Isiah Medina

Processed with conventional photo chemicals and the following flowers: magnolia blossoms, hyacinth, hydrangea, daffodil, rhododendron, pond algae, lilac, oregano (with blooms), comfrey (with blooms), roses, mint, goldenrod, hostas buds after flowering, and wild garlic seeds (a bowlful).

From Winnipeg to Paris, from Montreal to the Philippines, the dash between "Filipino-Canadian" becomes a minus.

clipping, noise, and other distortions are encounters with the threshold of photographic realism. the inner-workings of the systems we employ to generate adequate representations of the world become represented themselves in their failure - Isaac Goes

vulture sets its sights on farm animals, their surrounding flora, and the farming process. Static shots and slow-moving zooms follow the grazing animals in their minute inter-species exchanges. When left to roam together, the sensibilities of these "beasts" are allowed to surface.

The tranquility of this film stretches the information of frames into the rays of a new sun, and desaturate and increase the contrast of frames to conjure up new stars.

The philosopher is a child born under the divorce of being and thinking.

After school the debt remains. But knowledge has always preceded it and will surely outlast it. This claim continues to prove itself with the tranquility of Fare Well (2012)) —which stretch the information of frames into the rays of a new sun, and desaturate and increase the contrast of frames to conjure up new stars

Two friends walk and draw circles. It is what it is, idizwadidiz, c’est ce que c’est, seskecé. Nice weather.

Trees, farm fields with animal livestock, ponds and plants, and natural artefacts disappear in the flicker effect of landscape compositions where sweeping branches carve moving structures into the viewer’s memory, and the transformations of living image threads remind us of the inexhaustible visual exuberance of meadows and grain.

The clean 16mm image is processed normally in a lab, but the tinting and toning was done via 'green' processing with flowers. The shooting and hand developing with flowers was done by Philip Hoffman. It was scanned and then digitally edited by Isiah Medina.

We're just trying to open the chains. Each morning, trying to be open and break the chains.

From this world to the next

As he mulls over the budget for his new film, director-gangster Clem sends his artist cronies after an old comrade rumoured to be a leaker.

88:88, —:—, flashes, demonstrating those who live in poverty live in suspended time.

A painter plots a heist to steal back his own painting from the same museum vault where a filmmaker is shooting their next project.

Kanye takes the mic, Isiah takes the stand

Everything is in constant conversation, even if we can't find the words to express ourselves. Let's help each other find in this collective search.

The infinitesimal in the infinite reflection of a camera recording. We touch and we make the sun: we make time.

Demand full automation, demand a reduced work week, demand universal basic income, destroy the work ethic.

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Being is the same as thinking. How many ways of saying this same thing are there?

A silent flicker film that mixes digital and celluloid. Its only available description is the letters 'kd'.

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An essay on "Demolition of a Wall" (Lumière) + "Kuleshov Effect".