David Rimmer
Nacimiento : 1942-01-20, Vancouver, Canada
Historia
Internationally celebrated filmmaker David Rimmer has over 25 experimental and documentary film and video productions to his credit. Throughout his prolific career, he has worked primarily in film, video and photography with his expertise extending to a variety of other media. His multi-faceted background includes working in performance, sound, sculpture, holography and dance. His experience as a performer with Yvonne Rainer's company in New York city left Rimmer uniquely qualified to produce such work as "Roadshow" and "Sisyphus," which feature dance as a medium of expression.
Widely considered to be a key contributor to the emergence of film as an art form, Rimmer's innovation has led to much acclaim. born in Vancouver in 1942, David Rimmer has spent most of his life in his native city with brief periods in New York (1970-72) and Europe (1973). In addition to his provocative work as an artist, he is an instructor in the film and video program at Emily Carr College of Art and Design.
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One of Rimmer's early 2000s video works which he made by hand-painting 35mm film, running it on a flatbed viewer, and shooting it off the screen with a video camera to then subject it to further manipulation.
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A hauntingly beautiful film about the world's flight into chaos. Rimmer has taken McLaren's camera-less technique to new heights. He paints directly on clear 35mm leader, using odd materials such as household cleaners, varnish, inks and sometimes fish scales and ferns. He feeds the loops through a film editing machine, overlays them with music and records the result with a mini DV camera. A production of the National Film Board of Canada.
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A hauntingly beautiful film about the world's flight into chaos. Rimmer has taken McLaren's camera-less technique to new heights. He paints directly on clear 35mm leader, using odd materials such as household cleaners, varnish, inks and sometimes fish scales and ferns. He feeds the loops through a film editing machine, overlays them with music and records the result with a mini DV camera. A production of the National Film Board of Canada.
Editor
An experimental film by David Rimmer (2003) which was influenced by or done to be performed at 'Rave' concerts which Rimmer was fond of attending in the 2000's. The relationship / resemblance of this film to 'light shows' (live projections) of the 1960's is unmistakable as an influence." -Al Razutis
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An experimental film by David Rimmer (2003) which was influenced by or done to be performed at 'Rave' concerts which Rimmer was fond of attending in the 2000's. The relationship / resemblance of this film to 'light shows' (live projections) of the 1960's is unmistakable as an influence." -Al Razutis
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«CODES OF CONDUCT playfully upends the moral order by which man has historically seen fit to measure so called correct behaviour - by ironically re-positioning the rules, Rimmer uncovers their arbitrariness.»
Osnabrück Media Arts Festival 1997
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"David Rimmer's film is at once a somber and celebratory meditation on time and place. Its title, 'Local Knowledge', is marine terminology for what a skipper must know when navigating dangerous waters. Rimmer is an experienced sailor and the film's spiritual and geographical center is aptly named Storm Bay, where he spends his summers. But it's a troubled site. The camera, moving with tide and swell, seems to strain anxiously at its anchor and it becomes clear from here on in nothing will ever be at rest. Local Knowledge won't save anyone anymore.
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Shot entirely using a Steadicam. A video version of a dance piece by the Karen Jamieson Dance Company.
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"The lateral movement of the title "Along the Road to Altamira" signals that we are about to embark on a journey through Spain. Our final destination is Altamira, where the first forms of representation by Paleolithic man still remain. These images, a narrator tells us in German, would have remained undiscovered if not for the childish curiosity and unconditioned vision of the young girl who noticed the ancient paintings of bison on the cave ceiling.
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Cortometraje dirigido por David Rimmer
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A video of a dance performance by the Karen Jamieson Dance Company.
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Cortometraje de David Rimmer
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Documentary about a collaboration between avant garde filmmaker David Rimmer and choreographer Paulo Ross.
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Documentary about a collaboration between avant garde filmmaker David Rimmer and choreographer Paulo Ross.
