Devan Scott

Grounds, Premises takes the opening scene of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space to consider intention and failure. What emerges is a treatise on the creative process with the emphasis on process rather than result. This film was made while teaching a film production course at a castle in the South of the Netherlands, and is dedicated to our fleeting time together.

When the Biblical Armageddon occurs, Cain Tibbons is sent to heaven, and his brother to hell; he must rescue his brother.

ingerence: Unwanted involvement, interruption, or meddling in the internal affairs of another person, entity, or sovereign nation.

A graduate researcher monitoring wildlife cameras notices a garbage bag suddenly appear in a forest clearing. She sends her senior technician to check it out--watching his every move through the live camera feed.

A young woman grapples with the declining health of her beloved dog in this film about mortality, cloning, and Barbra Streisand.

After a woman is abandoned by her boyfriend in the forest, she befriends a couple and gradually realizes they are a pair of notorious bank robbers on the run from the law.

A box of stunning family photos awakens grief and lost memories as they are viewed for the first time on camera.

When two long-time friends call each other over Skype to continue their annual Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins together, they swap stories of negative encounters with men, both first- and secondhand, in this frank window into the pervasive nature of gender inequality.

A young woman investigates her neighbour and his wildly boring running route.

Calling her grandfather in Budapest to learn about the Hungarian film industry, a woman instead finds the conversation shifting to her family’s history.

Two people get lost on their way to a haunted bowling alley.

An anthology film shaped by six people who share their desires and imagination. Each part works towards a whole which is concerned with perception and being perceived.

A portrait of 10 senior dogs and their owners who struggle with the thought of letting go.

When the world pandemic strikes, forty-something Teresa must overcome her fear of dying and decide if she wants to have a child conceived as a single mother through artificial insemination.

A portrait of a young woman providing companionship for juxtaposing demographics.

A true-crime documentary crew interviews various people intimate to a shocking murder as the behind the scenes production unravels into the absurd.

An unexpected encounter during an afternoon at the cinema catapults a young woman into a confrontation with her own grief, her parents’ pain, and the still raw wound of her missing older brother.

A film about the choices we make and the chances we take. From grief and abjection to bliss and communion, it takes us through one day in the lives of two gay men.

In the near future, a teenage girl attends a virtual reality high school.

As the spring thaw approaches in Saskatchewan, a young beekeeper struggles to maintain his bee colonies.

A man becomes engrossed in an audiobook while walking home on a summer night.

A man obsessed with motivational and right wing culture war videos goes on a hollow road trip of discovery.

In 1981, a young girl spends a day at the fire station with her mother, the only female firefighter on the force, and witnesses what a typical day of work looks like, for better and for worse.

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected, politically uncertain modern world while on a trip to a remote Canadian island in this avant-garde feature film. PREFACE TO A HISTORY, created with a tiny crew of four people, represents an experiment in using minimalist tools to create an overwhelming aesthetic experience in service of a simple, but specifically contemporary, story about two people attempting to navigate a fraying relationship amid all the anxieties and external pressures of modern adulthood in a technologically-interconnected and politically unstable era.