Brett Kashmere
Filmmaker, Writer, Curator, Publisher
brettkashmere@yahoo.com
www.brettkashmere.com


Updated September 2011

Education
MFA in Studio Arts (Film Production Option), Concordia University, Montreal, 2006
MA in Film Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, 2004
» Thesis: Freedom of Expression: John Coltrane, Stan Brakhage, & the American Avant-Garde, 1957-67           
BA cum laude, Major in Film & Video Studies, Minor in English, University of Regina, Regina, SK, 2000
Studies for BFA in Film & Video Production, University of Regina, Regina, SK, 1995-2000


Employment History
Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, 2008-present
» Undergraduate Courses Taught: Sound & Image Workshop, Advanced Media Production, Cinema Studies Practicum, Documentary Workshop, Exhibition Practices in the Media Arts, Space / Time / Media, Remixing the Archive: Techniques of Appropriation, Avant-Garde Cinema: Theory and Practice

Instructor of record for the Filmmaking II: Experimental film production course at Concordia University, 2005-06
Website Consultant and Copywriter, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, 2005
Teaching Assistant for the Filmmaking II: Documentary Approaches course at Concordia University, 2004-05
Studio / Research Assistant for the filmmaker Richard Kerr, Montreal, 2001-06
Teaching Assistant, MA in Film Studies programme, Concordia University, 2000-2001
Gallery Assistant, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK, 1999
Film Theatre Assistant, Regina Public Library Film Theatre, Regina, SK, 1999
Gallery Assistant, Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre, Regina, SK, 1998-2000
Projectionist / Technician, Audio-Visual Services, University or Regina, 1998-2000


Filmography (Selected)
The Fifth Quarter, HD video, work-in-progress
Valery’s Ankle, digital video, 33 minutes, b&w and color, sound, 2006
Frames and Leaves, 35mm film, 3 minutes, color, silent, 2006
unfinished passages, digital video, 17 minutes, b&w, sound, 2005
When Canadians Attack, digital video, 4 minutes, color, sound, 2004
Hollywood Décollage, Collaboration: Richard Kerr, digital projection, 9 minutes, color, sound, 2004
up with nothing, 16mm film, 5 minutes, b&w, sound, 2002


Screenings and Exhibitions (Selected)
Psycho-Geography, Other Cinema, San Francisco, Curator: Craig Baldwin, 2011
The Sports Show, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Curator: Ben Russell, 2010
We Do Not Remember, We Rewrite History: An Evening with Brett Kashmere, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY, 2008
Arena: The Art of Hockey, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, 2008
Double Visions, British Film Institute, London, England, 2008
Superfan, Artengine, Ottawa, ON, 2008
NO CUTS. NO SPLICES. A selection from the One Take Super 8 Event, The Images Festival, Toronto, Curator: Alex Rogalski, 2008
Game On!, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON, Curator: Sarah Beveridge, 2008
New Prairie Cinema, WNDX: Winnipeg Festival of Film and Video Art, Winnipeg, 2008
O Canada, University of California at San Diego, 2008
Brett Kashmere: Carte Blanche du Canada, Cinema Project @ New American Art Union, Portland, OR, 2007
Documentary Reframed: Process, Politics and Aesthetics, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, SK, Curator: Maureen Latta, 2007
Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2007
From Looking to Telling, The Images Festival, Toronto, 2007
Surmises, Chicago Underground Film Festival, 2007
Animal Instincts, Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, 2007
The Cult of the Mustache & Other Cultural Phenomena, PDX Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, Portland, OR, 2007
Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois, Montreal, 2007
Winters of Discontent, Available Light Screening Collective @ SAW Video, Ottawa, 2007
video_dumbo, Brooklyn, 2007
Syracuse International Film Festival, Syracuse, NY, 2007
Rewriting History, Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Kassel, Germany, 2006
Made in Video: International Video Art Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006
Distance and Displacement, London Film Festival, London, England, Curator: Mark Webber, 2006
Devil on the Canvas, Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, BC, 2006
New Prairie Cinema: Horizon, WNDX: Winnipeg Festival of Film and Video Art, Winnipeg, 2006
Xalapa Animation and Experimental Film Festival, Xalapa, Mexico, Curator: Michael Rollo, 2006
Brett Kashmere: Crossing the Line, Concordia University, 2006
Aurora Picture Show, Houston, Texas, 2006
Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, BC, 2005
Calgary International Film Festival, Calgary, Alberta, 2005
Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, New York City, 2004
The U.S. Without Us, Small Change @ Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, 2004
Saskatchewan Experimental Cinema, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, curated by Jason Britski, 2003


