Leslie Supnet

Movies

The Peak Experience
Director
A meditation experience to unlock and reconcile with one's past in an effort to imagine a future actualized self.
Ways + Means
Director
Using the texture and colours of the urban landscape, Supnet offers a hyperkinetic wandering through Toronto. Everyday imagery of the city speeds by, and the familiar is transformed into a new discovery through the camera lens. Made for Pleasure Dome’s Art Spin 2015.
Burden
Director
The push and pull of life continuous and unceasing.
In Still Time
Director
In Still Time is an experimental animation that investigates the catastrophic image and spectacle through direct animation of still images onto 16mm film. The film uses still images found on the internet from the current Syrian civil war; these were laser printed directly onto the film, simultaneously abstracting these images and re-animating them.
Second Sun
Director
The rising sound of drums emphasises flashes of lights, images of our solar system and a post-apocalyptic imagining of the birth of our second sun.
A Time Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Director
Gifted animator Leslie Supnet collaborates with Winnipeg storyteller Glen Johnson for this contemplative comic fantasy about a time-obsessed squirrel.
You Are Here
Director
Invoking the dead to write through a ritual performed by animated hands.
sun moon stars rain
Director
An animated visual elegy, mourning the death of Mother Nature's children. Made for the One Take Super 8 event / WNDX Experimental Film and Video Art Festival.
The Phantom of the Cinematheque
Animation
On the 25th anniversary of his employment, Dave Barber, the visionary workaholic programmer of Winnipeg's beloved Cinematheque, dies tragically in an avalanche of VHS tapes while working late to finish the programming calendar. His workaholic ghost returns to the land of the living to finish the calendar and haunt the Cinematheque by night.
The Animated Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Director
An animated tribute to Jeff Krulik and John Heyn's 1986 video documentary classic, Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Remaining faithful to no-budget filmmaking, Supnet reconstructs her favorite scenes using cut-out characters made out of aged paper, glue and ink.