NOAM GONICK curriculum vitae FILM To Russia with Love Queer Olympians in Sochi confront Russian LGBT struggles. Narrated by Jane Lynch Documentary, HD, 2014, 83 minutes Sundance Productions/EPIX(Viacom). CBC National Broadcast GLAAD Award Nomination, 17th Thessalonica Documentary Film Festival, Inside Out, Frameline 39 San Francisco, 18th Pink Apple Festival Zurich, Documentary Edge Festival New Zealand SALES AGENT: CINEPHIL
StrykerNative street gang life through the eyes of a fourteen year-old arsonist Feature, 35mm, 2004, 93 minutes 61. Venice International Film Festival (world premiere) Selected screenings: Museum of Modern Art (New York), Gwang-ju International Film Festival (Korea), Museum Für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt), Film Exchange Winnipeg (closing gala), Canadian Film Institute/National Archives Theatre (Ottawa), Boston Underground Film Festival, Commonwealth Film Festival (Manchester), Montreal First People's Film Festival, Cinema du Parc (Montreal), Dreamspeakers Film Festival (Edmonton), Frameline 29 San Francisco, Film Columbia, Mix Brazil, Children of the Earth High School (Winnipeg), Yukon International Film Festival, Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival DISTRIBUTION Canada: Decade/KRK, USA: Strand, France: BQHL BROADCAST TMN, Movie Central, Showcase, IFC, Sundance Channel PERMANENT COLLECTIONS Museum of Modern Art (New York), National Archives of Canada
Hey, Happy! Astro-camp cult film about a DJ’s apocalypse-triggering love affairs Feature, 35mm, 2001, 70 minutes 21st Sundance Film Festival (world premiere) Selected screenings: New York Underground Film Festival (opening night film), NSI Film Exchange (closing gala), Buenos-Aries International Independent Film Festival, MIT, Paris Gay and Lesbian (closing gala), Inside/Out (award – Best Canadian Film), Frameline 25 San Francisco, Out On Screen Vancouver (opening gala), Outfest LA, Boston Underground Film Festival, Raindance, National Film Theatre (London), Commonwealth Film Festival, Milan & Bologna Gay and Lesbian, Lisbon Gay and Lesbian, Mostra Internacional de Cine Gay y Lésbico de Barcelona, Austin Gay and Lesbian, Tampa International Gay and Lesbian, Sydney/Melbourne Queer Festival, Mix Brazil, Image et Nation, AFM International Independent Film Festival (Istanbul), London Gay and Lesbian (ICA), Atlantic Film Festival, Gimli Film Festival, Korean Queer Festival, Febio Fest (Prague) DISTRIBUTION Canada: Mongrel Media, USA: Strand Releasing, France: ED Distribution, Germany: GM Films BROADCAST TMN, Showcase, IFC, Sundance Channel, Aux TV, Arté PERMANENT COLLECTION Quebec Cinematheque
Biography of the iconic filmmaker narrated by Tom Waits Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight Documentary, 16mm, 1998, 60 minutes 48. Berlin International Film Festival Selected screenings: TIFF (world premiere), Hot Docs (award – Best Arts Film), Rotterdam International Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival, Pompidou Centre, Atlantic Film Festival, American Museum of the Moving Image, Smithsonian Institute, Jeu de Pomme (Paris), Fantasia Festival (Switzerland), Seoul Film Festival, Swedish Film Institute, Olympia Film Festival, Thessalonica Film Festival, Walker Art Center, Winterthur Kurtzfilm Festival, Wroclaw (Poland), Pushon International Fantastic Film Festival (Korea), Jerusalem Cinematheque, Kino Arsenal (Berlin), Akademie der Kunst (Berlin), Reel Artists Film Festival (Calgary) DISTRIBUTION Canada: Mongrel Media, USA: Zeitgeist/Kino, France: ED Distribution, Rest of the World: Cowboy BROADCAST CBC, Bravo! (Canada), Global, Sundance Channel, Planete (Africa), Doc Channel PERMANENT COLLECTIONS Australian Cinematheque, Archives