Prizes, Awards and Commissions (Selected)
Canada Council for the Arts, Film and Video Production Grant, 2010
Oberlin College Faculty Research Grant, 2009
Artist Residency, Experimental Television Center (ETC), Owego, NY, 2008
Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant for Arthur Lipsett Retrospective and Tour, France, 2007
Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival: Nominee, Golden Sheaf Award - Documentary P.O.V., 2007
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois: Nominee, Le Prix Pierre et Yolande Perrault pour le meilleur espoir documentaire, 2007
Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant for Kassel Documentary Festival, Germany, 2006
Film commission, part of Short & Wide, Niagara Custom Lab, Toronto, 2006
Fondation de Sève Graduate Award in Film Production, Concordia University, 2006
Research Grant, Centre interuniversitaire des arts mediatiques (CIAM), 2005
Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant for Seoul Net & Film Festival, Korea, 2005
Masters Fellowship, Power Corporation of Canada, Quebec, 2004
Henry P. and Thomas R. Schreiner-National Film Board of Canada: Research/Production Grant in Documentary, 2003
Graduate Studio Arts Advisory Committee, Incoming Student Award, Concordia University, 2003 
Saskatchewan Arts Board: Individual Assistance C-Grant, 2003
SaskFilm & Video Development Corporation: Film Production Grant, 2002
Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative: Film Production Grant, 2002
Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative: Film Production Grant, 2000
Best Critical Thought, National Student Film & Video Festival, 1998


Collections
Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto
Hot Docs Documentary Festival: Online Documentary Library
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
New York University, New York
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
University of Alberta, Calgary
Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg
Vtape, Toronto
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON


Reviews / Press (Selected)
Lizzie Conner, "Focus Group Screenings Bring Experimental Film To A Living Room Near You," The Oberlin Review (April 11, 2011).
Ryan Simmons, "Interview with Brett Kashmere: Regarding the 'Escarpment School,'" Cineflyer (October 31, 2010).
Michael Sicinsky, "Top Tens of the Decade: Valery's Ankle," Cinemascope 42 (Spring 2010): 60.
Will Roane, "On the Record: INCITE! Journal," The Oberlin Review (April 16, 2010).
Gabby Moser, "Interview with Brett Kashmere: Inciting quarter-life nostalgia," Images Festival Blog (April 10, 2009).
Laurel Fuson, “Kashmere Aims to Pique Student Interest and Broaden Horizons,” The Oberlin Review (February 29, 2008),
Brian Kennedy, “Filmmaker Ponders Hockey Violence,” Inside Hockey (2008).
Leigh Blenkhorn, "MacLaren scores with two hockey exhibits," The Barrie Advance (December 18, 2008).
Nancy Keefe Rhodes, “Interview with Brett Kashmere,” Stylus Magazine (May 2007).
Sean Rogers, “Valery’s Ankle,” Broken Pencil Magazine 35 (2007): 62
Aaron Mesh, “Canadian Thug Life: Brett Kashmere at Art Union,” Williamette Week (April 24, 2007).
Michael Sicinsky, “Valery’s Ankle,” TheAcademicHack.net (2007).
Nancy Keefe Rhodes, “Brett Kashmere: Canadian filmmaker at home in Syracuse,” Syracuse City Eagle (April 19, 2007), p. 3.
Antoine Tedesco, “Valery’s Ankle: 1972 Canada-Russia Summit Series erodes the Canadian hockey mythos,” SceneandHeard.ca, vol. 7, no. 1 (March 27, 2007).
Maureen Latta, Documentary Reframed: Process, Politics, And Aesthetics (Saskatoon: PAVED Arts, 2007), pp. 5-6.
Thomas Waugh, The Romance Of Transgression In Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas (Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006), p. 211.
Randall King, “Going Underground,” Winnipeg Free Press (October 2006).


Published Writing (Selected)

"Seen Missing: The Case of Kitch's Last Meal," Millennium Film Journal 54 (Summer 2011), special issue on the films of Carolee Schneemann, ed. Kenneth White.

“In Pursuit of Northern Light: Tracking Canada’s Living Cinema,” Live Cinema: A Contemporary Reader, ed. Thomas Beard (forthcoming).  Co-written with Astria Suparak.

 “Individual Group Experiences and Unusual Acts of Kindness: An Interview with Astria Suparak (On Touring),” A Microcinema Primer: A Brief History of Small Cinemas, eds. Ed Halter and Andrea Grover (forthcoming).

"'At First Cozy, Became Transgressive: An Interview with Aleesa Cohene," INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics No. 2 (2010): 52-58.

“Valery’s Ankle,” "SUDDEN DEATH - Bilder av ishockey," Scopium no. 1 (2009), ed. Valdemar Lindekrantz.

“Animating Inspiration: Notes on Regeneration,” ReGenerations - New Animations on Seminal Films (Toronto: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, 2008).

“That Reminds Me of Something: Obscured Referents, Approximate Indices & Counter-Archival Practice,” The Curatorial Incubator v.5: What’s Up Doc? Video and Animation (Toronto: Vtape, 2008), pp. 36-42.

“Against the Current: An Interview with Karl Lemieux (and Daichi Saito),” INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics No. 1 (2009): 69-88.

"Flip Sides of Len Lye: Direct Cinema / Cinema Direct," Senses of Cinema Film Journal 43 (April-June 2007).

“Free Associating Around Whoever Fights Monsters: Semi-Random Thoughts on (a) Film, Jazz and Improvisation, In No Particular Order (Then Again, Maybe So),” Sound in Cinema and Beyond, edited by Randolph Jordan, Synoptique Film Journal, Hors-série No. 1 (2007).  

“Une charge positive: le collectif Double Négatif,” Esse arts + opinions magazine 57 (Spring-Summer 2006): 38-39.

INDUSTRIE / INDUSTRY: Oeuvres récentes / Recent works by Richard Kerr, DVD-format exhibition catalog, edited byBrett Kashmere (Montréal: Concordia University, 2005).

"Underground Film, Into the Light: Two Sides of the Projected Image in American Art 1945-1975," Synoptique Film Journal 8 (16 March 2005).  Special issue on experimental cinema.  

"Telling Time: Essays of a Visionary Filmmaker, by Stan Brakhage," book review, Canadian Journal of Film Studies 14, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 101-104.  Special issue on Stan Brakhage.  

"Len Lye" and "Hot Docs," entries in The Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, ed. Ian Aitken (London: Routledge, 2005). 

"R. Bruce Elder: In the Realm of Mystery and Wonder," Take One Magazine 45 (March-June 2004): 36-39. 

"Arthur Lipsett," Senses of Cinema Film Journal (July 2004).

"Notes from Underground: Coltrane, Brakhage and the American Avant-Garde," Offscreen Film Journal (April 2003).   

"Collage d'Hollywood," Protée: Journal of Semiotic Theory and Practice 31, no. 1 (Fall 2003): 48. Published by Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.

