SELECTED VIDEO & FILM WORK
Teilhard Frost: Pat Do This, Fare Thee Well You Green Fields [Music Videos], 2024
The Gertrudes: Carry On [Music Video / Dance Film], 2024, Director, Cinematographer, Producer, Editor {Official Selection Tokyo International Short Film Festival 2024, Best Story at Experimental, Dance, and Music Film Festival 2024, Kingston Canadian Film Festival, Mar 2024, Best Dance Video at Munich Music Video Awards 2024, Art Film & Music Video Awards Nominee 2024}
City of Kingston Mayor’s Arts Awards Artist Profile Videos, Nov 2023, Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Michael C Duguay: King of Everything [Music Video], 2023, Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Good Fortune: Stick Around, [Animated Music Video], February 2023, Director, Animator, Editor {Kingston Canadian Film Festival March 2023; Best Direction Award – Experimental, Dance & Music Film Festival June 2023; International Animation Festival Golden Kuker – Sofia, May 2023}
Michael C Duguay: St Maybe, [Music Video], August 2022, Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Onhwéntsya táhnon Onkwawén:na / Aki miinawaa Gdi-nowendaaganag (Land and Language), [Kingston Indigenous Languages Nest Documentary], Jun 2022, Co-Directed with Shelby Lisk, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor {Skeleton Park Arts Festival Opening Night Screening}
City of Kingston Mayor’s Arts Awards Artist Profile Videos, Dec 2021, Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Kingston Grand Theatre Local Arts Residency Program Documentaries [Michael C. Duguay, Erin Ball, Emily Fennel, Gary Raspberry, Spencer Evans], Sept-Nov 2021, Director, Cinematographer, Editor
The Gertrudes: Parham [Animated Music Video in collaboration with collage artists Nancy Douglas], May 2021, Director, Animator, 3D Layout
Artists Are Essential [Commissioned Dance/Poem Film], April 2021, Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Motion Graphics
A Day Not Owned Here, Reversed – Movement Market Collective [Dance Film in collaboration with Kay Kenney & Darren Shaen], April 2021, Cinematographer, Director, Editor {New Wave Short Film Festival 2021, Best Dance Film Award Winner}
Uncovered [Accessibility Focused Circus Arts Performance Film], Dec 2020, Cinematographer, Editor, Captions
Suspended Disbelief [Heidy Latsky Dance Productions, Circus Arts Performance Film], Nov 2020, Co-Directed with Heidi Latsky, Cinematographer {International Dance Festival Disability 2021, American Dance Festival 2022}
R E V O L V I N G [Heidy Latsky Dance Productions, Circus Arts Performance Film], Nov 2020, Co-Directed with Heidi Latsky, Cinematographer, Editor {Tokyo International Short Film Festival 2021, Toronto Indie Filmmakers Festival 2021, Kingston Canadian Film Festival – Local Shorts People’s Choice Award 2022}
Disconnection Challenge [Short Documentary], Nov 2020, Editor, Motion Graphics, Producer
The Gertrudes: The Other Side [Animated Music Video], Oct 2020, Editor
Kyra & Tully: Take It Where It Goes [Music Video], Oct 2020, Cinematographer, Editor, Producer
Laci Elle: Siren [Music Video], Sept 2020, Underwater Cinematographer, Editor, Producer
Colleen Brown: The Olden Ways, It’s The End Of The World Again, Good Life, Gentle, Paradise [Music Video Series], Aug-Dec 2020, Editor, Animator
Michael C. Duguay: Unprecedent ep: Guns or Butter, Wild Water, Helen of Troy [three music performance videos], Oct 2020, DoP, Editor, Producer
Human Rights and Equity Office Overview [Explainer Video], Sept 2020, Cinematographer, Editor, Producer
The Gertrudes: Forced Eviction [Music Video], Jul 2020, Cinematographer, Editor
Skeleton Park Arts Fest: SPAF At Home Series [Online Artist Profiles & Performance Documentation], June 2020, DoP, Director, Editor
Rocket Surgery: You Know It’s Monday [Animated Music Video], May 2020, Director, Animator, Editor
