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Rick Raxlen

Rick Raxlen

Director

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Biography

Rick Raxlen has been working as an artist and filmmaker since the late '60s. He began as a filmmaker with the NFB alongside Arthur Lipsett and Norman McLaren in Montreal, and was awarded one of only two Genies (Canadian Film Award) ever given for Best Experimental Film ("Legend," 1970). After a stint teaching at Concordia University and many short films, he went on to make the feature film "Horses in Winter" (1988), named as one of the best films of the eighties by Cinematheque Quebecois. After many more short works and another award-winning feature ("The Strange Blues of Cowboy Red," 1995), Rick abandoned the long form out of frustration with the impersonal nature of the process, and turned in earnest to a new obsession: the animated short form. This has been his primary moving image-based artwork for the past 25 years since he relocated to Victoria, BC. Rick is a strong proponent of non-institutionalized art-making practices and largely works outside of the system, producing and exchanging Mail Art and an incredible output of drawing and printmaking work presented in galleries and alternative venues worldwide.

Directed

  1. Anger After Death (1971) — Director
  2. Horses in Winter (1988) — Director
  3. Deadpan (2002) — Director
  4. Earthware (1975) — Director
  5. The Polytechnic World (1984) — Director
  6. 15 Soldiers, 11 Machines, 8 Cows (1983) — Director
  7. Duck Talk (1984) — Director
  8. Flagman's Nightmare (1984) — Director
  9. The Divine Right (1985) — Director
  10. Grey's Lullaby (1984) — Director
  11. U - Champions (1999) — Director
  12. Tongue Tied (1988) — Director
  13. Slippage (1999) — Director
  14. The Sky Is Blue (1969) — Director
  15. Self-Portrait (with Fish) (1984) — Director
  16. Mirage (1972) — Director
  17. Pure Mutation (1984) — Director
  18. The Strange Blues of Cowboy Red (1996) — Director
  19. The Geometry of Beware (1998) — Director
  20. Kanga vs Werewolf (2020) — Director
  21. Sea Horses and Flying Fish (2020) — Director
  22. Fish Don't Talk (2020) — Director
  23. Frottage/Dommage/Fromage 2 Vous (2008) — Director
  24. Jaffa-Gate (1982) — Director
  25. Mumbles (2010) — Director
  26. Brand New Triathlon (2003) — Director
  27. Haunted House (2014) — Director
  28. Rocka-Lula-Hula (2009) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Running Time (1974) — Detective
  2. Think Before You Think: A Portrait of Rick Raxlen (2020) — Self