The Image Before Us: A History of Film in British Columbia – Take 4
Screening Dates
  • March 26, 2018 6:30

David Rimmer emerged from the vibrant avant-garde scene of late-’60s/early-’70s Vancouver as a film artist of international stature, creating a distinctive, meticulous, insistently beautiful body of work rooted in the rigours of structuralist/​materialist cinema but also fascinated with poetic and metaphoric expression. In recent years, the archive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles has been working on a major project to restore Rimmer’s work—an important recognition of this visionary Canadian artist’s contribution to the cinema. Tonight’s program of Rimmer’s films includes many original 16mm prints from The Cinematheque’s own collection, and has been curated by Vancouver filmmaker Richard Martin, who has selected works in response to the theme(s) of ​“The Image Before Us.”

Landscape • 1969 • 8 min. Treefall • 1970 • 5 min. Fracture • 1973 • 10 min. Canadian Pacific • 1974 • 9 min. Canadian Pacific II • 1975 • 9 min. Narrows Inlet • 1980 • 10 min. Local Knowledge • 1992 • 33 min.

Guest curated by Richard Martin.