Carl E. Brown (b.Toronto, 1959) is a canadian filmmaker, photographer and writer. After two years at the University of Toronto where he studied philosophy and psychology, he decided to study filmmaking, completed in 1982 at Sheridan College. He's completed nearly twenty films which have been screened in many festivals in America, Europe and Asia, and were part of the retrospective Experience chromatiques le cinema contemporain at the Louvre in 1995.
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21 October 2007
"A good friend of mine died at 9:10 a.m. Saturday, July 21, 2007... my film piece is called "Quiet Chaos of Desire" it comes out of my experience in a sideward glance at my father in-laws passing and the resulting pain for my wife, then the resulting understanding and strength that has arisen from this between us.
24 October 2006
Monet is an artist that I have always greatly admired. His use of colour through water and sky to convey his emotional state has had a great influence on me.
01 January 1990
Re: Entry is a film in which fear and anxiety are transplanted with techniques of relaxation. This cross-connection gives birth to a field of unexplored emotion.
01 January 1994
"'Brownsnow' presents a fascinating combination of two artistic visions: Carl Brown's and Michael Snow's.
01 January 2010
A short video documentary by Barbara Sternberg, approximating the dual-screen approach of the titular filmmaker.
02 September 1982
A child is given birth in the womb of its dead mother. Child’s eyes perceive the death of a city. The last birth combined with the fire and destruction.
01 January 1987
"Condensation is an aggregation of moments that appear like crossroads or intersections. The moments when things happen to you.
01 January 2003
"Carl Brown makes celluloid dance. [His] new film work will burn colours so deeply into your brain, you'll be watching a light show inside your eyelids for hours.
01 January 1999
Canada's king of visual alchemy teams up with France's mistress of minimalism to fashion a photo-based work of cinematic abstraction.
01 January 1991
A man counting sheep as he sleeps. I have never seen sheep as I sleep. The sheep relax the man, he falls into a deep sleep.
01 June 2009
"The images of “Memory Fade” are not lost… they are spectral and the dance steps repeated over and over in time fights the Fade – a falling down that breaks the spine of the book of life (mankind).
01 January 1985
A painful but enlightening film on the controversial subject of mental illness - or more particularly, the myth of mental illness.
01 January 2003
the fishing boats are out in the water the fish are caught. brought into shore the men haul the catch off the boat.
01 January 1993
Cindy was asleep under a maple tree/ Rolled over and said to me/ I dreamt of Air Cries/ I turned over, we were lying on the the/ dry cracked mud of a river bed/ Empty Water/ Puppies, Air Cries Only/ They don’t make a sound/ My eyes on fire with nothing/ to quell them/ A piece of steel in the heart/.
03 October 1997
The story is the closure, the film is how pain and anxiety are carried by the wind. There is no use trying to exert control, it only causes the pain/anxiety to linger.
01 January 1989
As the wheel turns, the religion of the body moves to and through the physical into the psychological.
22 April 2004
A dual-projection film where each director made 30 minutes of film without knowledge of what the other was making.
01 January 1980
Life is like a gigantic phonograph record fifty feet across. Or like one of those whirling discs at the old amusement park.
01 January 1999
"This two-screen dual projector film extends Brown's use of chemically tortured celluloid to the breaking point.
01 January 1989
"'Drop' restages Newton's celebrated encounter with the heaviest and most voluptuous fruit of the vegetable kingdom.
31 December 1993
These images are oxidized residues, fixed by light and chemical elements, of living organisms. No plastic expression can ever be more than a residue of the experience.
22 October 1993
Second part of Brown's Air Cries 'Empty Water' trilogy.
04 October 1991
To Lavoisier Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991) is a collaboration with filmmaker Carl Brown, who specializes in homebrewed chemical film development.
