Essays

Waves intro (June 2023)

Post-Capitalism by Silvia Federici (May 2020)

The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland (May 2020)

We don’t have bodies yet: Paul B Preciado (Jan 2020)

Collage and Fear (Nov 2019)

Only a Question: Power, Education, Cinema (Nov 2019)

Shorts and Shortages (Sept 2019)

Organizing Light (Sept 2019)

The Screen Touches Back (Sept 2019)

Benefit of the Doubt: Rotterdam Shorts (February 2019)

Niagara Falls of Fear (October 2018)

The Right Question (June 2018)

The Invention of Us (Jan 2018)

Vanishing Worlds (Oct 2017)

Fats Waller and me (Sept 2017)

Notes for Rehearsals (Spring 2016)

Stamped from the Beginning (August 2017)

Jorge Lozano (Aug 2017)

27 thoughts about my Dad (June 2017)

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (April 2017)

100 Canadian Movies (April 2017)

Fifteen (April 2017)

Governor General Award Speech (March 2017)

Throwing the Body (December 2016)

Artist-run centres (Sept. 2016)

Making a Name (June 2015)

Scriptwriting or what do I love? (November 2015)

Archive (March 2015)

Mediawave Festival (January 2015)

Hands Up Don’t Shoot (November 2014)

Research 2 (October 2014)

Becoming a Question (October 2014)

Infection as Practice (January 2014)

Collaboration (November 2013)

Becoming a script (2013)

I am Shithead (2013)

Research (2012)

Ann Arbor Film Festival: Mask, Garbage, Sangha (2012)

Lost (March 2012)

The Three Bells (March 2012)

Occupy Friendship November 2011

Why Do I Make Films? (2011)

Music of Silence (2011)

White Noise (2010)

Colin (2010)

Love and Work (2010)

Opus Bonum Jury (2010)

Will It Float? (2010)

Notes on Attention, Projection, Foreplay and the Second Encounter (2010)

Bell Award Presentation (Gladstone Hotel, June 18, 2010)

Longing for the Invisible (2009)

Invisible Pictures (2009)

Opening the Door (2009)

Showing Pictures (with Yann Beauvais) (2008)

London Foreword (March 2008)

Marking (2008)

Light Cone letter (2007)

What is the situation of experimental film today? (2007)

Images Festival (2007)

White Like Me (2007)

My Best Friend is not a Documentary (2006)

Stealing Pictures by Mike Hoolboom (2006)

Complaints (2005)

Viva Vila (2004)

Second Chances (2003)

Love Rigorous (2003)

This Year it’s all about Money (2002)

Cinema and Video: Cain and Abel (2001)

Landscapes of Resistance (March 2017)

Toronto Arts Awards Speech (1999)

The Festival That Ate My Brain (1997)

Nine Thoughts on Short Films (1995)

Canada-US Film Relations (1994)

ABCs of the Canon (1993)

My Life in the Groin of the Crypt (1993)