Edward Folger - Film, Video, Text, etc. Artist

• Independent film, video, text, digital, etc. original works

2010 - THE GENOME OF THE ENDANGERED SESTINA Hypertext Poem. Published in the 12th edition of the online journal Drunken Boat. 

LESSONS IN DEMOCRACY Video Short Machinima: shot in Rose Borchovsky's (Saskia Boddeke) sim environment in Second Life (virtual world) - Winner of "Best Art Visualization, Single Artwork" award from the University of Western Australia.

DANCE FEVER Video Short Machinima: shot entirely in HD from live action in Second Life … made in conjunction with "sex with typos," my Second Life Visual Poetry/Photography Exhibition at the VividBlack Gallery in the Chelsea region.

MEMENTO MORI Video Remix: Moving through Ottawa on public transit with Lyda Roberti from 1933 and Nine Inch Nails from now.

2009 - WATER, LIGHT AND CHAOS: Art By Juan Geuer Video Short: XDCAM-EX documentary and artistic collaboration with 92 year old Ontario artist, Juan Geuer. Funded by grants from SAW Video & City of Ottawa Arts. Exhibited at H2O: Film on Water, Great River Arts, Vermont   Distributed by McNabb Connolly, Mississauga ON

2008 - NO HAPPY ENDINGS Experimental Video Short. Still photographs of the Erie Canal, texts from Herman Melville and music adapted from Anton von Webern. Exhibited in "Reservoir" a group show at The Available light Screening Collective and "Resolution 2008" at SAW Video.

2007 - NEVER SAW IT Video Short: Documentary / music video - The eskimo-centric poetry of Mosha Folger. Funded by a grant from SAW Video. Featured - Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival. Distributed by McNabb Connolly, Mississauga ON

2006 - THE SOUL OF WIT Video Short: HDV & DV Remix of Shakespeare's Hamlet and anecdotes of life in a mental hospital. Funded by grants from SAW Video & City of Ottawa Arts. Shown at the National Library and Archives Canada and film festivals in Montenegro and Serbia.

2005 - THE RIVER OF LIFE New Media work: FLASH & HTML utilizing text, photographs, archival maps and digitized half inch reel-to-reel video. Published in the 9th edition (2008-9) of the online journal Drunken Boat.

1983 - INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR JAM, a documentary aired on the CBC Northern Service series "Northlands".

1984 - INUIT PILOT TRAINING, an Inuktitut dramatization aired on CBC Northern Service.

1980-85 - Wrote (translated by my staff into Inuktitut) and directed 15 episodes of the weekly free-form program, NUNATSIAKMIUT, aired on CBC Northern Service

1977 - NANOOK TAXI, a 90 minute drama of the Canadian Inuit people, aired on PBS as part of the "Visions" series. Digitally restored and re-issued 2009

1973 -THE UPTURNED FACE, a dramatic short, based on a story by Stephen Crane, distributed by Pyramid Films, Santa Monica, CA.

• Unproduced independent film or video works

2009 - Original feature screenplay, GRAVEL ROADS, under development.

1997 - Original feature screenplay, IT ALREADY HAPPENED, optioned by Pacific Motion Pictures, Vancouver and Schulberg Productions, New York.

1993 - Treatment for feature screenplay, REMEMBRANCE DAY, funded by B.C. Film.

1987 - Original feature screenplay, OOLOOSIE, commissioned by Peter O’Brian  Independent Pictures, Toronto.

1980 - Original feature screenplay A PARADISE ON BROADWAY

1970 - Original feature screenplay, SOUL CATCHER

more credits at: Internet Movie Database     Guild Affiliation: Writers Guild of America  

• Screenings, exhibitions, festivals, etc.

