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Noam Gonick
(March 20, 1973 - living) Canada

Noam Gonick

Filmmaker

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Noam GonickThe son of a radical Marxist, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Noam Gonick, as a precocious twelve year-old, directed A Mid Summers Night's Dream in the local church basement. At eighteen, he ran around naked covered in vegetable oil in a Berlin bomb shelter with a skinhead Artaud ensemble. After a sketchy film school experience he personally studied under filmmakers Guy Maddin and Bruce LaBruce, producing a documentary and book on their work before making his own first feature, Hey, Happy! which premiered at Sundance in 2001.

Noam GonickNoam Gonick, is a somewhat notorious gender-politic filmmaker who has confronted the limitations faced by artists when funding bodies protect corporate control of language over the artists right to satirize. His recent works in film, new media, and publishing have been recognized in numerous high-profile art institutions and film festivals locally, nationally, and internationally.

Winnipeg-based film, he is the director of Stryker (2004); Tinkertown (1999); and the biographical documentary of his friend and mentor Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight (1997); and the homoerotic short film 1919 (1997), a retelling of the Winnipeg General Strike of that year, but set in a gay bathhouse:

"Class divisions - and the (idealistic) ability for homosexuality to transcend those lines - has remained a constant over the last 75 years... the characters are culled from modern times: closeted civic authorities; revolutionary queer agitators; and indifferent; apolitical members of the gay middle class... Instead of focusing on one central protagonist, I have opted to track the stories of several individuals who experienced the same fictional historic climax."

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