David Rimmer

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper (1970) — Director
2. Canadian Pacific I (1974) — Director
3. Surfacing on the Thames (1970) — Director
4. Real Italian Pizza (1971) — Director
5. Watching for the Queen (1973) — Director
6. Blue Movie (1970) — Director
7. Bricolage (1984) — Director
8. An Eye for an Eye (2003) — Director
9. Canadian Pacific II (1975) — Director
10. Shades of Red (1982) — Director
11. Migration (1969) — Director
12. Treefall (1970) — Director
13. The Dance (1970) — Director
14. Narrows Inlet (1980) — Director
15. Seashore (1971) — Director
16. As Seen on TV (1986) — Director
17. Fracture (1973) — Director
18. Along the Road to Altamira (1986) — Director
19. Local Knowledge (1992) — Director
20. Jack Wise: Language of the Brush (1998) — Director
21. Gathering Storm (2003) — Director
22. Square Inch Field (1968) — Director
23. Head/​End (1967) — Director
24. Black Cat, White Cat It's a Good Cat if it Catches the Mouse (1990) — Director
25. Landscape (1969) — Director
26. Al Neil: A Portrait (1979) — Director
27. Codes of Conduct (1997) — Director
28. Roadshow (1987) — Director
29. Sisyphus (1985) — Director
30. On the Road to Kandahar (2003) — Director
31. Know Place (1967) — Director
32. Collective (2008) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)