David Rimmer Trailers
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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.
Most Popular David Rimmer Trailers
Total trailers found: 32
01 January 1985
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
02 January 1971
"Taken between September 1970 and May 1971, with the unmoving camera apparently bolted to the window ledge, this film, a ten-minute eternity, chronicles what takes place within view of the lens.
03 January 1970
"Treefall" was originally made for a dance performance at the Vancouver Art Gallery, April, 1970. Structured in the form of two loops of high-contrast images of trees falling, reprinted and overlapped.
05 January 1970
David Rimmer's avant-garde classic takes a single film fragment of a factory worker unraveling a sheet of cellophane, and alters it through a mesmerizing series of spectral apparitions and alchemical and sonic permutations.
01 January 1986
The structure of the film alternates between looped, processed stock TV imagery and a blank, static blue screen.
01 January 1971
The basic image derives from a shot of women in (Edwardian era) dresses standing along the edge of the ocean.
10 March 1970
‘A beautiful, mysterious yet satisfying optical illusion…celebrates the early passing of a steam on the Thames.
01 January 2003
A hauntingly beautiful film about the world's flight into chaos. Rimmer has taken McLaren's camera-less technique to new heights.
01 January 1970
Blue Movie was made for the international Dome Show where it was projected down onto the muslin surface of David Rimmer's geodesic dome.
01 June 2003
One of Rimmer's early 2000s video works which he made by hand-painting 35mm film, running it on a flatbed viewer, and shooting it off the screen with a video camera to then subject it to further manipulation.
15 September 1982
Documentary about a collaboration between avant garde filmmaker David Rimmer and choreographer Paulo Ross.
01 January 2003
An experimental film by David Rimmer (2003) which was influenced by or done to be performed at 'Rave' concerts which Rimmer was fond of attending in the 2000's.
01 January 1980
Starting with a boat swaying on its anchor at the head of an inlet, a landscape of pilings, shore, and forest is slowly revealed by time-lapse photography as the morning fog lifts.
01 January 1987
Shot entirely using a Steadicam. A video version of a dance piece by the Karen Jamieson Dance Company.
04 January 1970
With an irresistible humour, Rimmer speculates in The Dance on the nature of the film loop. We see a (1920s) couple whilring around a dance floor at a dizzying pace.
01 January 1973
Gary Lee-Nova's comedic, anarchic boxing short.
01 January 1986
"The lateral movement of the title "Along the Road to Altamira" signals that we are about to embark on a journey through Spain.
01 January 1967
A film featuring sprocket holes and leader sections in montage.
06 May 1973
Watching for the Queen continued Rimmer's investigations of minimal narrative and the anonymous/autonomous shot.
01 January 1992
"David Rimmer's film is at once a somber and celebratory meditation on time and place. Its title, 'Local Knowledge', is marine terminology for what a skipper must know when navigating dangerous waters.
01 January 1969
"Whereas SQUARE INCH FIELD was composed largely in the camera, Rimmer's next film, MIGRATION, made full use of rear-projection rephotography, stop-framing, and slow motion.
06 July 1974
Canadian Pacific I is made up of a series of slowly dissolved shots done from the same framing over several months.
01 January 1969
Using fixed frame timelapse, 15 hours of a day in the mountains, showing the changes in the sea and sky, is compressed into eight minutes.
01 January 1979
An award winning 45-minute film portrait of Al Neil’s life, music and art. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
07 May 1973
Variously relaxed, apprehensive, or relieved, the fractured gestures of a woman and a baby are played backward and forward, frame by frame, like a musical phrase.
01 January 1984
A TV movie sequence is repeated in slow motion: the sound gradually gets out of sync with the image. The point moves on the soundtrack while the viewer anticipates the meeting of the image and sound.
01 January 1985
A video of a dance performance by the Karen Jamieson Dance Company.
01 January 1998
In this intriguing film, Jack Wise speaks very privately about his artistic process —'losing oneself in the language of the brush'— and what it means to be an artist.
01 January 1997
«CODES OF CONDUCT playfully upends the moral order by which man has historically seen fit to measure so called correct behaviour - by ironically re-positioning the rules, Rimmer uncovers their arbitrariness.
06 July 1975
Canadian Pacific II is designed as a companion piece to Canadian Pacific I. Shot from a window two e
01 January 1968
A rapid fire montage, a dynamic juxtaposition of the world’s vital and destructive forces, the title originating from a Chinese text which refers to the Third Eye.
01 January 1990
It explores the tension between age-old China and energy of the student demonstration in the spring of 1989.
