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A stylish, in depth look at the renaissance in psychedelic drug research in light of current scientific, medical and cultural knowledge.

"I Am My Own Laboratory" is an experimental documentary on a remarkable woman. Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, is an English scientist, drug policy reformer, artist and penetrative cultural provocateur. In 1998, she founded the Beckley Foundation, a charitable trust that promotes a rational, evidence-based approach to global drug policy policies and initiates, directs and supports pioneering neuroscientific and clinical research into the effects of psychoactive substances on the brain and cognition. The central aim of her research is to investigate new avenues of treatment for such mental illnesses as depression, anxiety and addiction, as well as to explore methods of enhancing well-being and creativity. Feilding learned about the ancient practice of trepanation from Bart Huges, whom she met in 1966, and who published a scroll on the topic. She trepanned herself in 1970.

E V O is a visually daring documentary look at evolutionary theory that comes off like a university course in paleobiology as taught by Marshall McLuhan." Monday Magazine Festival Screenings: - The International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam - 2002 - European Media Arts Festival, Germany -2003 - The Hot Docs ! International Documentary Festival - 2003 - The Vancouver International Film Festival - 2002 - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. - 2003 E V O is a feature digital essay on questions of Evolution and Consciousness and features eminent Evolutionist/Oxford Professor/Author Dr. Richard Dawkins. "A playful, fiercely intelligent exploration of the history and future of evolutionary theory and its impact on human society...Packed with striking concepts and intricately composed imagery, E V O, hums with energy and insight." Vancouver International Film Festival - Elan Mastai E V O - a philosophical, whimsical, radical investigation. Including imagery created with hacked C.G. software, inflections of artificial life algorithms and fractal generators. E V O - a study and reflection on the history and future of evolutionary theory, its meaning to humans, with a focus on the question of contingency as argued by Naturalist Stephen J. Gould in his best seller "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History".

Aldous Huxley: The Gravity Of Light incorporates rare archival footage, computer rendered 3D animation, speculative fictions, and selections from his essays. The film begins by reflecting upon that crucial, prophetic work "Brave New World" (1932, Aldous Huxley) and then moves to a further inquiry into the human ramifications of current technological change. The film also recalls the impact of Huxley's LSD-25 and mescaline experimentations and writings for a generation of youth and examines the utopianistic impulses associated with the Rave scene.

"Provocative... winningly goofy work in which paradox is paramount and truth is always around the bend." Ken Eisner, The Georgia Straight. A digital video comedy about religious ecstasy.

"E V O is a visually daring documentary look at evolutionary theory that comes off like a university course in paleobiology as taught by Marshall McLuhan." Monday Magazine. Intellectual, arty, political film on evolution..Not for everyone..A thinking path walk with Darwin, Richard Dawkins an alien sphere, a gorilla from the London Zoo, plus a neotonic cyber geisha.

A post-punk gonzo doco from the 1980's refreshed in 2023. The Squamish Five - a significant historical Canadian recollection, a refreshment of memory in a time of ever increasing environmental suicidal somnambulism and political dementia.

Half of the film was captured through the lens of a hand-cranked 35mm camera, specifically a 1912 Bell and Howell 2709 - B. The remaining portion was filmed in high definition. Following meticulous manual processing and employing a color matrix and gamma derived from a personally crafted emulsion (utilizing my own tinted blood cells for grain, inspired by a 1930s patent), the film underwent a transformation into high-definition video. The essence of the work revolves around contemporary representation, navigating the realms of analog and binary, electricity, hydro power, British Columbia, the inception of cinema via Eadweard Muybridge, the energy certificates of the Technocracy party, the intrinsic value of noise, the pivotal year of 1957, regional Vancouver modernism, the cosmic origins akin to the Big Bang, Vermeer's timeless "Milk Maid," the Poincaré recurrence theorem, the melodic resonance of the great Canadian cowboy singer Wilf Carter, the embodiment of Grace in Catholic painting, the Tathagatas of Buddhism, and the poignant image of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein reaching for the light.

A critical reading of the events of the Canadian Rebellions of 1837 and 1838 and the true story of the banishment of a political prisoner of the Lower Canada Rebellion to the Australian penal colonies. Based in part on the actual Australian 1840-42 prison journal of the exiled François Maurice Lepailleur, the film uses strategies of collage to speak of the crises in the Canadian national identity. And with a Governor-General who has tea with pigs, balances on a circus ball; a revolutionary who literally spits fire; an executioner with a poor memory; and a person of indeterminate sex named Jesus de New York, this film is a uniquely extravagant vision of some crucially important events in the life of 'an improbable and yet ridiculously fortunate country'.