Kyle Armstrong

Kyle Armstrong

Birth : , Canada

History

Kyle Armstrong is a filmmaker who focuses on engaging non-narrative short film. Often working with super8 and 16mm, as well as various video formats, Armstrong frequently uses hand-altering film techniques, employing bleaches, dyes, scratches, and paint to alter both his own footage and found films. His works have been screened at various galleries, during live performances and in traditional cinemas worldwide. His films are influenced by filmmakers as diverse as Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton, Bela Tarr, Alexander Sokurov, Guy Maddin and Andrei Tarkovsky. Kyle has been working with Guy Maddin on the acclaimed director’s ambitious Spiritismes project as a “deputized” director, 2nd Unit Director and visual manipulator. Armstrong is currently collaborating on a 30 minute project EXTENSIONS with sound artist Mark Templeton based around Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, and in the fall of 2013 is producing Hans Olson’s feature film Figurine. He is a former recipient of the Edmonton Artist Trust Fund, and in 2012 he was a recipient of the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award. He is currently the president of the MetroCinema Society, and lives in Edmonton with his wife and three children.

Profile

Kyle Armstrong
Kyle Armstrong

Movies

Hands that Bind
Hands that Bind
Editor
A hired hand's plans to take over his boss farm are shattered when the landowner's son returns to claim his birthright.
Hands that Bind
Hands that Bind
Producer
A hired hand's plans to take over his boss farm are shattered when the landowner's son returns to claim his birthright.
Hands that Bind
Hands that Bind
Screenplay
A hired hand's plans to take over his boss farm are shattered when the landowner's son returns to claim his birthright.
Hands that Bind
Hands that Bind
Director
A hired hand's plans to take over his boss farm are shattered when the landowner's son returns to claim his birthright.
Until First Light
Until First Light
Additional Editor
Follows an unnamed protagonist as he returns to his childhood home following the tragic death of his brother. He struggles with loss as fall gives way to winter and he reluctantly assumes responsibility for the dying family farm where his mother and sister still live. This quiet and intimate work draws the viewer into a meditative rural space as the man attempts to reconcile his past and present.
Until First Light
Until First Light
Additional Photography
Follows an unnamed protagonist as he returns to his childhood home following the tragic death of his brother. He struggles with loss as fall gives way to winter and he reluctantly assumes responsibility for the dying family farm where his mother and sister still live. This quiet and intimate work draws the viewer into a meditative rural space as the man attempts to reconcile his past and present.
Until First Light
Until First Light
Producer
Follows an unnamed protagonist as he returns to his childhood home following the tragic death of his brother. He struggles with loss as fall gives way to winter and he reluctantly assumes responsibility for the dying family farm where his mother and sister still live. This quiet and intimate work draws the viewer into a meditative rural space as the man attempts to reconcile his past and present.
Until First Light
Until First Light
Writer
Follows an unnamed protagonist as he returns to his childhood home following the tragic death of his brother. He struggles with loss as fall gives way to winter and he reluctantly assumes responsibility for the dying family farm where his mother and sister still live. This quiet and intimate work draws the viewer into a meditative rural space as the man attempts to reconcile his past and present.
Until First Light
Until First Light
Director
Follows an unnamed protagonist as he returns to his childhood home following the tragic death of his brother. He struggles with loss as fall gives way to winter and he reluctantly assumes responsibility for the dying family farm where his mother and sister still live. This quiet and intimate work draws the viewer into a meditative rural space as the man attempts to reconcile his past and present.
The Forbidden Room
The Forbidden Room
Additional Photography
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
Figurine
Figurine
Producer
Karin leads a quiet life working at a truck wash and ushering part-time at the hockey arena. Her solitary routine is broken when she meets James, a truck driver seeking work in the city. As autumn approaches winter, Karin opens herself to the possibility of romance.
Abandoned
Abandoned
Editor
Two sisters living in an abandoned farmhouse wait for their father's return.
Abandoned
Abandoned
Writer
Two sisters living in an abandoned farmhouse wait for their father's return.
Abandoned
Abandoned
Director
Two sisters living in an abandoned farmhouse wait for their father's return.
Magnetic Reconnection
Magnetic Reconnection
Director
A short documentary film contrasting the Northern Lights with decaying man-made debris littered throughout the landscape surrounding the town of Churchill, Manitoba in Canada's Arctic. The film touches on the regenerative power of nature and the futility of mankind's struggle against natural processes of decay.