Movies: Nik Forrest

  • 1997
    SHIFT

    SHIFT (1997)

    SHIFT

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    SHIFT explores the loss associated with movement from one place to another and the loss associated with an intimate experience of death. Death deconstructs. Things fall apart including the sense of a unified self. Ideas of continuity and stability ar...

    SHIFT
  • 1994
    Emission

    Emission (1994)

    Emission

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    Human beings define themselves in opposition to both nature and technology. Emission attempts to confound any simplistic analysis of these worn-out dualities. The video comprises eight episodes that are grouped into three acts. The first addresses te...

    Emission
  • 2006
    Nocturne: Contemporary Video at Night

    Nocturne: Contemporary Video at Night (2006)

    Nocturne: Contemporary Video at Night

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    The 10 new and retooled silent video works presented here are each director's response to a silent and nocturnal viewing situation. They are short, eclectic and remarkably diverse, representing a glimpse of contemporary Canadian video art....

    Nocturne: Contemporary Video at Night
  • 1999
    Stravaig / Errance

    Stravaig / Errance (1999)

    Stravaig / Errance

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    An experimental portrait of a place, Scotland. You are looking for something. What you find is something else. "Stravaig / Errance" (Gaelic for wandering) is techno tourism of a personal nature. Forrest visits a Scotland that only she may show us. Th...

    Stravaig / Errance