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Comenzando con un barco que se balancea en su ancla en la cabecera de una ensenada, un paisaje de pilas, de orillas y de bosques se revela lentamente mediante la técnica time-lapse mientras que la niebla de la mañana se eleva. El espacio profundo del paisaje evoluciona fuera de la planitud envuelta en niebla de la madrugada, la cámara salta de punto fijo a punto fijo - sugiriendo el movimiento del ojo humano mientras lee.
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An award winning 45-minute film portrait of Al Neil’s life, music and art.
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Canadian Pacific II is designed as a companion piece to Canadian Pacific I. Shot from a window two storeys higher and in the building adjacent to the artists’s studio of the previous year, one enters into a dream state… an involvement with a vocabulary of seeing and feeling by subtle transitions of the passage of time
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Canadian Pacific I is made up of a series of slowly dissolved shots done from the same framing over several months. The camera frames a window with a railway yard in the foreground, a bay in the space behind it, and misty mountains in the extreme distance. Trains occasionally pass by in the foreground. Huge ships move across the bay. Blue mists hover over the mountain heads.
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Fracture aisla y explora con éxito códigos y convenciones cinematográficos básicos, tales como la dirección de la pantalla y la composición de marco abierto, en la creación de una narrativa implícita y poética.
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Watching for the Queen continued Rimmer's investigations of minimal narrative and the anonymous/autonomous shot. Pattern recognition, saccadic eye movement and feature rings are well known phenomena in the behavioral sciences. However, in Watching for the Queen, Rimmer has succeeded in employing these mechanisms in the telling of a story, by employing mathematical ordering in an aesthetic manner.
Camera Operator
Gary Lee-Nova's comedic, anarchic boxing short.
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"Taken between September 1970 and May 1971, with the unmoving camera apparently bolted to the window ledge, this film, a ten-minute eternity, chronicles what takes place within view of the lens. The backdrop is a typical New York pizza stand, the actors are selected New Yorkers who happened to be there during the half year, the plot is the somewhat sinister aimlessness of life itself." - Donald Ritchie, Museum of Modern Art, NY.
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Cortometraje de David Rimmer
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‘A beautiful, mysterious yet satisfying optical illusion…celebrates the early passing of a steam on the Thames. Using freeze-frame techniques, elaborate dissolves, and most of the resources on the optical table, this picture is, amongst other things, a Turner come to life. Rimmer’s concern with the surface nature of the film is most evident in this work which, in spite of its filmic complexity, is incredibly simple.’ — Donald Richie
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David Rimmer's avant-garde classic takes a single film fragment of a factory worker unraveling a sheet of cellophane, and alters it through a mesmerizing series of spectral apparitions and alchemical and sonic permutations.
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David Rimmer es un joven cineasta canadiense más conocido por sus excursiones en el cine "estructural". La danza es bastante diferente, con una vena distintivamente humorística, aunque, en común con la mayoría de la película de Rimmer, hace un uso sutil de metraje encontrado y bucles extendidos.
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Rimmer tomó el plano de un árbol de pino que caía y realizó bucles de película positiva y negativa de alto contraste en diferentes longitudes. Luego los proyectó y refilmó las imágenes combinadas para crear una serie coreografiada de soportes oscuros y luminosos que caían en patrones rítmicos.
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Hecho para la International Dome Show (Vancouver BC) donde fue proyectado abajo sobre la superficie de la muselina de la bóveda geodésica de Rimmer. La audiencia estaba tendida en el suelo mirando hacia arriba. Como una película de "cine", Blue es sobre el movimiento en la superficie de la película.
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Esta película presenta una interpretación comprimida, desde el amanecer hasta el atardecer, del agua, las nubes y las montañas desde un punto de vista de cámara fija.
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Sucesivos momentos de la película desarrollan contrapuntos rítmicos y orgánicos en los que las transformaciones cósmicas envían medusas al cielo y las olas al sol.
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A rapid fire montage, a dynamic juxtaposition of the world’s vital and destructive forces, the title originating from a Chinese text which refers to the Third Eye. Close up shots of the various faces open and close the film, the very last shot holding on the innocent face of a young child.
