dan browne

dan browne (b. 1982, Montreal, Canada) is a filmmaker, photographer and multimedia artist who is interested in the nature of perception. His films and videos have been presented at over fifty festivals and venues around the world, including Rotterdam International Film Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou, EXiS Festival Experimental Film + Video, Festival du nouveau cinéma, and TIFF Cinematheque's The Free Screen. His film memento mori (2012) received the Jury Prize for Best Canadian Work at WNDX Festival of Moving Image, First Prize (Experimental Category) at Athens International Film + Video Festival, the Deluxe Cinematic Vision Award at Images Festival, and was also presented as a live A/V performance and installation. Dan is also a curator with the Loop Collective, a Toronto-based group of artists who seek to promote an interdisciplinary approach to cinema. He holds a B.F.A (Hon) from The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, a M.A. from the York/Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the same program, where his research focuses on relationships between technology, embodiment and art.

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SELECT FILMS & VIDEOS:

• pastoral (2014), 10 minutes, HDV, colour, silent.
• Grid07 (2014), 5 minutes, HDV, colour, silent.
• Nude Descending (after Duchamp) (2013), 2 minutes, HDV, colour, silent.
• memento mori (2012), 28 minutes, HDV, colour, sound.
• routes (2011) 1 minute, 16mm, colour, silent.
• hand-processing (2010), 3 minutes, 16mm, colour, sound.
• quanta (2008), 9 minutes, 16mm, b/w, silent.
• recomposition (2007), 5 minutes, DV, colour, silent.
  
• on sundays (2007), 20 minutes, 16mm, colour, sound.
• waterfilm (2007), 6 minutes, 16mm, colour, sound.
• Abraxas (2006), 11 minutes, 35mm, colour, surround sound.
• b movie (2005), 10 minutes, 35mm, colour, sound.
• festival of light (2005), 3 minutes, 16mm, colour, sound.
  

SELECT COLLABORATIONS & ASSISTANCE (roles indicated):

• Traces du futur (2014), by Peter Mettler, 3 minutes, HD video, colour, sound. Editor, sound design.
• Petropolis (abridged version) (2014), by Peter Mettler, 15 minutes, HD video, colour, sound. Editor. 
• The End of Time (2012), by Peter Mettler, 110 minutes, HD video, colour, sound. Assistant editor, assistant cinematography.
• War(n/m)ing (2010), with Filiz Klassen, 32 minutes, site-specific video installation, colour, sound. Videography, sound design.
• Memory Fade (2009), by Carl Brown, 34 minutes, 35mm, colour, surround sound. Sound composition.
• Reaching For Nothing (2008), by Peter Hatch, Dereck Revington, David Earle, 4D multimedia opera. Videography, post-production.
• Weathering Architecture (2008), by Filiz Klassen, digital video/live performance with sound. Videography.
• Nocturne for the Fireflies (2008), by Victoria Cheong, 8 minutes, 16mm/video, colour, sound. Cinematography.
  
• Michael Snow in January 2005 (2008), by Pierre Tremblay, 45 minutes, DV, colour, sound. Videography.
• The Young Prince (2007), by R. Bruce Elder, 16mm, colour, sound. Image and sound processing.
• Parícutin (2007), by Erika Loic, 16mm, colour, sound. Additional sound composition.
• Reverberlin (2006), by Michael Snow, 60 minutes, DV, colour, sound. Additional videography.
• Untitled (2002), with Paul Gerretsen, Luca Lucarini, Ty Tekatch, Evan Wargon. Co-direction, videography, editing.

SELECT SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS:

• "Lab 1: Impressions," Festival de nouveau cinéma, Montréal, Canada. October 10 & 17, 2014.
  
• "Visions: A Micro-Festival of the Uncanny", The Picture Show, Brooklyn, NY. June 27-28th, 2014.
• "90 Second WUFF", Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB. June 26, 2014.
• Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montréal, QC. May 24th, 2014.
  
• Synaesthesia III - Film and Music, FAWN Opera & New Music, Brockton Studio, Toronto, ON. May 3, 2014.
  
• Performative Ecologies, dc3 Galleries, Edmonton, AB. March 16th - April 4th, 2014.
• "HYPNAGOGIA, SENSORIA, AMERICANA, (DISTURBIA)," Wythe Cinema, Brooklyn, NY. Feb 28th, 2014.  Curated by Jonathan Caouette.
  
• Reykavík Visual Music · Punto y Raya Festival, Reykavík, Iceland. January 31, 2014.
  