Sarah Harmer: The Basement Sessions: Just Get Here, Take Me Out, St. Peter’s Bay [live performance videos], April 2020, DoP, Director, Editor
Kennedy Road: The Heart Will Buzz [Music Video], March 2020, Director, Editor
Sarah Harmer: St Peter’s Bay [Music Video], March 2020, Director, DoP, Editor
Sian Alcorn: Longing For The End [Music Video], 2020, Director, DoP, Editor
{World Premiere: Kingston Canadian Film Festival 2020}
Sadaf Amini: Dawn [Music Video], 2020, DoP, Animation Supervisor
{World Premiere: Kingston Canadian Film Festival 2020}
Positive Space 20th Anniversary, Queen’s University Human Rights & Equity Office [Short Documentary], 2019, Director, DoP, Editor
The Lighthouse [Indie Feature Length Horror Film, ~90min], Currently in production, Director of Photography, Assistant Director
City of Shadows [Animated Sequences for a TV Series, BellFibe], 2019, Animator
Blaxites [Narrative Short for Screening Surveillance, 12:24], 2019, Producer, Director, DP, Editor {Surveillance Studies Network Arts Award First Prize, 2020}
Who Is Bruce Kaufman? [Feature Anthology / Documentary Film] Limestone (Director) & Evolutions (Underwater Cinematography), 2018 {World Premiere: Kingston Canadian Film Festival 2019}
The Three Sisters [Documentary, 6:15min], 2017, Director, Editor, DP {Homebrew Award for Best Local Short: Epics, Kingston Canadian Film Festival 2018, Downtown Belleville DocFest 2018}
Manomin (Wild Rice) [Documentary, 7:47], 2017, Director, Editor, DP
Books Without Bosses [Between The Lines 40th Anniversary Documentary, 6min], 2017, Director, Editor, DP, Production Coordinator
Live in Kingston [Narrative Feature, 93min], 2017, Producer, Second Unit Camera {Kingston Canadian Film Festival 2017, Hamilton Film Festival 2017}
She Moves She – A Collaborative Tribute to Norm McLaren & Evelyn Lambert [Animated Short], 2017, Director, Animator, Editor {Kingston Canadian Film Festival 2017}
Entire Cities – Rock Chapel [Dance based Visual Album, 20min], 2016, Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Animator
Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call, Between the Lines 2015, Director, Editor, Motion Graphics
Half Girl / Half Face [Short Film, French 20:57, English 17:18], MediaSmarts, 2015, DoP, Editor
Danielle Lennon’s Erratic Nomad, 2014 – Animator, Director, Story, Editor {Kingston Canadian Film Festival 2015, Skeleton Park Arts Festival 2015, Kingston Arts Council Juried Salon 2015}
Bold Scientists [Micro-doc], Between the Lines, 2014 – Director, Editor, Motion Graphics
Transparent Lives: Surveillance in Canada // Vivre à nu: La surveillance au Canada [Short doc], The New Transparency, SSC Queen’s University, 2014 – Director, Editor, Motion Graphics, Soundtrack
Who’s Afraid of the Black Blocs? Anarchy in Action Around the World [Micro-doc], Between the Lines, 2014 – Director, Editor, Motion Graphics
Til The Cows Come Home [Feature Documentary], Milk-Pail Productions, 2014 – Titles & Motion Graphics
Georgette Fry Sings Etta James: The Story Behind The Show [Micro-doc] 2013 – Director, Editor, Camera
Unlikely Radicals: The Story of the Adams Mine Dump War – Charlie Angus [Micro-doc], Between the Lines, 2013
Director, DP, Editor, Motion Graphics
Lake Effect: Making Art in Kingston [Short Documentary], 2012 – Assistant Editor
Dala :: Lennon & McCartney [Music Video] 2012 – Camera, Animator and Director
Building Arts Communities in Kingston [Documentary, 20:51], Kingston Arts Council, 2012 – Director, Editor, Story
Rock Plaza Central :: Don’t You Believe The Words of Handsome Men [Music Video] 2010
Director, Animator {Kingston Canadian Film Festival 2010, Toronto Independent Film Festival 2010}
Kugluktuk [Short doc] 2010 – Editor, Assistant Director
Colin Munroe vs. Bob Dylan (re-vox): Who Killed Davey Moore [Digital and Stop Motion Animated Music Video] 2009 – Director, Animator, Motion Graphics
The Gertrudes: Blackbird and the Cedar [Music Video] 2009 – Animator, Assistant Director
