Select work can be viewed on Vimeo at the 253469 channel here: http://vimeo.com/channels/twofivethreefoursixnine
Blue Whiskey
Inexpensive condominiums being constructed on the shores of Toronto
quickly intoxicate the single resident who washes her hair and wishes
she could go fly a kite.
Directed and produced by Wesley Rickert
Performances by Olivia Roblin, Christina Kozak and Kathleen Reichelt
Audio by the 253469 electronic punk jazz noise band
15 min
2012
Black Plastic Fork
A cosmic epic of a chandelier, a snake, a toy motorcycle cop, a
pineapple, the city of Toronto, a cloud and a dancer.
Directed and produced by Wesley Rickert
Performances by Christina Kozak and Kathleen
Reichelt
Audio by the 253469 electronic punk jazz noise band
20 min
2012
The New Democracy Of Recycled Freedom
Made of left-over good ideas, Innocence, Justice and The Police State take the stage and fail to do the right thing. Super jails are being built, new crimes are being invented and Big Brother wants to watch over us. Where is the opposition?
Directed and produced by Wesley Rickert
Performances by Kathleen Reichelt, Amber X and Sammy The Dog
Analogue synth track by Kathleen Reichelt and Wesley Rickert
19 min
2012
The Greatest Moment In The Life Of A Radish
Science, Freedom and Labour confront the vague alienation produced by the contemporary abstract economic landscape of Canada.
Written by Kathleen Reichelt and Wesley Rickert
Directed and produced by Wesley Rickert
Performances by Kathleen Reichelt, Wesley Rickert, Art Szombathy
Audio by Amber Scott (vocals), Kathleen Reichelt (keyboard) and Wesley Rickert (drums and electric stick)
15 min
2011
Black Clouds
A short film by Wesley Rickert & Kathleen Reichelt
A new romance emerges in this short absurdist film, as meaning and meaninglessness struggle for dominance and peaceful co-existence on the blank stage of existential philosophy.
Wesley Rickert, Kathleen Reichelt, Ian Malone, Brooke Stubbings
8 min
2011
The Tree That Makes Me Laugh
A rotating leafless tree attracts a dancing girl, puppets, a wild man, death and an elderly woman. A Poem is read.
Wesley Rickert, Kathleen Reichelt, Christina Kozak and Dare Shapiro
9 min, 30 sec
2011
Card Board Rocket Ride
The Platonically inspired pilot of a card board rocket blasts off in this short Dadaist art film to discover a better place for Art. During his travels Art encounters Spirit, Appetite, Reason and Pandora appears with her box.
Directed by Wesley Rickert
Script and improvised narration by Kathleen Reichelt
Improvised digital drum track by Wesley Rickert
Performances for the camera by Toronto city artists Christina Kozak, Tonya Henry, Kathleen Reichelt, Wesley Rickert and Art Rai Szombathy
11 min
2010
Nature verses the machine
Canadian Beat Film Poem Number 8
Nature encounters the machine and a series of paradoxes in this short Dadaist art film.
Performances by Tonya Henry and Kathleen Reichelt
Written by Kathleen Reichelt
Directed and produced by Wesley Rickert
9 min, 40 sec
2010
Blue Tarp Black Boots
Written by Kathleen Reichelt
Directed and produced by Wesley Rickert
Performance by Kathleen Reichelt
2 min
2010
Recently In Paree
Written by Henri Benvenuti
Directed and produced by Wesley Rickert
Performance by Henri Benvenuti
2 min
2010
Demonstration of Concept
Created by Wesley Rickert
6 min
2010
New Bok Choy Moon
Created by Kathleen Reichelt and Wesley Rickert
6 min
2010
