Artists from Canada

Stephen Broomer

Stephen Broomer (b. 1984) is a filmmaker and film preservationist. He holds a BFA in Film and Video Production, an MA in Film Studies, and a PhD in Communication & Culture, his dissertation a study of the origins of the Canadian avant-garde film. He has given public presentations of his film restoration work at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Canadian Film Institute, and his own films have screened at Views from the Avant-Garde, TIFF Wavelengths, and the Berlin Directors Lounge.

Nationality:
Canada
Carl E.Brown

Carl E. Brown (b.Toronto, 1959) is a canadian filmmaker, photographer and writer. After two years at the University of Toronto where he studied philosophy and psychology, he decided to study filmmaking, completed in 1982 at Sheridan College. He's completed nearly twenty films which have been screened in many festivals in America, Europe and Asia, and were part of the retrospective Experience chromatiques le cinema contemporain at the Louvre in 1995.
Nationality:
Canada
Dan Browne

Dan Browne is a filmmaker, photographer and multimedia artist based in Toronto, Canada. His works explore patterns, nature, and sensory perception through dense and kinetic forms. Dan's works have been presented at over one hundred festivals and venues worldwide, including Rotterdam International Film Festival, Art Cinema OFFoff, Diagonal Film Archive, Centre Georges Pompidou, Festival du nouveau cinéma, and TIFF Cinematheque.
Nationality:
Canada
Jack Chambers

John 'Jack' Chambers (March 25, 1931–April 13, 1978) was a Canadian artist and filmmaker. Born in London, Ontario, Chambers' painting style shifted from surrealist-influenced to photo-realist. He began working with film in the 1960s, completing six by 1970. Stan Brakhage proclaimed Chambers' The hart of London as 'one of the greatest films ever made.'Brakhage, 123
Nationality:
Canada
Barbara Sternberg

Toronto filmmaker Barbara Sternberg (b.Toronto, Ontario, 24 April 1945) has been making films since the mid-seventies. Her films have been screened widely across Canada as well as internationally at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, Kino Arsenal in Berlin, The Museum of Modern Art and Millennium Workshop in New York, and the Ontario Cinematheque, Toronto. Her work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada.
Nationality:
Canada
Joyce Wieland

Joyce Wieland (June 30, 1931 – June 27, 1998) was a Canadian experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist. Joyce Wieland was an experimental filmmaker and artist, whose work challenged and bridged boundaries among avant garde film factions of her time. Her works introduced a kind of manual manipulation of the filmstrip that inscribed an explicitly female craft tradition into her films, while also playing with the facticity of photographed images.

Nationality:
Canada
Steven Woloshen

Steven Woloshen (born 1960) in Montreal, is a film animator and a pioneer of drawn on film animation.
Nationality:
Canada