(dir. Juliette Singh, Chase Joynt 2025)
Andy Rudolph: sound design, dialogue Kelsey Braun: foley / sfx Justin Delorme: music composition
At the end of her mother’s life, decolonial writer Julietta Singh returns to say goodbye to her childhood home. As she digs into the history of the house, she uncovers 140 years of forgotten matriarchs and political histories she never knew. In this genre-defying cross-community collaboration, a single home is transformed from a place of siloed stories into a site of radical potential.
Hot Docs Festival 2025
Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying
(dir. Natalie Baird, Toby Gillies 2024)
Andy Rudolph : sound design, music composition, dialogue Kelsey Braun: sound design, sfx Gilad Carroll and Sam Sarty: music composition
A short meditation on love, grief, and imagination. This hand-drawn animated documentary was created through a collaboration between mother, elder and narrator Edith Almadi and filmmakers Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies. Lovingly crafted entirely in Winnipeg basement studios. The music from Gil and Sam grew ever more inspired and beautiful as we placed each layer, one-by-one.
Gimli International Film Festival 2024
The Behchokǫ̀ Wildfire Evacuation
(dir. Artless Collective 2024)
Andy Rudolph: mixing, dialogue, music edit Kelsey Braun: sfx
In the summer of 2023 almost 2000 Tlicho Citizens were evacuated for the first time from their home community of Behchokǫ̀ due to wildfires. This documentary shows the challenges faced and the resilience shown by the Tlicho Nation.
Northern Filmmaker Award – NWT Film Commision 2024
Doppelganger
(dir. Colby Richardson 2023)
Andy Rudolph: sound design, music composition Kelsey Braun: sound design, sfx
In Doppelganger, a guidebook for our unsettling age, Naomi Klein dives deep into what she calls the Mirror World—our destabilized present rife with doubles and confusion. AI-generated content blurs the line between genuine and spurious, and so many of us project our own carefully curated digital doubles out into the social media sphere. With original music composed by microsampling AI generated audio and spurious micro-bursts of SFX, this film is another example of sonic maximalism.
Alternative Space LOOP | Seoul, South Korea 2024
Modern Goose
(dir. Karsten Wall 2023)
Andy Rudolph: sound design, music composition Kelsey Braun: sound design, sfx Bruce Little: mixing Christine Fellows: music composition
Director Karsten Wall’s exquisitely observed film essay flips the usual nature-film perspective to offer a deeper message of continuity and connection. Kelsey followed flocks of geese around rural manitoba for weeks to painstakingly create the soundscape of these noble creatures. Moments of sonic hyper-realism are abutted against abstract meta-diegetic drones that suggest a magnetic pull that encompasses everything.
Toronto International Film Festival – IMDbPro Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Film 2023
International Documentary Association – Nominee: Best Short Documentary 2024
Ste. Anne
(dir. Rhayne Vermette 2021)
Andy Rudolph: mixing, dialogue, sound design, music composition Kelsey Braun: sfx / foley, sound design Bret Parenteau: music composition Janell Henry: foley
Ste. Anne follows Renée, a Métis woman returning to her hometown in Manitoba for the first time in four years to reconnect with her family. A visual affinity to vast amounts of time spent listening to the land, this film is heavily comprised of field recording from around rural Manitoba. The stark, brilliant composition of Bret Parenteau became a sort of viscous somnambulant tonic, dreamlike and hallucinogenic, as we remixed.The soundtrack is available for purchase here.
(dir. Eric Plamandon 2021)
Andy Rudolph: mixing, sound design, music composition, sfx Kelsey Braun: sfx
Riverside Queerness reveals hard moments in the Prairies’ shadowed queer history. Three storytellers navigate muddy waters that is Manitoba’s subconsciousness; where truth is blurred by the power of the currents. Lush minimalist score and simple notes of foley envelope the monologues and add a tangible thickness.
Winner Jury prize Best Film Image + Nation FCQSFF 2021
Winner Jury prize Best Short Film – Reel Pride 2021
Tails on Ice
(dir. Miranda Currie 2021)
Andy Rudolph: mixing, dialogue Kelsey Braun: foley, sfx Miranda Currie: music composition
Set in the coldest of climates follows Ellesmere, a fit and instantly loveable Canadian Inuit yearling sled dog sets off on her first training expedition and rite of passage. With the right experience and discipline learns the survival skills from the matriarchs that came before her in order to not only earn, but to defend her position in the dog pack. Running on the Great Slave Lake is no easy task and the pack must navigate strong winds, snowstorms and pack dynamics.
