Derek Jenkins
2021Grounders
Derek Jenkins
"Grounders is an attempt to capture the elation and confusion of play. The film was shot by several children, friends of my daughter, at nearby Lifesaver's Park in Hamilton ON. I was interested in a playground game called 'Grounders,' particularly the vernacular and malleable quality of the rules. Dispute and debate is constant, but it never seems to devolve into a bad time." (Derek Jenkins)
Grounders
The Shouting Flower
Derek Jenkins
A work about collaboration and process, "The Shouting Flower" approaches political resistance from multiple subject positions--plant, child, filmmaker--in an attempt to model what Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing calls "work across difference." Using images processed in plant material that was gathered at key locations throughout the city, as well as direct animation and audio recorded on a child's toy, the film documents its own creation within a landscape of hostility and neglect.
The Shouting Flower
Livestock
Derek Jenkins
Study on one of the stages of film production. Most of the animals at the Warren Livestock Auction will be sold for industrial meat production. The bodies will be quartered and processed and bones prepared to make gelatin which may one day have silver halide suspended in an acetate strip.
Livestock
