Director
Rick Raxlen
29 films
Rick Raxlen has been working as an artist and filmmaker since the late '60s. He began as a filmmaker with the NFB alongside Arthur Lipsett and Norman McLaren in Montreal, and was awarded one of only two Genies (Canadian Film Award) ever given for Best Experimental Film ("Legend," 1970). After a stint teaching at Concordia University and many short films, he went on to make the feature film "Horses in Winter" (1988), named as one of the best films of the eighties by Cinematheque Quebecois. After many more short works and another award-winning feature ("The Strange Blues of Cowboy Red," 1995), Rick abandoned the long form out of frustration with the impersonal nature of the process, and turned in earnest to a new obsession: the animated short form. This has been his primary moving image-based artwork for the past 25 years since he relocated to Victoria, BC. Rick is a strong proponent of non-institutionalized art-making practices and largely works outside of the system, producing and exchanging Mail Art and an incredible output of drawing and printmaking work presented in galleries and alternative venues worldwide.
Best known for
Filmography 29
Think Before You Think: A Portrait of Rick Raxlen
2020 · Self
Sea Horses and Flying Fish
2020 · Director
Kanga vs Werewolf
2020 · Director
Fish Don't Talk
2020 · Director
Haunted House
2014 · Director
Rocka-Lula-Hula
2009 · Director
Frottage/Dommage/Fromage 2 Vous
2008 · Director
Brand New Triathlon
2003 · Director
Deadpan
2002 · Director
Slippage
1999 · Director, Cinematography
U - Champions
1999 · Director
The Geometry of Beware
1998 · Director
The Strange Blues of Cowboy Red
1996 · Writer, Director
Tongue Tied
1988 · Director, Producer
Horses in Winter
1988 · Editor, Director
The Divine Right
1985 · Director, Editor
The Polytechnic World
1984 · Director
Duck Talk
1984 · Producer, Director
Self-Portrait (with Fish)
1984 · Producer, Director
Flagman's Nightmare
1984 · Producer, Editor
Grey's Lullaby
1984 · Producer, Director
Pure Mutation
1984 · Producer, Director
15 Soldiers, 11 Machines, 8 Cows
1983 · Director, Producer
Jaffa-Gate
1982 · Producer, Director