Entire Cities: The Woods [Computer Animated Music Video] 2008 – Director and Animator {Big Pond Adelaide Film Festival, 2009}
SELECTED INSTALLATIONS, PERFORMANCES & EXHIBITIONS
HYDRA: The Spirit Of Water, Calliope Collective’s Art on Water Parade, Kingston Mills, Kingston, ON – Large floating sculptural puppet performance float featuring two large otters swimming in the air, 2023
Aqua Nova, The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, Kingston, ON – Multi-channel projected visual installation, performance & projection, in collaboration with Kay Kenney (dance), Sadaf Amini (composer, musician), and Don Maynard (artistic producer), 2022
Solo Flight Exhibition, Astoria Performing Arts Center, New York City, NY – Suspended Disbelief, single channel video installation created in collaboration with Heidi Latsky, 2021
Electric Circuits Festival of Electronic Music, Performance and Digital Art, The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, Kingston, ON – 2 hour live projected visual environment set for livestream accompanying DJ’s Melo-T and Kakaow, 2020
Next Door Exhibition, SPAF Kingston, ON – nistijanan, outdoor sculptural installation, with Corcoran Peppley, 2020
Skeye Projects: Floating Archives, Untitled (2019), Doug Fluhrer Park, Kingston, ON, projected video on flying/floating screen, curated by Don Maynard, 2019
Skeye Projects: Skeleton Park Arts Festival, 30 Island Lake Project, The Spire: 100,000 Poets Festival, Kingston, ON – Reeds (2007), She Moves She (2017), projection video on flying screen, curated by Don Maynard, 2018
Kingston Arts Council Juried Salon 2015, Kingston, ON – Erratic Nomad (stop motion animation + sculpture, with Andrea Graham, 2014)
Charles Spearin’s The Happiness Project, Kingston, ON – Anna (multimedia artwork installation with single channel video, dimensions variable, 2010)
Skeleton Park Music Festival 2008, Frog Belly Rat Bone (Thin Edge Puppets, created, directed and performed in an original puppet show based on Timothy Basil Ering’s book)
Contemporary Stations of the Cross, Auckland, NZ – Can you see the wind? (flash animation, 2009)
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
The Douglas J Falconer Award of Filmmaking Excellence, Kingston Canadian Film Festival 2024
Kingston Film Office & Tourism Kingston, Production Assistance Grant – The Gertrudes Music Video, 2024
Kingston Mayor’s Arts Awards: Creator Award – City of Kingston, 2022
Kingston Film Office, Production Assistance Grant – Good Fortune/Kelsey McNulty Music Video, 2022
Ontario Arts Council, Multi and Inter-Arts Projects – Calliope Collective: Hydra – A Story On Water, 2022
KCFF 2022, Local Shorts People’s Choice Award – R E V O L V I N G (Circus Performance Film), 2022
KCFF 2022, Local Shorts Jury Award – Name It After (Experimental Music Documentary, editor), 2022
Kingston Arts Council, Project Grant – Calliope Collective: Hydra – A Story On Water, 2022
Canada Council Travel & Research Grant – Calliope Collective goes to Bosch Parade! Den Bosch, Netherlands, 2022
The Ballytobin Foundation – Aqua Nova (Rehearsal and Workshop Space), 2022
Ontario Arts Council, Artists in Communities & Schools Projects – Calliope Collective: Hydra – A Story On Water, 2021
Kingston Arts Council, Project Grant – Calliope Collective: The Longest Night (Multi-Arts Events), 2021
The Isabel Bader Centre For The Performing Arts IMAGINE Program Creation Residency – Movement Market Collective: A Day Not Owned Here, Reversed, 2021
Kingston Arts Council, Project Grant – Aqua Nova Collective: Aqua Nova, 2020-2021
Kingston Arts Council, Project Grant – Calliope Collective: HYDRA (Water Parade), 2020-2021
Kingston Film Office, Production Assistance Grant – Sian Alcorn: Longing for the End, 2020
Kingston Arts Council, Project Grant – Kingston Filmmakers Collective: Ka’tarohkwi Languages Nest Documentary, 2019-2020
