C.V.
EDUCATION
2005 York University – Masters of Fine Arts in Screenwriting
2001 Simon Fraser University – Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2014 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Program
2012/13 UnionDocs Collaborative Studio Program
2006 Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab
2006 Canadian Film Centre Short Dramatic Film Program
2005 Canadian Film Centre, Film Resident Program, Directors' Lab
FILMS
2018 CANE FIRE (Documentary, 120 mins, in post production)
Producer, Directed by Anthony Simon
2014 GOODBYE SOUTHSIDE (Documentary, 4 mins, HD, Color and B&W)
Director / Co-Writer / Editor
2014 THIRD SHIFT (Documentary, 20 mins, HD, Color)
Producer, Directed by Anthony Simon
2014 DOMINO 1989 (Found Footage Documentary, 12 mins, HD, Color)
Conceived & Edited with Anthony Simon
2012 VANCOUVER #1-13 (Notes For A Report…) (Doc/Fiction, 60mins, HD, Color)
Director / Producer / Writer / Editor
2010 THE OLD WAYS (Fiction, 13mins, 16mm, B&W)
Director / Producer / Writer / Editor
2008 UMBRELLA (Fiction, 6mins, HD, Color)
Director / Producer / Editor
2006 SKINHEADS (Fiction, 16mins, 35mm, Color)
Director
2006 FILLIDOR (Fiction, 18mins, 35mm, B&W)
Director / Producer / Writer / Editor
AWARDS & GRANTS
2014 Best Short Documentary, Brooklyn Film Festival
2012 Canadian Art Foundation Writing Prize
2009 Ontario Arts Council Grant
2008 Silver Medal, Brno 16 Film Festival
2008 Honourable Mention, Brno 16 Film Festival
2007 InVision Prize, Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival
2007 Best Screenwriting Award, Canadian Filmmakers’ Festival
2007 BravoFact Grant
2006 Special Merit Award, Euroshorts International Festival of Short Film
2006 Special Award for Originality, Belgrade Festival of Short Film
2005 Canada Council For the Arts Grant
2005 AGYU Critical Writing Award
2005 Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Fellowship
SCREENINGS
2016
MUBI
2015
MoMA PS1 "Greater New York" exhibition (Film Program)
2014
Brooklyn Film Festival
Brooklyn Museum
San Francisco Cinematheque
Northwest Film Forum (Seattle)
UnionDocs "Sweet Work: Shorts on Labor at the Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn"
Free University NYC: Subtleties of Resistance
2013
Nightingale Theatre "Surveillance, Protest, Spectacle: Films by Michael Vass & Jem Cohen"
2012
Marginal Utility Gallery (solo exhibition)
Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art (in the group exhibition "First Among Equals")
Formentera Film and Art Festival
Shorts TV UK
2011
Anthology Film Archives New York
Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival
Mauvais Genre Film Festival
Lago Film Fest
Peniche Cinema Carte Blanche Series
Aesthetica Short Film Festival *One & Other review
Shorts TV UK
Bravo Television
2010
Toronto International Film Festival *Eye Weekly review
Brno 16 Independent Film and Video Festival
Euroshorts International Short Film Festival
Bravo Television
2008
Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival
Gimli Film Festival
Bravo Television
Brno 16 Independent Film and Video Festival
2007
L.A. International Short Film Festival
Detroit Museum of New Art
Karlovy Vary Fresh Film Festival
Cinequest San Jose
Lille International Festival of Short Film
Euroshorts International Short Film Festival
Victoria Independent Film Festival
Declaration of Independents Film Festival
Canadian Filmmakers Festival
Movieola Television
2006
Montreal World Film Festival
Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival
Calgary International Film Festival
Cape Town Festival
Worldfest Houston
Belgrade International Festival of Short Film
Camera Bar Toronto
Movieola Television
PUBLICATIONS
"Thinking Through Music: Stan Douglas' Luanda Kinshasa" THE INFINITE MIX (Exhibition Catalogue), Hayward Gallery London, September 2016
"After the Last River: Interview with Victoria Lean," THE RUSTY TOQUE #10, June 2016
"Live in Black & White: Stan Douglas' Helen Lawrence" CINEMA SCOPE #65, December 2015
"Excuse Me!?! ... I'm Looking for the "Fountain of Youth," Michael Smith at Greene Naftali"
MOMUS, September 2015
"History Lesson: An Interview with Mike Watt" THE RUSTY TOQUE #8, June 2015
"Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition at TIFF" CANADIAN ART, Spring 2015
"Interview with Danis Goulet about Barefoot" THE RUSTY TOQUE #7, November 2014
"Mark Lewis at Daniel Faria Gallery" CANADIAN ART, October 2014
"Marcel Dzama Does the Dance at David Zwirner" CANADIAN ART, September 2014
"Interview with Franci Duran about Mr. Edison's Ear" THE RUSTY TOQUE #6, June 2014
"Both Sides Now: Michael Snow's Photo-Centric at The Philadelphia Museum of Art" CANADIAN ART, April 2014
"Objects & Images: Erin Shirreff & the Grey Areas of Representation" CANADIAN ART, Spring 2014
"Artists’ Walks: The Persistence of Peripateticism" C MAGAZINE, Spring 2014
"Stan Douglas's Luanda Kinshasa at David Zwirner" CANADIAN ART, February 2014
"Ithaka & Pirandello: Two Films by Bojan Bodruzic" THE RUSTY TOQUE #5, November 2013
"Rodney Graham at 303 Gallery" CANADIAN ART, June 2013
"Alan Berliner's First Cousin, Once Removed" UNIONDOCS.ORG, April 24, 2013
"Niall McClelland's Bruce to Brock and Back at Envoy Enterprises" CANADIAN ART, April 1 2013
“Thomas Bernhard’s Prose” THE RUSTY TOQUE #4, February 2013
"Interview with Antoine Bourges on East Hastings Pharmacy" CINEMA SCOPE MAGAZINE, January 2013
“The End Goes On: Bela Tarr’s The Turin Horse” MACHETE, September 2012
"Rusty Talk with Michael Vass" Interview with THE RUSTY TOQUE ONLINE, April 2012
“Surviving Life (Theory & Practice): Swimming Lessons with Dr. Svankmajer” MACHETE, February 2012
“Dead Roots: Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life” MACHETE, November 2011
“The Time That Remains: Elia Suleiman’s Policy of Ambiguity”, MACHETE, August 2011
“Dollar-Book Void: Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void”, MACHETE, March 2011
“Harmony Korine Rubs Up Against The American Nightmare in Trash Humpers”, MACHETE, September 2010
“In Praise of Vain Gestures: Roberto Bolaño’s Antwerp”, MACHETE, July 2010
“Michael Haneke and The White Ribbon”, MACHETE, February 2010
“Noir After God: Werner Herzog’s The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans”, MACHETE, January 2010
“Cinematic Meaning in the Work of David Lynch”, CINEACTION Issue #67 (September 2005)
“Mike Hoolboom: The Invisible Man”, with Claire Eckert, Art Gallery of York University 2004