Kriss Kyle's Kaleidoscope

Christian’s Curtains This work was created in response to Christian Lebrat's installation, "R1R2R3R4 (Who's Afraid Of...)". Through rapid panning and tilting the camera it became possible to convert the installation's curtain panels into flickering colourful textures, reminiscent of "Holon" (1981).

Parhelion An elemental study of refracted light in the multiple states of water (solid, liquid, gas). Also known as a 'sun dog', a parhelion is a halo in the sky formed by the interaction of sunlight with atmospheric ice crystals.

Odd One Out A documentary film about three foreigners who have spent years of living in the Philippines and their struggles with facing discrimination as they interact with the Filipino community. Public historian Xiao Chua explains the historical background of the Filipino's discrimination against other races and white skin glorification.

Painting No. 2 2.5 min | 16mm | colour | sound

Last Call, Rio! Pedro, Kiko and David, three friends in their late thirties, travel to Rio de Janeiro to pick up the lifeless body of Mateo, their best friend from high school, who has died under mysterious circumstances. But when you arrive in Brazil, nothing is what it seems. Mateo, "the dead man", has fled, his house is upside down and one of his ex-girlfriends is desperately looking for him...

Images of Images I was commissioned to make the trailer for the Images Festival on the occasion of their 30th anniversary, and so opted to do a deep dive into their archives to assemble a collage (in chronological order) of the images (and people) of Images. Music by Karl Fousek

Midway Midway is composed of five rolls of Kodachrome Super 8 stock purchased from the Kodak plant in Toronto during the final days before it closed permanently. The rolls were already expired upon their acquisition, but despite this I held onto them for several years, waiting for a subject that would warrant the expenditure of such rare material. I eventually settled on the midway of the Canadian National Exhibition, a three-week long fair held annually in Toronto at the end of summer, after having working there for two years as a sound technician. The mechanical spinning rides, most of which have never been updated since my visits as a child, formed a suitable dance partner to my camera as a pair of declining technologies both still able to impart kinetic thrills.

Kangchenjunga

Island Rainbow glimpses after a stormy day on Kawagama Lake.

ROYGBIV Fragments of a rainbow landscape.