• Beyond, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival, Winnipeg, Canada. January 31, 2014.
• Sight Unseen, Baltimore, USA. January 30, 2014.
• "Stephen Broomer vs. Toronto," Open City Cinema, Raw Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada. January 14, 2014.
• Concert La Scène Électroacoustic Transalpine, Elektramusic, MAMCS, Strasbourg, France. December 5, 2013.
  
• Festival Punto de Encuentro, Granada, Spain. November 28, 2013.
  
• The Land Behind, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, New Brunswick. November 18-30, 2013. Curated by Solomon Nagler.
• Kabelsalat, Cafe Pyrus, Kitchener, Canada. November 2, 2013.
• Laboritorium series, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic. October 24-29, 2013.
  
• Tone Deaf 12, Kingston, Canada. October 20, 2013. Video projections with live music by Fire Moss (D. Parker & K. Clemens).
• "Experimentations 2," Festival de nouveau cinéma, Montréal, Canada. October 15 & 18, 2013.
• "Recent works by the Loop Collective," Electric Visions conference, School of Image Arts, Toronto, Canada. September 27, 2013.
• Winnipeg Design Festival, installation curated by Jaimz Asmundson, Winnipeg, MB - September 21, 2013.
  
• Light Cone Fall Preview Show, Paris, France. September 11-13, 2013.
• Competition programme, EXiS Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Seoul, South Korea. September 2013.
• Cinema City International Film Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia. August 26, 2013.
• Nit Electro Sonora al Castell de Flix, Catalonia, Spain. August 3, 2013.
• "Gimmie Shelter," Christie Pitts Film Festival, Toronto, Canada. July 14, 2013.
• Light & Time: 15 Years of the Loop Collective, Factory Media Arts Collective, Hamilton, Canada. July 12-29, 2013.
• "International Experimental Showcase," Revelation Film Festival, Perth, Australia. June 4-14, 2013.
• Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Haverhill, Massachusetts. June 7-8, 2013.
• A/Visions 1, MUTEK Festival, Montréal, Canada. May 29, 2013.
  
• Darkwalkers, The Rainbow Palace, Toronto, Canada. May 22, 2013.
• Sweet Magic London, London ON. May 10, 2013.
• Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. May 3, 2013.
• "Memories are Made of This," OFFoff, Gent, Belgium. April 29th, 2013.
• "Transmission Attempts," European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany. April 2013.
• "Before Our Eyes," Images Festival, Toronto, Canada. April 18, 2013.
• "EXPERIMENTE: GRANULAR COCKTAIL", Filmfest Dresden, Germany. April 18th & 20th, 2013.
• "Experimental Landscapes," Athens International Film + Video Festival, Ohio, USA. April 16, 2013.
• "A Soirée Celebrating the Armory Show," Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, Toronto, ON. April 2, 2013.
• Fruit From the Ashes, The Sterling Lofts, Toronto, ON. March 29, 2012.
• Artgrease TV, episodes #636 & #637, March/April 2013.
• CSIF 21st Annual Hundred Dollar FIlm Festival, Calgary, AB. March 7-9, 2013.
  
• King Street Alt Film and Video Festival, Toronto, ON. February 2013.
  
• "Motion Pictures," at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands. January 25 & 27, 2013.
• Superimposition, IMA Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, ON. January 9 – February 2, 2013.
• Simplexity, TEDxOCAD, Toronto. January 18-20, 2013.
• "The Memory Palace," at WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, MB. September 27, 2012.
• In Somno Ludere, The Sterling Lofts, Toronto, ON. September 8, 2012.
• ARTNOW, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ON. July 5-7, 2012.
• Cross Sections, Double Double Land, Toronto, ON. April 28, 2012.
• The Lighthouse Series, CineCycle, Toronto, ON. December 2011.
  
• The Free Screen, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, ON. November 30, 2011.
• McLuhan’s Media: An Installation, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON. July 2011.
• Cross Sections, *HotShot Gallery, Toronto, ON. March 2011.
• New Toronto Works, Pleasuredome, Toronto, ON. March 19, 2011.
• Cité de l'architecture et du patrimonie, Paris, France. December 11, 2010.
• Factory Media Center, Hamilton, ON. May 2010.
• Come Up To My Room, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON. March 2010.
• Jeu de Paume: Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, 2009.
  
• EXiS Festival, Diagonal Film Archive, Seoul, South Korea. September 2009.
• Pleasure Dome Open Screening, CineCycle, August 2009.
• “Oeuvres récentes: The Loop Collective”, Cinema Parallele, Ex-Centris, Montreal, QC. Feb. 2009.
• Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, ON. September 7, 2008.
• Kinetika!, Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, United Kingdom. June 2008.
• Digifest/HATCH, Harbourfront Studio Theatre, Toronto, ON. March 28-30, 2008.
• The Lighthouse Series, School of Image Arts, Toronto, ON. April 2008.
  
