B R E T T /K A S H M E R E
Editor, INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics
Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Oberlin College
Filmmaker, Writer, Curator, Publisher
brettkashmere@yahoo.com
www.brettkashmere.com
Printable resume in PDF format (coming soon)
Updated July 2010
EDUCATION
2006 MFA in Studio Arts (Film Production Option), Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
2004 MA in Film Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
/////////////// //Thesis: Freedom of Expression: John Coltrane, Stan Brakhage, & the American Avant-Garde, 1957-67
2000 BA cum laude, Major in Film & Video Studies, Minor in English, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
1995-00 Studies for BFA in Film & Video Production, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
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 & EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2010
The Sports Show, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago (Curator: Ben Russell)
We Would Prefer Not To, Winnipeg Free Museum @ Platform Gallery, Winnipeg (Curator: Kendra Ballingall)
2008
We Do Not Remember, We Rewrite History: An Evening with Brett Kashmere, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Arena: The Art of Hockey, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS (Curator: Ray Cronin)
Double Visions, British Film Institute, London, England
Superfan, Artengine, Ottawa, ON
NO CUTS. NO SPLICES. A selection from the One Take Super 8 Event, The Images Festival, Toronto (Curator: Alex Rogalski)
Game On!, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON (Curator: Sarah Beveridge)
New Prairie Cinema, WNDX: Winnipeg Festival of Film and Video Art, Winnipeg
O Canada, University of California at San Diego
2007
Brett Kashmere: Carte Blanche du Canada, Cinema Project @ New American Art Union, Portland, OR
Documentary Reframed: Process, Politics and Aesthetics, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, SK (Curator: Maureen Latta)
Anthology Film Archives, New York
From Looking to Telling, The Images Festival, Toronto
Surmises, Chicago Underground Film Festival
Animal Instincts, Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto
The Cult of the Mustache & Other Cultural Phenomena, PDX Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, Portland, OR
Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois, Montreal
Winters of Discontent, Available Light Screening Collective @ SAW Video, Ottawa
video_dumbo, Brooklyn
Syracuse International Film Festival, Syracuse, NY
2006
Rewriting History, Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Kassel, Germany
Made in Video: International Video Art Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
Distance and Displacement, London Film Festival, London, England (Curator: Mark Webber)
Devil on the Canvas, Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, BC
New Prairie Cinema: Horizon, WNDX: Winnipeg Festival of Film and Video Art, Winnipeg
Xalapa Animation and Experimental Film Festival, Xalapa, Mexico (Curator: Michael Rollo)
Brett Kashmere: Crossing the Line, solo screening, Concordia University
PRIZES, AWARDS & COMMISSIONS (SELECTED)
2010
Canada Council for the Arts, Film and Video Production Grant
2009
Oberlin College Grant-in-Aid (Research Grant)
2007
Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant for Arthur Lipsett Retrospective and Tour, France
Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival: Nominee, Golden Sheaf Award - Documentary P.O.V.
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois: Nominee, Le Prix Pierre et Yolande Perrault pour le meilleur espoir documentaire
2006
Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant for Kassel Documentary Festival, Germany
Film commission, part of Short & Wide, Niagara Custom Lab, Toronto
Fondation de Sève Graduate Award in Film Production, Concordia University
2005
Research Grant, Centre interuniversitaire des arts mediatiques (CIAM)
Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant for Seoul Net & Film Festival, Korea
2004
Masters Fellowship, Power Corporation of Canada, Quebec
2003
Henry P. and Thomas R. Schreiner-National Film Board of Canada: Research/Production Grant in Documentary
Graduate Studio Arts Advisory Committee, Incoming Student Award, Concordia University
Saskatchewan Arts Board: Individual Assistance C-Grant
2002
SaskFilm & Video Development Corporation: Film Production Grant
Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative: Film Production Grant
2000
Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative: Film Production Grant
1998
Best Critical Thought, National Student Film & Video Festival
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)
"Top Tens of the Decade," Cinemascope 42 (Spring 2010): 60.
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).
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
“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).
“Valery’s Ankle,” "SUDDEN DEATH - Bilder av ishockey," Scopium no. 1 (2009), ed. Valdemar Lindekrantz.
“In Pursuit of Northern Light: Tracking Canada’s Living Cinema,” Live Cinema: A Contemporary Reader, ed. Thomas Beard (San Francisco: San Francisco Cinematheque, 2008). Co-written with Astria Suparak.
“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.
"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, ed. Brett Kashmere (Montréal: Telecine Editions and 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).
PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES, DISCUSSIONS
"All Samples Cleared! Transforming Archives through Hybrid Interfaces," hella hybrid lecture series, Cleveland Institute of Art, 2009
"The Fifth Quarter: A Secret History of Basketball," BYO.PPT: Eclectic Lightning Lectures, Encyclopedia Destructica Studios, Pittsburgh, 2008
“Lessons from Valery’s Ankle,” Canada & the League of Hockey Nations: Critical Perspectives on Hockey in Canada and Beyond, Victoria BC, 2007
“Arthur Lipsett and His Influence,” École d’art Gérard Jacot, Belfort, France, 2007
Round Table Discussion and Screening on the Relationship of Film Studies to Film Production, Film Studies Association of Canada Graduate Colloquium, Université de Montréal, 2005
“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
“Playing Fast, Making Strange: Defamiliarization in the Work of John Coltrane and Stan Brakhage,” Film Studies of Canada Graduate Colloquium, Carleton University, Ottawa, 2001
“Ghost in the Machine: The Act of Video in Atom Egoyan’s Speaking Parts,” Film Studies of Canada Graduate Colloquium, Concordia University, 2000
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2010
Organizer / Programmer, Sight Lines: Dialogues in Film & Media (spring media series), Oberlin College
Founding Member, Cinema 062 (weekly basement cinema), Oberlin, OH
2009
Organizer / Programmer, Viewing Positions: Contemporary Cinema in Context (spring media series), Oberlin College
Artist Talk, New York State Summer School for the Arts, Oswego, NY
Guest Speaker, Christina Battle's Frame x Frame class, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto
Guest Speaker, Dorothea Braemer's Media Curating Class, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Founding Member, Pioneer Species Micro-cinema, Oberlin, OH
2008-
Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Founding Editor, INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics
2008
Artist Residency, Experimental Television Center (ETC), Owego, NY
Media Arts Juror, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH
2007
Panelist, New York Foundation for the Arts, Emerging Artist Focus Group
Guest Instructor and Critic, Department of Transmedia, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Visiting Artist, Portland Film & Video Artists’ Collective, Portland, ME
2006
Founding Director, Syracuse Experimental (Film & Media Workshop), Syracuse, NY
Guest Speaker, Emily Vey Duke’s Transmedia Colloquium, Syracuse University
2005-06
Instructor of record for the Filmmaking II: Experimental film production course at Concordia University
2005
Seminar Instructor, Developing a Curatorial Practice: Approaches to Film & Video Exhibition, Concordia University
Archival Researcher, National Film Board of Canada, for The Arthur Lipsett Project: A Dot on the Histo-map
2004-05
Research Assistant for Marielle Nitoslawska, Montreal
Teaching Assistant for the Filmmaking II: Documentary Approaches course at Concordia University
2001-06
Research Assistant for Richard Kerr, Montreal
1999-00
Founding Director, The Antechamber Art Gallery & Cinematheque, Regina, SK
1999
Gallery Assistant, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
Film Theatre Assistant, Regina Public Library Film Theatre, Regina, SK
1998-00
Gallery Assistant, Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre, Regina, SK
CURATED EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS (SELECTED)
2010
The Road Ended at the Beach, and Other Legends: Parsing the 'Escarpment School,' multi-part film series, Winnipeg Cinematheque (forthcoming)
2009
Saturn Returns, screening and launch of INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, The Images Festival, Toronto; Available Light @ Club SAW, Ottawa
2008
That Reminds Me of Something, video program, produced by Vtape for the Curatorial Incubator v.5: Video Animation, Toronto
2007-08
Arthur Lipsett: About Time, A Film Retrospective, traveling film exhibition, Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, France; 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
2007
Winter Light, film screening, created for The Warehouse Gallery to accompany the exhibition Embracing Winter, Syracuse, NY (Co-curator: Astria Suparak)
2006
Tracks + Gestures: Audio Visions from Up North, new experimental film and cinematic video from Canada and Quebec, video_dumbo, Brooklyn; Foreman Art Gallery at Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, QC; Syracuse University; Winnipeg Cinematheque
2005
Original Copy, film screening, commissioned by Synoptique Film Journal, Main Hall at Mile End Cultural Centre, Montreal
TROUBLE: Hollywood viewed by the Avant-Garde, film screening, commissioned to accompany the exhibition INDUSTRY: Recent works by Richard Kerr, Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal (Co-curator: Astria Suparak)
2004-05
INDUSTRY: Recent works by Richard Kerr, traveling expanded cinema exhibition, Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal; The Images Festival, Toronto; Seoul Net & Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
2004
How To Be A Canadian, video program, commissioned by Eyebeam for the Panorama Screening Series, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, New York; Small Change @ Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia; Aurora Picture Show, Houston; Winnipeg Cinematheque (Co-curator: Astria Suparak)