Lighthouse Film Festival, Surf City, New Jersey
H2O: Film on Water, Great River Arts, Vermont
Ottawa Art Gallery, Memorial for Juan Geuer
Poetika Kratke Forme Savremene Kanadske Kinematografije, Podgorica, Montenegro
Resolution 2008, SAW Video, Ottawa
Reservoir, Available Light Screening Coop/ SAW Gallery, Ottawa
International TV Festival Bar, Montenegro
Mad About the Arts, Ottawa (CFI, CAMH, City of Ottawa) Library and Archives Canada
Winter Madness, SAW Video screening, Mayfair Theatre
Arctic Film Festival, Iqaluit, Nunavut
Drunken Boat, Online multi-media journal, New York City
Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare, University of Guelph
Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (APTN)
Barnsdall Park Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
PBS Visions Series
CBC Northern Service
GDR German TV

• Community participation

2005-2009 Producer member and Board of Directors - SAW Video artist-run-centre

1990-2004 Producer member of Video In artist-run-centre, Vancouver, BC.

1986 Executive Producer for the Inuit Broadcasting Corp – in charge of all
                Drama Programming.

1979-1980
Produced and photographed Public Service slide presentations for:
·         Indian Center West, Culver City, CA
·         International Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Sylmar, CA
·         Trust for Cultural Preservation, Los Angeles, CA

1979 Developed grant proposals for documentaries on alcoholism                     
              and suicide among Los Angeles urban Indians through the Community
              Relations Department of the Los Angeles County Health Department.

1978 Consultant to community videotape project for the Town of Wellfleet, Mass.      

 • Teaching

2006 – 2010 SAW Video Media Co-op
Various workshops and mentorships, including Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, Post Production Colour Correction, Organizing Your Production, and Jump Start Mentorship.

2007 Team Leader - Youth Forum: Flash Drive — A Capital Assignment
They thought, they spoke, they did! From October 16 to 18, 2007, the National Capital Commission held a national youth forum in Canada’s Capital, in partnership with Historica Encounters with Canada. Young Canadians from all over Canada (aged 14 to 17) worked with professional photographers and videographers to develop thought-provoking clips on the environment, living together and youth culture.
View team video

1980 – 1985 Conducted an advanced film and video production workshop and
            produced dramatic and children's programming in the Inuktitut language for
            Nunatsiakmiut Film Society, Iqaluit.

Over a period of three years, I trained a crew of Inuit filmmakers in all phases of Video Production, from scratch, to the point where our regular dramatic programming (broadcast weekly by CBC Northern Service) was rated number one, in an audience survey conducted in the Central and Eastern Arctic. Several of the filmmakers I worked with, including Zach Kunuk and Paul Apak, went on to found Igoolik Isuma Productions – others joined Inuit Broadcasting.

1978 Conducted workshop at Nunatsiakmiut Film Society in Frobisher Bay, NWT.

1971  Taught a therapeutic film workshop, conceived by Dr. Erik Erikson and 
                 Arthur Penn, at Austen-Riggs Psychiatric Institute, Stockbridge, Mass.

 • Education, training, apprenticeships, related experience, etc.

1970-85
Consultant and Assistant to Director on Sandy Wilson's AMERICAN BOYFRIENDS

Consultant and Assistant to Director on Sandy Wilson's MY AMERICAN COUSIN for Peter O'Brian Independent Pictures, Toronto (shot in Penticton BC)
Associate Producer: THX 1138, George Lucas, Dir.
Second-unit Director and assistant to Director: TAKING OFF, Milos Forman, Dir.
Assistant to Alain Resnais : L'AN 01, (French feature - North American segment)

Assistant Director:
CHEECH AND CHONG'S NICE DREAMS, Tommy Chong, Dir.
DEATH BE NOT PROUD, Donald Wrye, Dir.
THE WILD PARTY, James Ivory, Dir.
MIKEY AND NICKY, Elaine May, Dir.
LANDLORD, Hal Ashby, Dir
HUSBANDS, John Cassavetes, Dir.
SISTERS, Brian De Palma, Dir.
THE LAST DETAIL, Hal Ashby, Dir.

Film Library research and casting for ZABRISKIE POINT, Michelangelo Antonioni
Photo Storyboards for KALEIDOSCOPE, Alfred Hitchcock's unfinished project.

Director, camera, sound & editing Documentaries & Industrials, various NY companies.
Still photographer - Educational filmstrips for Scholastic Magazines, Inc., NY.

B.S. honors program in Engineering Physics and B.A. program in English Literature – Columbia University, New York City.