"The In/Visible Architecture of Everyday Life: Nikki Middlemiss' Sky Lines," Centre des arts actuels Skol 2002-2003, exhibition catalogue (Montréal: Centre des arts actuels Skol, 2003), pp. 12-13.

"Making the Anonymous Familiar: A Reconsideration of Jack Chambers' Circle," The Films of Jack Chambers, ed. Kathryn Elder (Toronto: Cinematheque Ontario, 2002), pp. 67-85.

"Jack Chambers," Senses of Cinema Film Journal (2002).




Curated Exhibitions and Screenings (Selected)

The Road Ended at the Beach and Other Legends: Parsing the 'Escarpment School'
Four-part film series, Winnipeg Cinematheque, November 2010 - May 2011
Touring to: DIM Cinema @ Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver; CinemaSpace, Montreal; TIFF Cinematheque, Toronto; Fall 2011

Saturn Returns
Screening and launch of INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics, The Images Festival, Toronto
Toured to: Available Light @ Club SAW, Ottawa, April 2009

That Reminds Me of Something
Video program, produced by Vtape for the Curatorial Incubator v.5: Video Animation, Toronto, February 2008

Arthur Lipsett: About Time, A Film Retrospective
Traveling film exhibition, Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, France, 2007
Toured to: Espace Multimedia Gantner, Burgundy; École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris; Light Cone, Paris; Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium; Winnipeg Cinematheque

Winter Light
Film screening, created for The Warehouse Gallery to accompany the exhibition Embracing Winter, Syracuse, NY, 2007
Co-curator: Astria Suparak
          
Tracks + Gestures: Audio Visions from Up North
New experimental film and cinematic video from Canada and Quebec, video_dumbo, Brooklyn, 2006
Toured to: Foreman Art Gallery at Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, QC; Syracuse University; Winnipeg Cinematheque
        
Original Copy
Film screening, commissioned by Synoptique Film Journal, Main Hall at Mile End Cultural Centre, Montreal, 2005

TROUBLE: Hollywood viewed by the Avant-Garde
Film screening, commissioned to accompany the exhibition INDUSTRY: Recent works by Richard Kerr, Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal, January 2005
Co-curator: Astria Suparak

INDUSTRY: Recent works by Richard Kerr
Traveling expanded cinema exhibition, Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal, November 2004 - January 2005
Toured to: The Images Festival, Toronto; Seoul Net & Film Festival, Seoul, Korea

How To Be A Canadian
Video program, commissioned by Eyebeam for the Panorama Screening Series, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, New York, November 2004
Toured to: Small Change @ Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia; Aurora Picture Show, Houston; Winnipeg Cinematheque
Co-curator: Astria Suparak



Presentations, Lectures and Discussions (Selected)

Lecture: "Curating and Context," Winnipeg Film Group, 2010

Artist Talk: New York State Summer School for the Arts, Oswego, NY

Lecture: "All Samples Cleared! Transforming Archives through Hybrid Interfaces," hella hybrid lecture series, Cleveland Institute of Art, 2009

Guest Speaker: Christina Battle's Frame x Frame class, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, 2009

Guest Speaker: Dorothea Braemer's Media Curating Class, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 2009

Lecture: "The Fifth Quarter: A Secret History of Basketball," BYO.PPT: Eclectic Lightning Lectures, Encyclopedia Destructica Studio, Pittsburgh, 2008

Guest Instructor and Critic: Department of Transmedia, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2007

Visiting Artist: Portland Film & Video Artists’ Collective, Portland, ME, 2007

Panel Presentation: “Lessons from Valery’s Ankle,” Canada & the League of Hockey Nations: Critical Perspectives on Hockey in Canada and Beyond, Victoria BC, 2007

Presentation: “Arthur Lipsett and His Influence,” École d’art Gérard Jacot, Belfort, France, 2007

Guest Speaker: Emily Vey Duke’s Transmedia Colloquium, Syracuse University, 2006

Seminar Instructor: Developing a Curatorial Practice: Approaches to Film & Video Exhibition, Concordia University, 2005

