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 • Community participation 2005-2009 Producer member and Board of Directors - SAW
Video artist-run-centre 1986 Executive Producer for the Inuit Broadcasting Corp – in charge
of all 1979 Developed grant proposals for documentaries on
alcoholism 1978 Consultant to community videotape project for the Town of Wellfleet, Mass. • Teaching 2006 – 2010 SAW Video Media Co-op 2007 Team Leader - Youth Forum: Flash
Drive — A Capital Assignment 1980 – 1985 Conducted an advanced film and video production workshop and 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. • Education, training, apprenticeships, related experience, etc. 1970-85 |