Oliver Husain, Toronto
CONTACT: write to oliver(at)husain(dot)de
| STATEMENT |
| "I often begin with a portrait of a person or place. The outcome is a video or film, a text or a textile; something foldable that can be stored away easily, or something standing on thin chopstick legs. Something that might collapse under the eyes of the viewer - in a film, this could be its fragile narrative structure. So the viewers are left with holding up their side by themselves. In this way, I am constructing attractive traps." |
| BIO |
| Oliver Husain is a filmmaker and artist based in Toronto. - After studying film and media art in Offenbach, Germany and Baroda, India, he started working as a music video director, producing acclaimed clips for sensorama, isolee, blaze and others in collaboration with Michael Klöfkorn from 1997 to 2002. With Claus Richter and Sergej Jensen he formed the theatre troupe Da Group, performing musical plays with numerous collaborators. In 2003, his video Q was awarded with the National German Film award for best experimental short film. In 2004/05, he produced a series of travelogues in China, Indonesia and India, titled Swivel, Shrivel and Squiggle, which screened at many international film festivals and exhibitions. In 2008, he was a featured filmmaker at the Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate, New York. In 2009, his screening performance Purfled Promises was presented at Live Film! Jack Smith! Festival, Berlin. His exhibition Hovering Proxies was shown at the AGYU, Toronto in 2010. |
| distributors: |
| arsenal experimental |
| vtape |
| dvds (for home use): |
| a-musik |
| pro qm |
| dvds (educational use): |
| vtape |