Lois Siegel

A 20th Century Chocolate Cake

Lois Siegel

Greg Van Riel, Charles Fisch Jr.

Greg and Charles, two young men in Montreal, are trying to find creative fulfillment in their professional lives; Greg pursues work as a freelance writer of human interest journalism, while the openly gay Charles takes a job as a dancer in a gay bar.

Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family

Lois Siegel

This short film from the Canada Vignettes series profiles a unique French-Canadian family, the Fourniers, 12 of whom work as stunt men and women for films.

Baseball Girls

Lois Siegel

Jackie Autry, Faye Dancer

This feature documentary uses animation, archival stills and live-action footage to detail the history of women's participation in the largely male-dominated world of baseball and softball. Zany and affectionate, it features 7-year-olds learning the rules and skills of the game and 50-year-olds hitting home runs, from the early days of the Bloomer Girls to the heyday of the Colorado Silver Bullets.

Lip Gloss

Lois Siegel

Eight years in the making, Lois Seigel's documentary paints a vivid portrait of Montreal's gay and transgender population, paying special focus to drag queens and transvestites. Those interviewed include a dancer from the famed Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, and locally famed characters such as Armand Monroe, Guilda, and Bobette.

Arena

Lois Siegel

Stark black and white photographs of faces airbrushed with color.

Painting with Light

Lois Siegel

Painting with Light consists of images produced by moving light. Techniques include re-filming slides in an animation fashion. Original slides are time-exposure images of color-filtered light. The experiment questions whether light can be controlled in a manner similar to that of the painter-artist. The use of an optical printed allows some manipulation or extension of certain scenes. Also, unmasked negative printing is intercut to strengthen the "painting" effect.

Faces

Lois Siegel

Photographs of faces; in-camera transitions.

Paralysis

Lois Siegel

Images produced on an oscilloscope attached to a computer.

Dialogue of an Ancient Fog

Lois Siegel

The account of a man without qualities. He's the leftover face in the crowd who collects images, the unwanted images discarded by people without even a glance. He tells us stories as he moves through no particular time toward no particular space.

Brandy Alexander

Lois Siegel

A fish in pursuit of a banana; a hand with drawers; a show bar, complete with bird bartender; an ear umbrella stand; and a man whose nose ticks like a clock.

Fipsi

Lois Siegel

Documentary about a spunky 80-year-old lady.

Plastic Dreams

Lois Siegel

Through the use of pixilation, this zany film introduces strange characters and happenings.

Solitude

Lois Siegel

a film about the nature of the individual in the world and about the individual as he moves from one space to another, shadowed by structures.

Pancake on a Hot Tin Roof

Lois Siegel

Spoof focusing on Joe Private as the detective who does everything wrong.