Rhayne Vermette Movies

A sequel to her earlier Black Rectangle, and reminiscent of Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren’s groundbreaking animations, Rhayne...

“Is this your first visit here?” “Yes.” “Well this whole thing must seem kinda strange to you, huh? You realize that...

Renée arrives to her hometown of Ste. Anne after a long absence. Her brother and his wife are raising her daughter Athene as their own, and...

Across the seasons, two siblings explore and grow in an idyllic but abandoned landscape. A scientist observes the changes with impassive concern....

A murder has been committed on a balcony. But it is only one of the many balconies attached to a large apartment block. Strange things are...

In this very short animation, an apparition reveals itself through celluloid and transmits vestiges of a forgotten provenance. Have the onlookers...

A section cut through a transitional editing tool, the dissolve. For Craig Baldwin.

Smoke offers an experience of a space of metamorphoses that is animated and then dissolves, paradoxically, in light. A sequence of highly...

Rob Vilar, the most criminally unknown actor who has walked the planet Earth. Salvaged from a dumpster near the National Screen Institute’s...

This is the story of the architect, Carlo Mollino, animated within the desk space of failed architect, Rhayne Vermette.

This film is my failed attempt at creating a thematic palindrome of audio/visual samples. When working between two poles of remembering - one easily...

Precluding his destination, that morning, the sky receded into a peculiar darkness. Boarding the northern train, Mr. Seymore drifts through the murky...

Fetishized alpine landscapes of 16mm film collage and rayograms generate an obscured portrait of the godlike, Carlo Mollino. Completed in...

Woman 2 Woman. An 8-fest commission heavily edited for TV purposes.

An architectural portrait emerges as a transmogrification through various broken projectors. These particular projectors are currently being sold at...

There are few alternatives for exiles. The homecoming may be postponed to an indeterminate future; one could settle for a replacement; and lastly,...

“…while many architects through their time have sought a ‘true house’ or a ‘true architecture’, their truth was...

In pursuit of an eclipse, the citizens of Winnipeg flee the city. Meanwhile, stranded in Tudor Village, the caretaker does his best to interrupt...

In 2010, Winnipeg director, Guy Maddin exclaims "it's impossible to collage a film!"

This film documents a tedious process of dismantling and reassembling 16 mm found footage. The film collage imitates functions of a curtain, while...