BURGHERS OF VANCOUVER
directors - Denys Arcand and Adad Hannah
The Burghers of Vancouver (2015) is a program of 6 short films which I edited for visual artist Adad Hannah and academy award winning Quebec filmmaker Denys Arcand.
The Burghers of Vancouver(2015) was shot on location in Paris and Vancouver. It tells the stories of six individuals hired by a shadowy employer to recreate Rodin's 1889 bronze Les bourgeois de Calais in an urban plaza in Vancouver. Each of the six vertical screens follows a single participant from when they wake up and go to work until they return home and go to sleep. The six discrete stories come together to paint a picture of a group of people alone together as they assume the roles of Rodin's Burghers and perform a tableau vivant.
PROJECT RAINBOW - BLUE
Project Rainbow's fourth dance and media based project, Blue, is an experimental film and dance documentary, installed at four venues in East Vancouver as well as the LED screens at Robson and Granville Streets, from January 31 until March 21, 2010.
The film installation featured the Canadian Women's Ski Jumping Team 2009 in flight. The jumpers were filmed ski-jumping while training in Zakopane, Poland, for the 2009 World Championship which took place in Liberec, Czech Republic. This footage was shown on the giant LED screens in Downtown Vancouver. The jumpers were also filmed performing gestures based on their physical training and choreographed by Project Rainbow. Both aspects of the film were shown as Chapters at the host sites in East Vancouver. This project was commissioned by the City of Vancouver.
Installation preparation at the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris.