c/ Carl Brown-Speaker’s Bio

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Internationally acclaimed as Canada’s master visual alchemist, Carl Brown has been producing materially oriented work since he was fifteen.  Etching his identity onto the emulsion, he creates a unique visual syntax by deconstructing the film surface. His distinctive techniques lend striking vibrancy to the medium, and include hand-processing, toning and tinting high contrast black and white film stock, liquid emulsion, reticulation, and stacking and dried crystal bleach formations.

“Memory Fades”, 2009,  Carl Brown

Carl’s visually stunning films have screened at the Louvre, the Musée de Beaux Arts, Musée de l’Orangerie, the Museum of Modern Art, the Sao Paulo Biennale, the Madrid Bienal de la Imagen en Novimento, the recent retrospective in Seoul. His latest masterpiece, Memory Fade, made its world debut in Paris at the Georges Pompidou Centre, before screening at the Jeu de Paume: Recontres Internationales Paris /Berlin /Madrid.

Marked by breathtaking colour and a meditative rhythm, Carl’s unique style is celebrated in numerous reviews and publications. In France, Carl Brown’s text, “After: Beginner’s Alchemy to Materials”, is required reading for the MFA in History of Cinema programs. His devotion to materially oriented filmmaking is evident by his influence on many emerging artists. He has taught film theory and filmmaking workshops at the Louvre, L’École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux, Kodak House in Rochester, the San Francisco School of Art and Design, and the Banff Centre For The Arts.

Carl also works as a photographer, holographer and writer. His creative collaborations with Michael Snow include Triage.

Written by Josephine Massarella

Please visit     http://www.cebrown.org/