Clark Nikolai

Clark Nikolai

Nacimiento : , Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Originally from Saskatchewan, where he made films and videos in Saskatoon’s vibrant punk and parallel art scenes, Nikolai's work covers all genres and often combines found footage, music and experimental visual effects, stylized staging and dream-like experimental narratives. He is an early pioneer of video art in the Canadian prairies, and was a founding member of both the Open Air Audio Visual Co-op (1984) and Video Vérité Artist Centre (1989) of Saskatoon (now PAVED). Since 1981, he has produced over fifty videos and films, which have screened and received awards around the world. His practice has also included still photography and experimental music.

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Clark Nikolai

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Troublemaker on the Frequency
Troublemaker on the Frequency
Editor
Troublemaker on the Frequency is a short experimental video that explores mis-communication through found sound recordings, amateur radio, and glitch.
Troublemaker on the Frequency
Troublemaker on the Frequency
Director of Photography
Troublemaker on the Frequency is a short experimental video that explores mis-communication through found sound recordings, amateur radio, and glitch.
Troublemaker on the Frequency
Troublemaker on the Frequency
Director
Troublemaker on the Frequency is a short experimental video that explores mis-communication through found sound recordings, amateur radio, and glitch.
Exempli gratia
Exempli gratia
Director
Psychiatric labelling imparts new meanings to found footage of 1980s TV and home movies from Saskatoon's punk scene.
A Message
A Message
Director
Using found footage, several members of royalty inform the citizens of an impending doom from space coming toward Earth.
Frolic
Frolic
Director
A journey to a lake to find danger.
Naked Pursuits
Naked Pursuits
Editor
Three men, whose jobs require them to work nude, talk about life, bodies and how nudity can make a difference.
The Bathroom Mirror
The Bathroom Mirror
Director of Photography
A young man encounters a dark force in this surreal and time twisting thriller.
The Bathroom Mirror
The Bathroom Mirror
Co-Producer
A young man encounters a dark force in this surreal and time twisting thriller.
Avalanche
Avalanche
Director
An experimental film involving ice cubes melting in a trough at a leather bar.
From the Ashes
From the Ashes
Dolly Grip
Mark is a concert pianist who has lost his lover, David to AIDS. When he starts to see visions of David, he finally realizes that it's okay to move on.
From the Ashes
From the Ashes
Grip
Mark is a concert pianist who has lost his lover, David to AIDS. When he starts to see visions of David, he finally realizes that it's okay to move on.
Petrus et Lupa
Petrus et Lupa
Director
A young man in the Alps is confronted with his culture's fears of nature, wolves, sexuality and wildness. Based on the short story Peter and the Wolf by Angela Carter.
Travel Sketch
Travel Sketch
Director
A frustrated jet-setter who can't travel discovers video superimposition. Through the magic of video technology, he is relegated to a box at the bottom of the screen as other people's pictures of faraway lands are shown. The protagonist reflects his generation's acceptance of today's diminished expectations. He is left to film his seemingly blank space coupled with his amusing narrative as others explore the world.
Travel Sketch
Travel Sketch
Traveller
A frustrated jet-setter who can't travel discovers video superimposition. Through the magic of video technology, he is relegated to a box at the bottom of the screen as other people's pictures of faraway lands are shown. The protagonist reflects his generation's acceptance of today's diminished expectations. He is left to film his seemingly blank space coupled with his amusing narrative as others explore the world.
Mary Manic's Decorum
Mary Manic's Decorum
Director
A man and a woman attempt to start a conversation with a third person. A spinoff of Spanghew Decorum.