of Canada NOAM GONICK curriculum vitae 1919 The Winnipeg General Strike through the window of a Chinese steam bath and barbershop. Short, 35mm, 1997, 8 minutes 23rd Toronto International Film Festival (world premiere) Selected screenings: Museum of Modern Art, NY, Frameline 21 San Francisco, Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival (award – Best Canadian Film), MIX: New York Experimental Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (opening night film), Brooklyn Labor Film Festival, South Africa Gay and Lesbian, Jeu de Pomme (Paris), Serpentine Gallery, Turin Gay and Lesbian, Pleasure Dome, Inside/ Out (award), Image et Nation, Olympia Film Festival, Chicago Underground, Inside/Out Toronto (award), Oberhausen, Birdo Flugas (Japan) DISTRIBUTION Canada: Winnipeg Film Group, USA: Big Film Shorts, Strand Releasing, France: ED Distribution, Incite! Magazine insert BROADCAST CBC, IFC (Canada), Pride Vision, Arté PERMANENT COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Canada, National Library of Canada
INSTALLATION/TV/NEW MEDIA/CURATORIAL/SHORTS/THEATRE Wildflowers of Manitoba (2007) No Safe Words (2009) Commerce Court (2008) Precious Blood (2008)
Performative Film Installation, 2007. (with Luis Jacob). 9 screen Video Installation, 2009 Video Installation, 2008 Sculptural Video Installation, Biennale de Montréal, TIFF 2007 (MoCCA), Plug In ICA, Executive Producer: Commission for Nuit Blanche Berlinale, Glenbow Museum, Bruce Bailey Toronto, 2008 Nuit Blanche Toronto (OCAD), JMB Gallery (UofT), Belkin LesGaiCineMad, Madrid 2011 Gallery 1.1.1. U of M, 2009 2007, Subconscious City, Gallery (UBC) - Collection, MIX NY, AND Festival (UK), 2010 Cultural Olympiad, Vancouver, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2008, insert Armory/Volta NY 2009, MIX NY, Sketch Gallery, London, 2009 2009-2010 in Border Crossings, 2010, 5th Contour Biennial (Belgium) VIVO, Vancouver, 2009, Out on Spring Break Art Show, NYC, National Arts Centre (Ottawa), 2011, MaSSMOCA 2012 (Oh Screen (with live performance), 2012 2011 Canada, touring through 2015) 2011, Satellite Gallery, 2013 Anna Kustera, NYC, 2012
Last Days of Cleopatra One-Act Tragicomedy, Tara Players, 2016 Taken CBC/APTN, TV documentary series about the MMAW, 2016 Voices in Longitude and Latitude Four-Channel Video Installation (with Marnina Gonick), 2014 Exhibiting at the Winnipeg Art Gallery for the Winnipeg Film Group’s 40th Anniversary, previously exhibited at MSVU Gallery, Halifax. Pussy Fingers Goes to Paris 23-minute TV documentary about an exhibition (below), HD, 2013 Winter Kept Us Warm (Curator) La Maison Rouge (Paris), MIAM, Sette, France, Plug In ICA, 2012 WinniPig (Curator) Antebellum Gallery (Hollywood, CA), 2012 What If? National Film Board, Governor General’s Award film, 2011 Hirsch CBC, Short Documentary about John Hirsch, 2010 L’Isle des Hermaphrodites Super8 1-Take, 2010 Rebecca Belmore Video Producer: Fountain, 2005, Canada Pavilion Venice Biennale; March 5th, 1819, 2008; The Blanket, 2010; Omaa, 2015 Retail Creator, comedy TV series (pilot), 2007, written with Brad Fraser Kink Field Director, Reality TV Series, Paperny/Showcase, 2002, 2004 Psychic Saturday Night Producer/Creator, National Call-In TV Show, WTN, 2000 Tinkertown Short film, optical printing experiment,1999 Andy Warhol Film Festival (Curator) Winnipeg Film Group Cinematheque,1995 NOAM GONICK curriculum vitae WRITING/PUBLISHING My Winnipeg (2007) Scenario Consultant on the documentary cine-essay by Guy Maddin Bruce LaBruce: Ride, Queer, Ride! Editor, Plug In Editions (1998) 254pp Published in: Purple Magazine, Vice, Fuse, Bad Day, Canadian Dimension, Border Crossings, Hobo, Heeb, Up & Coming, RFD, Incite!
