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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-01-20 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Vancouver, Canada

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.

Known For

Acting

1985

Directing

2003

An Eye for an Eye as Director
Gathering Storm as Director

1997

Codes of Conduct as Director

1992

Local Knowledge as Director

1987

Roadshow as Director

1986

As Seen on TV as Director

1985

Sisyphus as Director

1984

Bricolage as Director

1982

Shades of Red as Director

1980

Narrows Inlet as Director

1979

1975

1974

Canadian Pacific I as Director

1973

Fracture as Director

1971

Real Italian Pizza as Director
Seashore as Director

1970

Blue Movie as Director
Treefall as Director
The Dance as Director

1969

Migration as Director
Landscape as Director

1968

Square Inch Field as Director

1967

Head/​End as Director

Camera

1998

Jack Wise: Language of the Brush as Director of Photography

1973

Box-A-Rama as Camera Operator

Editing

Production

1982

Shades of Red as Producer

Visual Effects

2003

Writing

Crew