Okay, so here's how it is: I've put up some short films you can download and view (you'll probably want a high speed connection and be using Windows Mediaplayer 9 or higher). If you want to get a (free) upgrade to Windows Media Player 10 click here.

Some of the movies are also available as a Real player version. If you have realplayer 9 and a highspeed connection I'd recomend the realplayer version as it seems to give a higher image quality. If you want to download a (freee) version of Real Player 10, just click here.

All the movies are up on Google video, so you can also go there to see them (click on links below).


root03x.jpg  will02wZ.jpg
This film was made in Liverpool during the 2006 Arts Biennial
run time: 21 min 31 sec (May 2007)
There are twelve ancient Giants sleeping throughout the world. One of them is in Liverpool and it’s dreaming as it sleeps. It’s dreaming a dream of waking up, and all the people of Liverpool and everyone coming to visit there are part of the Giant’s dreaming. The Giant is calling to all of us to help it awake, and the very fact that you’re dreaming this now and I’m part of your dreaming just goes to show that the time of the Giant’s awakening is drawing near.

ort-1a  greg-01
This film was made in Liverpool during the 2006 Arts Biennial
run time: 3 min 52 sec (Nov 2006)
We stayed at the Living Gallery in Liverpool during the 2006 Biennial (project: We Are Waking The Sleeping Giant). The Art Organization (TAO) fixed up and curated this 18th Century building (which had been empty for thirty years prior. Lots of people coming through. Lots of love and good feeling with Greg and Steve taking care of it all. Who wouldn’t want to go back?


freez1  alley1w
This film was made around and about Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto (Nov 2005)
run time: 7 min 45 sec ~ (18.5 megs wmv format) (26 megs realplayer format)
Why not float free and slide to the side of reality? Visit the alleys behind the main streets. You don't have to stay - return to the world anytime you like. All that suchness is always right there. And because it is, you can always slip off to the side again and the sideways can slip inside you.


jag-01  Jag-02
This film was made in Toronto. It starts out in the Empty Bank and then goes on from there
run time: 28 min 54 sec (Jul 2005)
Trudy put a plastic jaguar into her safe deposit at the Empty Bank. One day when the banking staff arrived they found that Trudy’s box was empty and her jaguar had run away. This is the story of how Trudy and her friends followed the path that the jaguar took as it made it’s way away from the bank, and how the jaguar followed them


tracks2  tracks1
This film shows how En found what she eventually put in her safe deposit box.
run time: 6 min 35 sec ~ 13 megs (Nov 2004)
Every moment is very large: essentially empty, yet full of space - and all the paths to the sideways places run right through. So stand right there for as long as you like, but eventually you’ll continue on and disappear from view.

voice1  voice2
This is the film version of the Empty Banking Pamphlet Meet The Banking Staff
run time: 5 min 30 sec ~ 10 megs (Nov 2004)
It was very strange: there she was just sitting there minding her own business when this voice just started talking to her inside her head - something about an Empty Bank and how she should invest.

jbapt1  jbapt2
This film shows one of the empty investment techniques used on behalf of our investors. Jean Baptiste is the name of this particular willow tree down by the Humber River
run time: 9 min 41 sec ~ 19 megs (Dec 2004)
An assistant manager at the Empty Bank visits a willow tree named Jean Baptiste to make an investment on behalf of four bank patrons.

conver1  conver2
This is the film version of the Empty Banking Pamphlet The Territory Safe Deosit Box
run time: 10 min 41 sec ~ 20 megs (Dec 2004)
Somebody’s talking inside my head, telling me form is emptiness and emptiness is form - wants me to come to the Empty Bank and make a deposit too.


rtalk-1  rtalk-2
This film was made in Toronto. Richard has a studio down the hall from us
run time: 25 min 21 sec (Jun 2006)
Inbetween our words and thoughts the world of objects thrives. As they peek out, the objects see the world of we and they tug and hug and snuggle in, hoping to catch our eye. We never notice - we’re making our plans. But who can be sure which which is who and who is really which? Maybe the objects are dreaming us, feeling us out from the outside in.


remem1  remem2
This film takes place in an installation we made in the Pteros Gallery (Toronto)
run time: 11 min 13 sec ~ 21 megs (Jun 2003)
In the everyday world we sometimes feel we’ve forgotten something very essential. We try to remember whatever it is whenever we can, but sometimes it’s hard to even remember there’s something that needs remembering. This short film was made around and about a gallery showing of an installation by En Burk and Allen Morgan at the Pteros Gallery, Toronto in 2002


bank1  bank2
This is the film version of the Empty Banking Pamphlet The Territory Bank
run time: 9 min 05 sec ~ 17 megs (Jan 2005)
So here’s this guy in my head again, he’s onto to me like flies on brie and me, if I don’t watch out I’ll be stuck with him. He wants me to come to the Empty Bank, invest in emptiness he says. But if I had my way I’d drive away and leave him with you instead.

Click here to see what's happening at the Empty Bank

Click here to see some pictures of the Remember One Thing installation

Click here to read a short bit about Empty Banking

Click here to read a pamphlet about empty banking

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