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Off the Wall
198155 min 36 secFilm: Documentary
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.
Availability
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