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Gerald Saul

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On May 25 I screened three recent videos as part of the Stars and Steeple screening events at the Cathedral Villiage Arts Festival in Regina
On April 1, 2012 I screened my new super-8 film, "The Amazing Flying Marshmallow House" at the new Shotgun Super-8 Festival in Regina. The soundtrack was live with me and my son on a microphone in the darkened room.
From January 1 to June 30, 2012, I am on sabbatical from the University of Regina.
Amongst other projects, I am creating daily videos and posting them on Vimeo. . . . . . .WATCH
To follow my academic reading during my sabbatical, which I am attempting to find motivating to create these videos, click HERE.
From January to April, I have hired MFA student Rob Hillstead to work on my "Rerun" research project.
I am also assisting in organizing an academic conference on French science fiction and comics for November 2012 called POW! In the Eye of the Moon.

I am a film and video artist based in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada and am a professor in the Department of Film at the University of Regina. I was the head of that department from 2004-2007. I have worked in media for many years, primarily as a 16mm experimental filmmaker and animator. My work has been increasingly about memory and identity as my body of work is slowing creating a self portrait. My early work is concerned with a questioning of the process of art making while my later works accept that art making and living are closely tied so to question the value of one is to question the value of the other. Naturally my later 16mm films, especially my "Toxic", Modern", and "Grain" series' are highly process oriented as well as being my most personal films to date. I have lately returned to satire with my i ronic look at Modern art in by fragmentary and degraded "Modern" films and with my Mr. Saul personna within a grouping of narrated home-movie style super-8 films.

In the notes for my 2003 screening in Edmonton, Troy Rhoades described my work in terms of economy of scale, which I've always felt was important.

At the university, much of my new creative research has been digitally based, investigating aspects of media convergence as it relates to 3D animation and narrative media production. This work is conducted through the New Media Research Laboratory of which I am co-investigator and member.

I have been a member of the Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative since 1984. I am frequently on their Board and have been the president on four occasions.

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