Film/Video
Monument 83 (excerpts)
2021
Cinematography is foregrounded and pushed to its limits in this story that blurs the fictive and the real. A series of strange encounters occur at two fire watchtowers, each on either side of the Canadian-American border, after an American hiker visits the firewatcher on the Canadian side. Soon after this encounter, the watcher becomes obsessed with a high mountain lake that he believes to be moving from one place to another in these high alpine borderlands.
When the watcher finally finds the lake he is capitulated into an indecipherable reality, oscillating between hope, fear, and despair played out through a labyrinthine structure of memories, dreams, fantasies and echoes. Inner and outer realities blend as hand drawn animation overlaps the landscape as the firewatcher abruptly crosses his own mental threshold, destabilizing familiar conceptions of the “border”.
At this point, he recedes into this borderland space that appears empty, static and intransigent yet is a majestic landscape humming with the siren-like frequencies of the unconscious. Straddling the borderline between geographic territories and his own symbolic landscape, his desire for an extended sojourn exile is weighted against the hard inescapable reality of a fast approaching winter. Here, the ambiguity of the border zone is evoked: crossed radio signals and echoes that could be threats or calls for help.
Written, directed and produced by Keith Langergraber
Starring: Keith Langergraber and Christie Watson
Original music: Heather McDermid Animation,
Videography, Editing: Keith Langergraber, Heather McDermid
Script Editors: Shyla Sellers, Christie Watson
Colourist: Sean Arden
Sound and Dialogue Editor: Heather McDermid
Production Assistant: Graham Allport
We acknowledge the support of The Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council.
Double Negative, Double Whammy
Excerpts from “Double Negative, Double Whammy" by Keith Langergraber 2016
You Can't Go Home Again (excerpts)
2012
A science-fiction fan becomes obsessed with Donald Crowhurst's ill-fated, around the world sailing expedition. In an attempt to counter the effects of time-travel, he searches for clues left by the shipwreck of the Teignmouth Electron.
Director/Producer/Writer: Keith Langergraber
Animation: Keith Langergraber (with Sean Arden)
Music: Ross Birdwise
Videography: Sean Arden, Keith Langergraber, Heather McDermid
Sound: Ross Birdwise, Heather McDermid
Editors: Sean Arden, Keith Langergraber
Makeup: Emily Thacker
Cast: Dan Kibke, Keith Langergraber, Emily Thacker
Narrator: Heather McDermid