11 minutes
Digital to Betacam, 2000, optical sound

'animal movies : fox past' combines footage of urban foxes with an array of cinematic source material to investigate how animal movies impact on 'nature'

'Animal movies' traces the effects of photography and cinema on our experience of 'nature'. Judith Doyle's voice-over is "rewritten, retold, changed" from Alex Wilson's chapter "Looking at the Non-Human" in his book "The Culture of Nature. A Toronto cultural theorist and horticulturalist, Alex died from AIDS in 1993. The appearance of foxes in Doyle's downtown backyard prompted her return to Alex's book. 'Animal movies' is a multilayered montage. Source images include digital video of urban foxes, tourism films from the Archives of Ontario, 19th century chronophotographs by Etienne-Jules Marey, motion studies by Muybridge, anatomical drawings, microphotography, X-rays, telescopics, and Doyle's 1991 videosketches of Alex working on a landscaping project. Doyle, co-editor David McIntosh and compositor Peter Evans manipulated these images with text using AfterEffects and the Avid. Sound designer Kevin Dowler's soundtrack is a potent mix of themes in the film, realized with sound editor Stephen Balen.

10 minutes max
CD Rom Format, 2001

When foxes moved into Judith Doyle's downtown backyard, she was prompted to record them over two years. Pushing the boundaries of non-linear video, motion graphics and streaming media software, 'fox : future' includes random-generated imagery, text and sound. fox : future is an intimate chronicle of urban foxes that assesses environmental damage and the impact of this crisis on both seeing and response. It includes a non-linear story from the viewpoint of 'Runt', a sick urban fox.

How do image technologies shape our experience of nature? This is the theme of Alex Wilson's chapter "Looking at the Non-Human" in his book 'The Culture of Nature'. A Toronto writer and horticulturalist, Alex Wilson died from AIDS in 1983. fox : future is inspired in part by Alex's writing.
Screenings : Artword Theatre, Toronto (Blueprint Premiere)
Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto
Brooklyn Film Festival (WBFF) 2001, NYC

writing, voiceover, camera, flash, sound design € JUDITH DOYLE
flash random code design, programming, inspiration € YEHOSHUA BENDAH € RADIANT FUSION
image compositing, flash, creative collaboration € PAUL ELIA
electric guitar : WIL BALEN
creative input € KAELAN MYERSCOUGH
support € ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL € TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL
commissioned by PLEASURE DOME for BLUEPRINT for Moving Images in the 21st Century

6 minutes
Video, 2003, Colour and Sound

For Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes.
Buenos Aires, Argentina