• The New Paragone, conference held at The School of Image Arts, Toronto, ON. March 2008.
• Millennium Film Archive, New York, NY. January 2008.
• LIFT Poetry Projections II, Harbourfront Studio Theatre, Toronto, ON. September 30, 2007.
• “Radiance: New Works By Canadian Celluloid Practicioners”, WNDX Festival, Winnipeg, MB. September 2007.
• aluCine Media Festival, National Film Board of Canada, Toronto, ON. July 2007.
• The Lighthouse Series, School of Image Arts, Toronto, ON. February 2007.
• La Cinematheque Française, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. January 2007.
• The End of the Internet, The Press Club, November 2006.
• Poor Pilgrim #29, The Press Club, October 2006.
• “Panorama 7: Notre Meilleur Monde”, at Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France. June-August, 2006.
• Ryerson University Film Festival, The Royal Cinema, Toronto, ON. June 2005.
• Maximum Exposure, School of Image Arts, Toronto, ON. May 2005.
• CineCycle, Toronto, ON. April 2005.
• School of Image Arts Gallery, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON. September 25-29, 2004.
• Maximum Exposure, School of Image Arts, Toronto, ON. May 2002.

SELECT CURATORIAL WORK:

• 2014 - Cross Sections: Thinking|Feeling, Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, Ryerson University, Toronto.
• 2012 - S is for Student, international student competition programme at Images Festival, Jackman Hall, Toronto, ON.
• 2012 - Selected Works by the Loop Collective: Volume 1, DVD compilation of short films and videos by members of the Loop Collective.
• 2012 - Before/After, DVD of short videos produced in Visual Studies courses at the School of Image Arts.
• 2011 - Factory Media Arts Collective Screening Series, Petropolis & Balifilm by Peter Mettler with Q&A at Art Gallery of Hamilton.
• 2011 - The Lighthouse Series, featuring Double Negative Collective, Carl Brown in person, with the Loop Collective at CineCycle, Toronto.
• 2009 - The Lighthouse Series, featuring Michael Snow, R. Bruce Elder in person, with the Loop Collective at the School of Image Arts.
• 2008 - The Lighthouse Series, featuring Carl Brown, Richard Kerr in person, with the Loop Collective at the School of Image Arts.
  
• 2007 - The Lighthouse Series, with the Loop Collective at the School of Image Arts.
  
• 2007 - Here: Andy Holden, Gallery 54, Toronto, ON.
• 2006-2007 - Free Radicals screening series, Gallery 54, Toronto, ON. 
  
• 2006 - Four Films by Snow, Wieland and Frampton, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON.
• 2005 - Visual coordinator, Function Magazine.
  

SELECT AWARDS, HONOURS, COMMISSIONS:

• 2014 - Doctoral scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
• 2013 - Deluxe Cinematic Vision Award, Images Festival, Toronto.
• 2013 - First Prize (Experimental Category), Athens International Film + Video Festival, Ohio, USA.
• 2013 - Ontario Graduate Scholarship
• 2013 - Rogers Fellowship Award.
• 2013 - Finalist, SSHRC Storytellers Competition.
• 2013 - Programmer's Choice Award, King St Alt Film & Video Festival, Toronto, ON.
• 2012 - Media Arts Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts.
• 2012 - Jury Prize, Best Canadian Work, WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, MB.
• 2012 - Graduate Scholarship (PhD), Ryerson University.
• 2011 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Masters Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
• 2010 - Graduate scholarship (Masters), Ryerson University.
• 2010 - Media Arts Dissemination Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, with the Loop Collective.
• 2010 - Media Arts Distribution Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, with the Loop Collective.
• 2009 - Integrated Media Arts Grant, Ontario Arts Council, with Filiz Klassen.
• 2007 - Commission: Poetry Projections II, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto.
• 2004 - First Prize, Liberal Essay Writing Contest, Ryerson University.
• 2003 - Dean's List, Faculty of Arts, Ryerson University.
• 2003 - Best Documentary, Student Shorts Festival, Toronto, ON.

EDUCATION:

• PhD Candidate, Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities, Toronto.
• 2012 - Master of Arts, Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities.
• 2006 - Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France.
• 2005 - Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hon.), School of Image Arts, Ryerson University.

WORKS DISTRIBUTED BY:

• Light Cone 
  
• Winnipeg Film Group
• Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
• Re:Voir
  

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