CONTACT

philtrefilms@gmail.com

ABOUT

Philtre Films is the umbrella under which Kara Blake siphons her creative energy into activities such as: directing short films and music videos, collaborating on installations some might call “art”, designing and compositing visuals for moving and print media and generally contemplating how to make life look more like a View-Master.

Based in Montréal, Philtre Films has produced works screened internationally at venues including the Museum of Modern Art New York, San Francisco Art Institute, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Independent Film Channel. Clients and collaborators include La Guérilla, CBC, NúFilms, MJSTP Films Inc., 7th Embassy, Île Blanche, Macumba International, Peaches and The World Provider.

NEWS

Philtre Films' "The Delian Mode" wins big! The short experimental documentary revolving around the life and work of electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire was the winner of the 2009 Genie Award and 2009 Hot Docs Award for Best Short Documentary.

For more about the film, including upcoming screenings,
please visit: www.thedelianmode.com

SELECTED SCREENINGS / EXHIBITIONS

THE DELIAN MODE - 16mm, 25min, 2009
• Filmer La Musique, Paris, June 2010
• Doku.Arts, Amsterdam, June 2010
• Sensoria, Sheffield, UK, April 2010
• Créteil Festival International de Films de Femmes, Créteil, April 2010
• RVCQ, Montréal, Feb. 2010 (Best Short Documentary)
• CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov. 2009 (Special Mention)
• Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal, Oct. 2009
• Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, Collorado, Sept. 2009
• Hot Docs, Toronto, May 2009 (Best Short Documentary)

UN PAS À LA FOIS - Super 8, .5min, 2007
Part of the exhibition entitled Capsules-Mémoires including film loops by 28 filmmakers in homage to Kodachrome Super 8 film stock. Presented at the Cinémathèque québecois March 2007 and touring Québec in Fall 2007.

TIMBRE - 16mm, 8.5min, 2005
• Baltimore Women’s Film Festival, Baltimore, October 2007
• Festival international du film sur l’art, Montréal, March 2007
• Anthology Film Archives, New York, July 2006
• Femina Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, May 2006
• Open Cinema, St.Petersburg, Russia, May 2005

JULY'S WET DREAMS - Super 8, 3min, 2003
• Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, June 2005 (Honourable Mention)
• VideoEx Int. Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zurich, May 2005
• Images Festival, Toronto, April 2004
• Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin, Feb. 2004
• Montréal Super 8 Festival, Montréal, Sept. 2003 (Prize Winner)

NOCTURNAL ADMISSIONS - DV, Super 8, 16mm, 3min, 2003
• Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, March 2004
• Événement Interuniversitaire de Création Vidéo, Montréal, Feb. 2004
• Splice This! Super 8 Festival, Toronto, June 2003

PLANE - Super 8, 2min, 2001
• Seoul Festival of Super 8 Experimental Film, Korea, March 2003
• Big as Life Festival, Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 2001
• San Francisco Art Institute's Small Windows 8mm Film Fest, May ‘01
• Telluride Experimental Cinema Exposition, Collorado, Oct. 2001

TYPE O - 16mm, 6 min, 2000
• La Casa Encendida VideoMix, Madrid, June 2004
• Rencontres Internationale Paris/Berlin, Paris, Feb. 2003
• The Independent Film Channel, 2002
• MadCat Film Festival, San Francisco, Sept. 2001

SITE CREDITS

* animated KB by Brigitte Archambault, MJSTP Films Inc.
* web programming by Mike Feuerstack
* site design by Kara Blake