Round Table Discussion and Screening: The Relationship of Film Studies to Film Production, Film Studies Association of Canada Graduate Colloquium, Université de Montréal, 2005

Panel Presentation: “The 1972 Canada-Soviet Summit Series and the Shaping of Canada’s Modern Identity,” History in the Making 9: Gender-Modernity, Concordia University, 2004

"'The movie is not the medium; it is the organizing principle:' Some Thoughts on the Digital / Collage Interface," Crossing Over: Negotiating Specialization in an Interdisciplinary Culture, Regina SK, 2001

Panel Presentation: “Playing Fast, Making Strange: Defamiliarization in the Work of John Coltrane and Stan Brakhage,” Film Studies of Canada Graduate Colloquium, Carleton University, Ottawa, 2001

Panel Presentation: “Ghost in the Machine: The Act of Video in Atom Egoyan’s Speaking Parts,” Film Studies of Canada Graduate Colloquium, Concordia University, 2000


 

Selected Film and Video Work      
Archival Researcher: The Arthur Lipsett Project: A Dot on the Histo-map (Eric Gaucher, 2007, digital video, 52 minutes)
Researcher / Grant Writer: Embodied Time, documentary about the artist Carolee Schneemann (Marielle Nitoslawska, in-progress) 
Editor: Le Bombardement le port des perles (Richard Kerr, 2004, 35mm to digital video, 9 minutes)
Editor: collage d'hollywood (Richard Kerr, 2003, 35mm, 9 minutes)


Professional Activities
Recommender: Creative Capital, Film and Video Grants, 2010
Programmer: Sight Lines: Dialogues in Film & Media, screening and lecture series, Oberlin College, 2010
Programmer: Viewing Positions: Contemporary Cinema in Context, screening and lecture series, Oberlin College, 2009
Founding Editor and Publisher: INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics, 2008
Media Arts Juror: Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH, 2008
Panelist: New York Foundation for the Arts, Emerging Artist Focus Group, 2007
Founding Director: The Antechamber Art Gallery & Cinematheque, Regina, SK, 1999-2000


Service to the Community
Founding Member: Dock Ellis Perforated Head Society, bi-monthly screening series, Pittsburgh, 2010-
Coordinator: Cinema 062, weekly microcinema, Oberlin, OH, 2010
Coordinator: Pioneer Species, weekly microcinema, Oberlin, OH, 2009
Co-organizer: The Syracuse One Take Super 8 Event, Funk’n Waffles, Syracuse, NY, 2007
Founding Member: Syracuse Experimental (Film & Media Workshop), Syracuse, NY, 2006
Programmer: Artist talks and screenings by David Gatten, Jacqueline Goss, Bruce McClure, Alex MacKenzie, Leighton Pierce, Tom Sherman, and Astria Suparak, Concordia University, Montreal, 2003-2006
Co-organizer: The Montreal One Take Super 8 Event, Mile End Cultural Centre, Montreal, 2005
Admissions Jury: MFA in Film Production programme, Concordia University, 2004
Co-organizer: Interdisciplinary Exchange Days, Concordia University, 2004
Student Representative: Graduate Studio Arts Advisory Committee, Concordia University, 2004
Co-organizer: New Ways of Seeing: 3rd Film Studies Association of Canada Graduate Colloquium, Concordia University, 2001
Associate Coordinator / Programmer: 14th National Student Film & Video Festival, Regina, SK, 2000
Jury Member: Youth Video Competition, Festival of Words, Moose Jaw, SK, 1999
Steering Committee Member: YWCA Stop Racism Campaign, Regina, SK, 1999
Associate Coordinator and Programmer: 13th National Student Film & Video Festival, Regina, SK, 1999
President: Regina Film and Video Students’ Society, University of Regina, 1998
Co-organizer: Foureightysix film festival, Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative, Regina, SK, 1998