Kingston Film Office, Production Assistance Grant – Wild Play (Experimental Animated Short Research & Development)
Canadian Heritage: Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage — Calliope Collective Winter Solstice, 2019
The Ballytobin Foundation – Calliope Collective (Rehearsal and Workshop Space), 2018, 2019
Kingston Arts Council, Project Grants – Calliope Collective Midwinter Solstice & Midsummer’s Eve (Multi-Arts Event), 2018, 2019
Ontario Arts Council, Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Grant – Calliope Collective Winter Solstice (Multi-Arts Event), 2018
KCFF 2018, Homebrew Award for Best Local Short: Epics – The Three Sisters (Documentary), 2017
Kingston Arts Council, Project Grant – Live in Kingston (Feature Film), 2016
Nan Yeomans’ Legacy Award – Erratic Nomad (Animated Music Video), 2015
Charles Street Video – Audio Art Prize (Experimental Art Video), 2006
SELECTED WORKSHOPS – INSTRUCTOR
Gospel Choir Workshop, Cahoots Festival, Fingal, Ontario, May 2024
Stop-Motion Animation Workshop, Skeleton Park Arts Festival, Kingston, Ontario, February 2020
Film Industry Mixer, The Kingston Film Office & Kingston Canadian Film Festival, March 2019
Stop-Motion Animation Workshop, The Tett Centre, Kingston, Ontario, March 2017
Stop-Motion Animation Workshop, ISKA & Kingston Canadian Film Festival, Kingston, Ontario, 2016
Labyrinth Workshop, Cahoots Festival, Ontario, 2016
Week Long Stop-Motion Workshop, Blue Skies Arts Camp, Clarendon Station, Ontario, 2013 & 2014
Intro to Non-Linear Editing, Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston, Ontario, 2012
Stop-Motion Animation Workshop, Apple Crisp Music Festival, Kingston, Ontario, 2009
BOARDS // MEMBERSHIPS // JURIES
Art in Public Places Working Group – City of Kingston Committee Member, Kingston, Ontario, 2021 – Present
Calliope Collective – Production Manager, Technical Director, Writer & Director, Set & Puppet Builder, Kingston, Ontario, 2017 – Present
Local Music Working Group – City of Kingston Jury Member, Kingston, Ontario, 2023
Aqua Nova Collective – Filmmaker, Installation Artists, Co-Creator & Producer, Kingston, Ontario, 2020-2022
Nan Yeomans Grant Jury Member – Kingston Arts Council, 2020
Kingston Stilters – adjunct member, Kingston, Ontario, 2015 – Present
Paved Paradise Jury Member – City of Kingston Public Art Exhibition, Kingston, Ontario, 2018
Member of Modern Fuel Artist & New Media Workspace – Kingston, Ontario 2010–2017
Vimeo View-master Jury Member – Vimeo International Video Awards, 2012
Community Arts Jury Member – Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, ON 2010
Artistic Director / Screenings Curator – Apple Crisp Music Video Club, 2008-2012
Chair of the Board of Directors – Next Church, Kingston, Ontario 2008-2011
Member of Charles Street Video Artist Collective – Toronto, Ontario, 2006 – 2007
Member of Board of Directors – Golden Lake United Church Camp, Golden Lake, Ontario 2004 – 2009
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Bringing a Puppet To Life: 10 Day Puppet Creation Workshop with Matt Jackson, Figurteatret i Nordland, Stamsund, Norway, 2023
Pleasure Craft Operator Card, Canada, 2022
NABET On Set Training Workshop, Kingston Film Office, Kingston ON, 2018
Documentary Producer Workshop, DOC Institute, Belleville ON, 2017
Level 1 Kayaking Course – 1000 Islands Kayaking, Gananoque ON, 2017
Installations with MAX, InterAccess, Toronto ON, 2017
Introduction to the Adobe Digital Careers Curriculum, 2015
Universal Design for Learning: eLearning Module (AODA), 2013
The Royal Conservatory: Artist-Educator Professional Training, Level 1, 2011
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, ON, 2006, Graduated with Distinction
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute, 1999, Graduated with Honours
