Clint Enns

A condensed version of James Benning’s Ten Skies (2004) with the skies removed. Nothing but the clouds remain.

A cinematic text. An anti-immersive experience, an inner odyssey, a world without sound. A collective experience unique to each viewer.

A self help video that rests somewhere between the realms of code hacking, archaic design and spiritual awakening.

This video is a continuous fourteen minute and twenty-seven second slow motion shot of The Rotterdam Tower in Liberty City.

Shot entirely in one take. This film documents the happenings on one of the strangest streets in Winnipeg.

Coney Island, Leslie, ice cream, Mermaid Parade, Niagara Falls, home, Mia’s last breaths.

A condensed version of James Benning’s Ten Skies (2004) with the skies removed. Nothing but the clouds remain.

A cinematic text. An anti-immersive experience, an inner odyssey, a world without sound. A collective experience unique to each viewer.

A self help video that rests somewhere between the realms of code hacking, archaic design and spiritual awakening.

This video is a continuous fourteen minute and twenty-seven second slow motion shot of The Rotterdam Tower in Liberty City.

Shot entirely in one take. This film documents the happenings on one of the strangest streets in Winnipeg.

Coney Island, Leslie, ice cream, Mermaid Parade, Niagara Falls, home, Mia’s last breaths.

“…[an attempt] to provide new ways of visualizing and conceptualizing spaces people are familiar with. The familiar, by definition, is internalized. By making the familiar estranged, it is possible to re-evaluate it. Two of the main strategies I employ in my work to make the familiar estranged are obscurantism and decontextualization.”

This piece combines segments from important non-english films in such a way that when these segments are combined together they sound like wĭn'ə-pěg' sĭn'ə-mə-těk' phonetically. One of the intents of this piece is to allow the films themselves to pay homage to the cinema that played and supported them. Director/Editor: Clint Enns Co-Editor: Jaimz Asmundson Titles: Leslie Supnet Running time: 14 seconds This experimental video mash-up was commissioned by the Winnipeg Film Group and the Manitoba Arts Council in order to help the Winnipeg Cinematheque celebrate its 25th anniversary.

A re-make of a lost James Benning film titled Gleem, a sex negative film about maintaining those pearly whites.

Let Me ASMR You

An homage to Ann Savage.

Re-make of a lost Hans Richter film.

A hand-processed, darkroom manipulated, walk to the pond with Phil and Astrid, at Film Farm 2013

The Death of Natural Language is an ascii animation of a plane crashing into the ground which provides a poetic illustration of how people have lost the ability to express themselves eloquently. Furthermore, the abstracted image mediated by ascii text parallels modern human communication; meaning is often lost or misinterpreted by the process. The music is miko by the beans.

Made entirely from Matthew Rankin’s Hydro-Lévesque (2008) 16mm film discards found in a trash bin.

An homage to Brakhage using techniques inspired by Paper Rad. Film leader painted frame by frame in ms paint.

Light is the first bodily form pays homage to the philosopher of light, Robert Grosseteste. The title is intended to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek since this video was made entirely in the dark, using only a circuit bent Webcam. No additional computer effects were added to the video. The music is the song “Rain Serenade” by Natural Snow Buildings.

Shot for the 4th Annual Winnipeg Film Group 48 Hour Film Contest, a contest in which you shoot and edit a short in 48 hours. This short was made entirely on a Fisher Price Pixelvision camera (or a PXL 2000). No additional computer effects were added.

In the dead of winter, I went to a dance party in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This video is simultaneously about my inability to interact with people as well as my camera’s inability to properly interpret what was going on around me.

Representations of Mathematics in Cinema (Canada, 2008, 18 minutes) From Werner Herzog's Enigma of Kaspar Hauser to Jodie Foster's Little Man Tate, Enns provides both good and bad examples of mathematical representation in mainstream, narrative cinema. In context, Enns creates a juxtaposition between the way mathematics is presented in narrative and non-narrative cinema.

« Circling the Image, Enns' new animation, uses Dewdney's original idea as a starting point, creating a hyper-fast work which plays with Galileo's idea that “Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.” Since our eyes cannot keep up with the speed of the imagery, our brain must fill in the data. ». Leslie Supnet

Botched Eyeball Operation casts a voyeuristic gaze at a common operation gone awry. This is the video documentation of someone losing their sight. For this reason, this video is more horrific than your typical slasher film produced in hollywood.

Chris Burden’s 747 re-performed in Grand Theft Auto IV.

A circuit bent Atari filled with self doubt struggles to qualify as 'good' or 'valid' art.

An instructional video that lies somewhere between the realms of information and guide to spiritual enlightenment.

A PXL2000 video with sound from Downer Canada's Environmental Dubs.

Debbie Does Ascii(an ascii pr0n from a 1981 BBS) is an ascii animation of a scene from Jim Clark's famous 1978 pornographic film Debbie Does Dallas. These images, like most pornographic images, are abstracted versions of human sexuality. In the days of the BBS, many people actually used images like these as a substitute for “actual” pornography.

Triangles of confusion dance to the music of Natural Snow Buildings. Made for the 2007 WNDX One Take Super 8 Event in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Images of a car crash are digitally interpreted using a Nintendo Gameboy Camera. This video is an attempt to demonstrate the inherently dehumanized nature of digital images.

On Light, or the Ingression of Forms is a homage to philosopher of light, Robert Grosseteste. The title is intended to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek since this video was made entirely in the dark, using only a circuit bent webcam. No additional computer effects/sounds were added to the video.

Walking from Sals to Tims is such a sizeable challenge that anyone who undertakes it must have a very good reason. I was motivated mostly by a longing for decent coffee. I wanted to become healthy after eating an unhealthy but fabulous tasting meal. I succeeded in walking over 100 blocks to Tims, taking the back roads, all on foot, with no Segways or bicycles used. Hourly, I put stretches of pot-holes behind me. I saw many beautiful landscapes, met friendly people, socialist workers, and here and there the occasional milksop whiner. I got along well with all of them, and had good conversations. I must say that people in this city are generally pretty strange.

Nam June Paik's Confused Rain No. 2, 1967, a chaotic distribution of the letters C-O-N-F-U-S-E on a sheet paper. Clint Enns' Confused Rain No. 1, 2008, is a post-mortem collaboration with Nam June Paik that expands Paik's work into a computer program that produces an animation of the letters C-O-N-F-U-S-E falling like rain drops. This was written in Visual Basic.

Retro children's TV takes a comical jab when one letter of the alphabet gets a new association.

A voyeuristic intervention into the lives of chat addicted users. This video is a commentary on the parasocial relationships often formed through internet communication.

An experimental film made from discarded film footage found in thrift shops and flea markets in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

A video examining digital copy protection. Macrovision's Ripguard is a technology designed to prevent or reduce digital DVD copying. By ignoring it, and copyright infringement in general, the artist is able to produce new and innovative work.

A homage to the patron saint of cinema. Images produced on a broken cellphone camera.