Cannes Short Film Festival in Cannes, France
Nuuk International Film Festival in Nuuk, Greenland
Yellowknife International Film Festival in Yellowknife, Canada
Children’s Film Festival Seattle, Seattle, USA (Feb 11th, 2022)
Cannes Short Film Festival in Cannes, France 2021
Nuuk International Film Festival in Nuuk, Greenland 2021
Yellowknife International Film Festival in Yellowknife, Canada 021
Children’s Film Festival Seattle, Seattle, USA 2022
June Night
(dir. Mike Maryniuk 2020)
Andy Rudolph: sound design, music composition Kelsey Braun: sfx, foley Aaron Funk: sound design Sarah Jo Kirsch: soprano
Working in sublime self-isolation during the strange pandemic spring of 2020, avant-garde filmmaker Mike Maryniuk composes a surreal ode to rebirth and reinvention. Juxtaposing archival imagery with handcrafted animation, he conjures up a shimmering utopian dreamscape, a post-COVID world shaped by the primordial forces of nature—haunted by the genial spectre of Buster Keaton. The SFX and music sampled for the score were all gleaned from the NFB archives. The guest appearances of Aaron Funk and Sarah Jo Kirsch totally blast this score into outer space. Dreams.
Coldshot
(dir. Evin Collis 2021)
Andy Rudolph: mixing, sound design, music composition Kelsey Braun: sound design, sfx
Coldshot follows the surreal journey of a weary passenger train and its travellers as it trudges north to the Hudson Bay revealing glimpses of the monotony, oddities and marvels of Canada’s gateway to the north. The foley is detailed and precise. Under everything, we have pure and beautiful train song, recorded both on and off Via Rail trains across manitoba.
Thursday
(dir. Galen Johnson 2020)
Andy Rudolph: sound design, music composition Kelsey Braun: sfx, foley Galen Johnson: sound design
Shot from a high-rise apartment during COVID-19 “lockdown” in Winnipeg, Thursday captures people going about their daily routines in the city’s eerily empty streets, yards and parking lots, on their balconies and on the riverbanks. The extreme distance and the diminutive scale of humans is paired with sound close-ups—a combination that embodies the strange, heightened intensity of feeling of the time, knowing an era-defining tragedy is happening yet being so physically removed. Seemingly Minimalist and carefully arranged, this film is comprised of a staggering amount of field recording and microsampled progressive house music. All the reverb was generated from locally-recorded IRs. Heavily immersive.
I Propose We Never See Each Other Again After this Night
(dir. Sean Garrity 2020)
Andy Rudolph: sound design, dialogue Kelsey Braun: foley, sfx Murray Pulver: music composition
A romantic comedy about love, and loss, and winter, and banana sauce. This film is lovingly steeped in OG winnipeg field recording.
Directors Guild of Canada – Nominee: Outstanding Achievement in Picture Editing – Feature Film 2021
The Rabbit Hunters
(dir. Guy Maddin, Galen Johnson, Evan Johnson 2020)
Andy Rudolph: mixing, sound design
A deceased filmmaker experiences a posthumous dream in which he attempts to reunite with his wife. Homage to Italian film director Federico Fellini in the year of the centennial celebration of his birth. Many of the techniques used here were later explored in films such as Ste Anne.
Vilo de Conde International Short Film Festival – Nominee: Great Prize Cidade Vila do Conde International Competition 2021
CAFTCAD Awards: Best Costume Design Short Film 2021
Under a Cold War Sky
(dir. Kevin Nikkel 2018)
Andy Rudolph – mixing, sound design
What do you do with a radar station no one wants anymore? Under a Cold War Sky explores the stories from the communities of Skrunda, Latvia and Hall Beach, Nunavut, Canada—two places on the margins, locations of radars built by the Americans and Soviets during the Cold War. The film reveals the stories of those living in places that were swept up in the conflict, people that still have Cold War stories to tell.
The Goose
(dir. Mike Maryniuk 2018)
Andy Rudolph: mixing, dialogue, sfx, sound design, music composition Kelsey Braun: foley, sfx, sound design Paul Leary: music composition
The Goose attempts to regain his voice and to escape his surroundings with the help of an inventive Travel Agent. The Goose must traverse a gauntlet of miscommunication, small town bravado and his Snowbird weirdos to achieve this goal. He hatches a loose plot to migrate to Arizona, where he can receive new age voice therapy and the Escape Artist can escape winter’s clutches. This movie was handcrafted in every way. We created foley and music and design in the studios of Video Pool over the course of two frenetic months. Heavy maximalism.
International Film Festival of Rotterdam, 2018
New Horizons Film Festival, Poland, 2018.
Sydney Underground Film Festival, Australia, 2018.
FNC – Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal, Canada, 2018.
Available Light Film Festival , Yukon Film Society, Whitehorse, Canada, 2019
Unseen Movies Festival, Athens, Greece, 2019.
Mammoth Lake Film Festival, USA, 2019.
Gimli Film Festival, Canada, 2019
Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, Canada, 2020
No Cultural Value – The Artwork of Armand Lemiez
(dir. Mike Maryniuk 2016)
Andy Rudolph: mixing, sound design, music composition
Manitoba folk painter and sculptor tried unsuccessfully for nearly 10 years to will his land, sculptures and 500 paintings to the province of Manitoba. Folk and outsider art is universally celebrated …except in Manitoba, where it is considered disposable, or in the case of Armand Lemiez and the assessment by the provincial Minister of Culture “to have no cultural value”.