RELATED EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Video Production // Director // Production Manager // Principal, AKAFLK Productions, Kingston, ON, 2009-present
Professor // Motion Graphics & Animation, Video Production, Music and Digital Media, St Lawrence College, Kingston, ON, 2011-2023. Curriculum Mapping, Program and Course Development, 2016-2018, Academic Excellence Award Nomination, 2016
Animation/Multimedia Arts, and Studio Art Instructor, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario, Modern Fuel New Media Workspace, The Artel, Blue Skies Arts Camp, Make Art Camp, Sue’s Studio Pottery
Communications Director // Administrator, Kingston Arts Council, Kingston, ON 2009-2013
Production Assistant // Editor, Epstein Creative, Kingston, ON 2008-2009
Program Assistant to the Curator of Contemporary Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON, 2007 – 2008
Gallery School Technician & Audio Visual Counselor, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, 2005 – 2007
Audio/Visual Production Technician, Pandor Productions, VisualFX and others, Toronto, ON, 1995 – 2007
Program Coordinator // Music Director, Children’s Peace Theatre, Toronto, ON, 2003
Camp Director, Golden Lake UC Camp, Golden Lake, Ontario 2002 – 2004
SELECTED STUDIO RECORDINGS
The Gertrudes // accordion, bass, keyboards, trumpet // Unexpected Colours (2024), Just To Please You (2023), Emergency to Emergency (2021), Neighbourhood (2013), Till The Morning Shows Her Face To Me (2011), Sailor Song ep (with PS I Love You & Bruce Peninsula, 2010) Dawn Time Riot (2010), Hard Water (2009), The Gertrudes ep (2008)
Rueben deGroot & Rocket Surgery // accordion, keyboards, backing vocals, arrangements // Darkplace Ontario (2017), Live at the Toucan (2016), Pine (2011), Hey! (2009), The Winter of our Discotheque (2009)
Entire Cities // accordion, keyboards // Rock Chapel (2016), I Hope You Never Come Home (2010), Deep River (2007), Centralia ep (2005)
SELECTED MUSIC FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES
Josh Lyon – Cahoots Festival, Fingal, Ontario, May 2024
The Gertrudes, Rocket Surgery – Back To The Farm, MacKinnon Brothers Brewery, August 2022
The Gertrudes – Blue Skies Music Festival, Clarendon Station, Ontario, August 2022
Rocket Surgery – Skeleton Park Arts Festival, Kingston, Ontario, June 2019
Rocket Surgery – Blue Skies Music Festival, Clarendon Station, Ontario, August 2018
Rocket Surgery, Colleen Brown, Entire Cities – Skeleton Park Arts Festival, Kingston, Ontario, June 2016
Ramshackle Redemption – Cahoots Festival, Ridgetown, Ontario, 2016
Rocket Surgery, After The News – Music Westport, Westport, Ontario, August 2015
Rocket Surgery – Wolfe Island Music Festival, August 2014, Canada Day at Grass Creek Park, Ontario, July 2014
Ramshackle Redemption – Cahoots Festival, Sauble Beach, Ontario, 2014
The Gertrudes – ArtFest, Kingston, Ontario, July 2013, Skeleton Park Arts Festival, Kingston, Ontario, June 2013
The Gertrudes – Ontario Council of Folk Festivals, Mississauga, Ontario, 2012
The Gertrudes – SuperCrawl, Hamilton, Ontario, 2012
The Gertrudes – Vancouver Folk Festival, 2010, Vancouver Island Folk Festival, 2010 (featured in accordion workshop)
Rueben deGroot – Blue Skies Music Festival, Clarendon Station, Ontario, August 2010
Spook & Squash, Rueben deGroot – Skeleton Park Music Festival, Kingston, Ontario, 2010
Rueben deGroot – Elphin Roots Fest, Elphin, Ontario, 2009 & 2010, TOMMFest, Sydenham, Ontario, 2009 & 2010
Rueben deGroot – Skeleton Park Music Festival, Kingston, Ontario, 2009
Entire Cities, Rueben deGroot – Applecrisp Music Festival, Kingston, Ontario, 2009
The Gertrudes, Rueben deGroot – Ontario Council of Folk Festivals, Ottawa, Ontario, 2009
Rueben deGroot – Luminato Festival, Toronto Ontario (opening for Derek Trucks, Daniel Lanois), 2009
Rueben deGroot – Skeleton Park Music Festival, Kingston, Ontario, 2009
Entire Cities – Skeleton Park Music Festival, Kingston, Ontario, 2007