Off the Wall

198155 min 36 secFilm: Documentary

G

Direction: Derek May

Production: Tom DalyBarrie Howells

Script: Derek May

This film is about art, as business or as passion, and about the survival of the artist in the marketplace. Sketches about people in the art world are combined with the exploration by the filmmaker, himself an artist, of his own relationship to art. The film features General Idea, Mendelson Joe, Jack Pollock, Arnold Edinborough, Vera Frenkel, Colette Whiten, David Buchan and Pat Fleisher.

Subject categories


  • Visual Arts > Contemporary ArtOntario
  • Media and Communication > Print Media and PublishingSocial Issues

Credits


director
Derek May
script
Derek May
editing
Derek May
narrator
Derek May
producer
Tom Daly
executive producer
Barrie Howells
cinematography
Barry Perles
sound
Claude Hazanavicius
Ingrid Cusiel
sound editing
Danuta Klis
re-recording
Hans Peter Strobl
Adrian Croll

Awards


  • Prize for Best CinematographyFIFA / International Festival of Films on Art