Richard Martin

2021

Richard Martin is a filmmaker from Vancouver Canada. At 19 he began directing and editing documentary films at the National Film Board of Canada. He was inspired by the West Coast film scene of Dave Rimmer and Al Razutis and began his own explorations in cinema. "Diminished", produced in 1979 won Honorable Mention at the 9th Northwest Film Festival and screened at Ann Arbor. Gene Youngblood described the film as “A delicately structured non-verbal poem about loss, time and memory, closer in style to Michael Snow or Hollis Frampton than to Alain Resnais... A documentary of the heart.” He worked extensively in film and television before returning to personal work with Mixed Signals which premiered at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival. He has straddled the worlds of mainstream and experimental film exploring time, memory and cinematic convention.

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Winter Last July

Richard Martin

"I travelled to Australia in 1979 as artist-in-residence to a Brisbane art gallery screening Canadian experimental film. I was handed a bunch of 16mm film and set about recording visual experiences. At the same time I had access to a recording facility and a grand piano. A couple of years later the two experiences merged into a personal travelogue that was part happenstance and part pre-ordained." –RM

Winter Last July

1983

Just After Christmas

Richard Martin

"A sculptural and quasi-performance piece involving discarded Christmas trees. A meditation on passing and the things-left-behind." –RM

Just After Christmas

1977

Give That Person There a Camera

Richard Martin

"I used to wander the streets of Vancouver very early in the morning experiencing sights, sounds and people going about their business. Somewhere along the way I imagined a narrative attempting to be genuine." –RM

Give That Person There a Camera

1977

Gathering

Richard Martin

"I was 17, cynical and commenting on my 'youth'. The scenes were set-up but ultimately improvised. The party scene was real and documented with a couple of cameras. It is reasonably accurate to the situation." –RM

Gathering

1975

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Your Daughter Is Sleeping

Richard Martin

"I picked up the telephone one day and somehow got cross-connected into a conversation between a couple talking about the simple experiences of their day which included the line 'Your daughter is sleeping'. I felt as a voyeur, hearing and seeing things I was not meant to see and hear. Somehow that became a metaphor for voyeuristic filmmaking, as troubling and imperfect as that experience can be." –RM

Your Daughter Is Sleeping

1978

Diminished

Richard Martin

"I made this for my step-father who had passed away. I had an old 'Ambrotype' and if you held it up to the light, you could scratch away the backing to expose the negative. I set it up on an animation stand and created the sequence. This framed a central sequence of still photographs depicting a hospital visit." –RM

Diminished

1980