Imago Dei is an experimental documentary which paints a haunting portrait of an Eastern Orthodox iconographer exploring what it means to represent the image of an invisible God. It enters the internal world of the artist, Father Theodore Koufos, through an intimate exploration of his approach to producing and experiencing images while contemplating his history and the history of his artistic tradition. Through a slow, meditative cinematic journey of the artist and his work, it is only nearing the end of the film that the magnitude of his images, and the spiritual window they create, are revealed.
Produced with funding by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Official Selections:
* Motivate Underground Film Festival, 2015.
* Belleville Downtown DocFest: International Documentary Film Festival, 2015.
* Depth of Field Series at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 2014.
Street Preacher is a short documentary which introduces Ward Draper, an unorthodox pastor ministering to the poor in suburban Vancouver. Equipped with his own troubled past, Ward goes where others fear to tread. With a dozen or so volunteers, he brings the church to the streets by building community and relationships with those on the edge of society.
Screening:
DOXA-CapU Film Series, 2010.
The short narrative film, Lazarus, tells the story of a young, exhausted mother who feels hunted by a door-to-door evangelist. However, through a fishy turn of events, the evangelist's faith is challenged while the young mother experiences a miracle.
Directed by Adonay Guerrero, The Last Deaths of Joe is short film about Joe, a man acting as an extra in a western film who is killed by a cowboy. However, Joe is struggling to die according to the director's vision. (Nathan Skulstad, Cinematographer.)
Official Selections:
* imagineNATIVE Film+Media Arts Festival, 2014.
* Depth of Field Film Series at the Ontario Art Gallery, 2012.
I Live Here is a short experimental documentary contemplating life, birth, and death in the wake of the news that the world's population reached 7 billion on October 31, 2011.
Created as part of an inter-university documentary project in collaboration with York University, Ryerson University, UQAM, & L'INIS.
Making Sones and Memories, a documentary directed by Adonay Guerrero, is a story about love, music, and immigration. Musician and artist Alec Dempster and his wife, musician and poet Kali Niño, immigrate to Canada bringing their passion for the sones jarochos, which is music from the Varacruz region in Mexico.
(Nathan Skulstad, second camera and editor.)
Best Documentary at the Rodando Film Festival, San Luis Potosi, 2013.
Markus Pukonen, director, attempts to stand-up paddleboard 55 kilometres from Vancouver to Nanaimo, Canada, to raise awareness of how municipal waste is treated in Vancouver.
(Nathan Skulstad, visual effects and editing.)
Official Selection at Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, 2011.
