David Rimmer
b. 1942
David Rimmer is recognised as one of the most important experimental filmmakers working in Canada today. Twice nominated for the Canadian Govenor General’s Award in media arts, Rimmer has produced over 40 films from experimental to documentary, to dance, to music, to portraits of artists . His work has been screened at many prestigious festivals around the world, and is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, the National Gallery of Canada and many more. “Al Neil/A Portrait is more than a documentary profile of a man engaged in a life and death struggle with his genius and his obsessions. While the narrative thread is centred around pathos, the film represents a coming to terms with what these generalizations really mean....The many personas of Al Neil: the private, intoxicated and poetic man, the public performer and musician, and the family outcast. Rimmer’s integration of these levels is masterful.” “For more than thirty years, David Rimmer has been making some of the most exquisite work in the fringe microverse. He has the uncanny ability to take small moments - the view from a window, the tiniest scrap…
Films