Keep a Modest Head

Men live in a mine.

Arriving in Winnipeg's North End in search of a better life, young Ukrainian immigrant Eva finds a city filled with rundown, outdated establishments and a disproportional number of other immigrants all too in search for a new life, all desperately holding onto their language and cultural, creating a neighborhood of miscommunication, apathy and growing alienation.

Inspired by fragments of Gus Van Sant's LAST DAYS, DUMB ANGEL features 17 year-old preternaturally talented rock drummer Anders Erickson, the undisputed incarnation of the Who's Keith Moon. Equal parts short film, improvised performance, documentary, music video, experimental film and audio composition, DUMB ANGEL presents an odd examination of fame, talent and television celebrity.

With the use of rapid cutting and lyrical movement, FILM(luster) concentrates on a young man who is foiled into choosing his fate by force of habitual nature.

A man polishes his shoe.

With the use of expressionist cutting and lyrical movement, KNOUT concentrates on a young woman who sets down to the task of tying rope. She meets a doppelganger version of herself, and a vicious confrontation of self occurs.

Summer passings observed the enigmatic West Nile malady steal its way into the minds and forests of Winnipeg wanderers, casting its feverish amnesia spell; immobilizing wooded creatures collectively pleading to be cured and released of their infirmity. A cautious wanderer disregards her own ailment to aid the others as best she can; however the forest hosts its own fevers.

Using archival footage, newsprint images, text and an innovative use of audio, award winning filmmaker Deco Dawson has fashioned a sensitive yet harrowing collage account of the 1947 Black Dahlia murder. Created exclusively using crude digital technology, the film presents a human side to the murder, focusing on the victim Elizabeth Short and not the often-sensationalized aspects of the murder and unknown murderer.

A captivating portrait of a young woman's temporal test of fate and purity. Thrown into a vaguely familiar yet unkind world, the beautiful, virginal, young anima must cope and endure as best she can, striving to exude her purity upon the cold, immoral universe

Filmmaker Deco Dawson has created an entirely fictional biography of the internationally celebrated visual artist Marcel Dzama. FILM(dzama) is motivated by the sheer magic, humour and disobedience of Marcel Dzama's work, coupled with the the stylistically obstinate themes common to dawson's work. FILM(dzama) is an attempt to rekindle the surrealist cinema made popular in the 1920's by Dali and Bunuel and Man Ray.