SELECTED REVIEWS, ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS ArtForum "Best Films of the Year" December, 2001 Andreoli, Richard "Mondo Homo" Alyson Publishing, 2004 Austin-Smith, Brenda “Strange Frontiers” in Self Portraits, Canadian Film Institute, 2006 Baerwaldt, Wayne “Reflections on Art and Artists in the Financial District” POV Magazine, Issue 73, Spring, 2009 Bradshaw, Lisa “Melody of the Body” Flanders Today, September 7, 2011 Braun, Liz "Terrifying Look at Turf Wars", Toronto Sun, July 22, 2005 Budak, Adam “No Safe Words” Border Crossings, Issue 107, Fall 2008 Crile, Susan “Football Team Waterboarded” Huffington Post, June 6th, 2009 Davies, Nick, “Fuck fest Out West” Xtra, May 31, 2001 Eisner, Ken "Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight" Variety October 26th, 1997 Enright, Robert "Stryking While the Iron's Hot" Border Crossings, November 2004 Enright, Robert “Popeye Gonick and the Filmy Spinach of Sex” Border Crossings Winter 2001 Enright, Robert "Getting Happy Before the Apocalypse" Globe & Mail, May 24, 2001 Felperin, Leslie "Stryker" Variety September 29, 2004 Fallon, Kevin “To Russia With Love” Daily Beast, October 29, 2014 Forsberg, Walter “Gonick Gets Gone” Uptown Magazine December 13, 2007 Frohwerk, Ron “1919“ Border Crossings, Fall, 1998 Harvey, Dennis “Hey, Happy!” Variety, January 2001 Hasselriis, Kaj “Short Film Questions Police Role at Pride” Xtra, June 10, 2009 Kehr, Dave "Film in Review: Hey, Happy!" New York Times, January 25th, 2002 King, Randal "Citizen Raising Cain" Winnipeg Free Press, February 20, 2005 Klymkiw, Greg “25th Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival 2015” The Film Corner blog, May 27, 2015 Klymkiw, Greg “Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2015” The Film Corner blog, May 2, 2015 Kostash, Myrna "The Next Canada" McClelland & Stewart, 2000 Lewis Conn, Andrew "Notes from the Underground" Film Comment, May 2001 Loft, Steve "New Cinema From Winnipeg's Mean Streets" First Perspective, June 2005 Markonish, Denise “Oh Canada” exhibition catalogue, MassMOCA, 2012 Milroy, Sarah “Something Big Is Happening Here” Globe & Mail, May 21, 2007 Mitchell, Elvis "Music, Monsters and More: Dispatches from the Edge" New York Times, March 7, 2001 Mookas, Ioannis "Fires Were Started" Senses of Cinema May, 2005 Mookas, Ioannis “Noam Gonick’s Queer Utopias” from the book Place, Winnipeg Film Group, 2009 Pevere, Geoff “Shiny Happy People” Toronto Star, June 2001 Roberts, Lorne “Multimedia Spectable…” Winnipeg Free Press January 3, 2008 Sandals, Leah "Noam Gonick Interviewed" C Magazine Issue #87, Fall 2005 Scott, A.O. "Caught Up in a Turf War on Winnipeg's Mean Streets" New York Times, January 4, 2006 Ward, Fraser “Made in Canada” Art in America, October 2012 Waugh, Thomas “The Romance of Transgression in Canada” MQUP, 2006 Weisblott, Marc “Commerce Court meltdown” Eye Weekly October 13, 2008 Weiner, Emily “My Winnipeg” (Winter Kept Us Warm), Critic’s Pick, ArtForum, September, 2011 White, Dave “Wanted: 2,000 men” The Advocate, October 28, 2003 Wilson, Jill “Winnipeg” Utne Reader, March-April, 2003 Yeo, Marion “Last Night I Had the Queerest Dream” Canadian Dimension, March 1999 Zielinski, Ger “Bringing Sexy Back: MIX New York Queer Film Festival, Afterimage, January 2010 LECTURES, ARTIST TALKS, TEACHING Serpentine Gallery, Columbia University, University of Manitoba (Architecture faculty, 2010), Ontario College of Art and Design University (faculty member, 2007), Walker Art Center, Simon Fraser University, Cinematheque Ontario, Alberta College of Art & Design, Glenbow Museum, University of Winnipeg, Théâtre du Renard, Paris, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mondragon Anarchist Bookstore Café, Winnipeg Film Group
AFFILIATIONS President, Plug In ICA, 2007-2015 Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, filmmaking member Director’s Guild of Canada, documentary member
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