Stan Douglas

Biography

Since the late 1980s, Stan Douglas has created films, photographs, and installations that reexamine particular locations or past events. His works often take their points of departure in local settings, from which broader issues can be identified. Making frequent use of both analog and digital technologies, Douglas appropriates existing Hollywood genres (including murder mysteries and the Western) and borrows from classic literary works (notably, Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, and Franz Kafka) to create ready-made contextual frameworks for his complex, reimagined narratives that pertain to particular locations or past events.

Directed

1. The Secret Agent (2015) — Director
2. Win, Place, Or Show (1998) — Director
3. Suspiria (2003) — Director
4. I'm Not Gary (1991) — Director
5. Klatsassin (2006) — Director
6. Luanda – Kinshasa (2013) — Director
7. Hors-champs (1992) — Director
8. Nu'tka' (1996) — Director
9. ISDN (2022) — Director
10. Overture (1986) — Director
11. Inconsolable Memories (2005) — Director
12. Journey Into Fear (2001) — Director
13. Der Sandmann (1995) — Director
14. Doppelgänger (2019) — Director
15. Monodramas (1991) — Director
16. Birth of a Nation (2025) — Director
17. Television Spots (1988) — Director
18. Video (2007) — Director
19. Cadavres Exquis (2026) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Art of Time (2009) — Self