BIOGRAPHY

Chris Gehman is a filmmaker, curator, educator and critic. His film Dark Adaptation (2016) premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and screened at the 2017 Berlinale. Other films include: Refraction Series (2009); Contrafacta (2000, co-directed with Roberto Ariganello), and First Dispatch from Atlantis (1993). Chris was the Artistic Director of the Images Festival from 2000 to 2004, and has also worked as a programmer for Cinematheque Ontario and TIFF. As an independent programmer, he has organized screenings for venues including Experimenta (Bangalore), B92/Rex Cultural Centre (Belgrade), the Winnipeg Film Group/Manitoba Cinematheque, Image Forum (Tokyo), Lago Film Fest (Italy), and the Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA). Chris contributed an essay to the critical anthology Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age (McGill-Queen’s U.P., 2019); edited the collection Explosion in the Movie Machine: Essays and Documents on Toronto Artists’ Film and Video (LIFT & Images Festival, 2013); and co-edited, with Steve Reinke, the critical anthology The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema (YYZ Books, 2005). He has written on the work of Simone Jones, Philip Hoffman, Janie Geiser, Lindsay Page, and John Porter for critical anthologies and exhibition catalogues, and his writings on artists and experimental media have appeared in periodicals such as Millennium Film Journal, Cinema Scope, Take One and Broken Pencil. He has served on the boards of directors of a number of media arts organizations: the Hand Eye Society (2015-19); Images Festival (2006-09); Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (President, 1999-2001); and the Board of Directors/Programming Collective of Pleasure Dome (1994-97). Currently, Chris is also the Finance Manager of Vtape, Canada’s leading artist-run video distributor.