JONATHAN CULP is the creator of over thirty short films and videos, including collage, documentary, and super 8 works, as well as the feature comedy "Grilled Cheese Sandwich". He has helped to promote truly independent media as co-founder of the Toronto Video Activist Collective; via the Satan Macnuggit Video Road Show; as workshop coordinator for the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT); and most recently as a contributor to Trash Palace, "Toronto's Classiest Cinema". He has been described as 'Toronto's Most Indefatigable Underground Video Guru' (NOW Magazine, Best of Toronto)

DEATH MASK
(2004, 5:18)

A death mask of my grandfather inspires me to catalogue 100 years of family history – Culps and Carmans, cancer and madness and separation, a bottomless supply of Donalds and Russells and Sues – until the make meets its own comically tragic end. With rapid-fire visuals drawn entirely from family photos albums, “Death Mask” challenges the compulsion to conquer chaos with art.

Please note: this video contains brief fragments of appropriated commercial imagery.
WARNING – CONTAINS ADULT IMAGES AND THEMES