Veronika Soul

Movies

Handcrafted Cinema
In 1994, Caroline Leaf accepted the Sir Allen Sewell Fellowship to give a series of studio workshops and lectures to animation students at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in Brisbane. In this film she talks about her work and demonstrates such techniques as sand animation, paint and cut-out animation and scratch animation.
Unknown Soldiers
Director
An experimental documentary, made up of shots of historic events appertaining to the relationship between Japan and the United States.
End Game in Paris
Director
Based on the novel by Ian Adams, a film-noir treatment of a man's doppelganger obsession.
Canada Vignettes: Countdown
Animation
This vignette illustrates the variety of professions, people and technical procedures required by the filmmaking process.
Canada Vignettes: Countdown
Director
This vignette illustrates the variety of professions, people and technical procedures required by the filmmaking process.
New Jersey Nights
Director
A film about lingering emotional memories.
Interview
A freewheeling cinematic experience, this film is the work of two filmmakers who relate their perceptions of each other through their respective animation techniques. Images and words are paired in startling associations. Each does a visual portrait of the other, based on characteristic gestures and impressions. A combination of techniques and materials produces a film of rich visual texture shaped by the hands and heads of two very different people.
Interview
Director
A freewheeling cinematic experience, this film is the work of two filmmakers who relate their perceptions of each other through their respective animation techniques. Images and words are paired in startling associations. Each does a visual portrait of the other, based on characteristic gestures and impressions. A combination of techniques and materials produces a film of rich visual texture shaped by the hands and heads of two very different people.
Poets on Film No. 2
Director
This short film brings together animated interpretations of 4 poems by great Canadian wordsmiths: “From the Hazel Bough” by Earle Birney, “Travellers Palm” by P.K. Page, “Death by Streetcar” by Raymond Souster, and “A Said Poem” by John Robert Colombo.
Tax: The Outcome of Income
Director
Traces the evolution of Canada’s system of taxation.
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Director
Looks at a 19th-century romance through the courtship letters of a suitor.
How the Hell Are You?
Director
Based on a correspondence with a gay friend in the sixties, this collage film is a portrait of a person and a decade. Against a montage of found images, the narrator comments on life, love, and the American Dream.