makers. Labyrinth is a warm, humorous profile of a young film director as he follows his first film through the intricate processes of a motion picture laboratory." [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]. Won in the "Documentary, ex aequo" cateory at the 10th Canadian Student Film Festival in Montreal in 1978.

"(6 1/2 minutes) 16mm colour educational film. A chldren's film posing moral questions in the Eastern tradition." [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]

"(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]

Autographed poster publicizing the Royal Shakespeare Company residency at SFU in February 1977. Poster autographed by all five cast members: Ben Kingsley, Patrick Stewart, Sheila Allen, Juliet Aykroyd, and Richard Pasco.

"(25 minutes) 16mm colour documentary educational film. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it wothout ado or apology, as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am myself, myself alone.' William James. 'Claws?' is a crab's eye view of his world and our ... " [1977/78 SFU Film Workshop Productions program]