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Profile of Noam Gonick
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Noam Gonick |
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20th March 1973 |
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Noam Gonick (born March 20, 1973 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.
Films
- 1919 (1997)
- Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight (1997)
- Tinkertown (1999)
- Hey, Happy! (2001)
- Stryker (2004)
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Born into a radical Marxist family in Winnipeg, Canada, Noam Gonick supplemented his formal film education by studying directors Guy Maddin and Bruce LaBruce. His survey of Maddin's life and work became the documentary Waiting for Twilight (1998), narrated by Tom Waits. His interest in LaBruce resulted in the book Ride, Queer, Ride!
Gonick's first short, 1919 (1997), was a re-visioning of the Winnipeg General Strike seen through the window of a Chinese bathhouse/barbershop. The film posits a more positive albeit historically inaccurate outcome to the infamous strike.
Hey, Happy! (2001) Gonick's first feature film, is an astro-camp epic set in the Winnipeg rave scene on the eve of an apocalyptic flood. DJ Sabu's meeting with Happy (his 2000th lover) results in the conception an alien love child.
Stryker (2004) is a gang war flick with a Native power message. The film was shot by legendary indie Cinematographer Ed Lachman (Far From Heaven, Ken Park). Stryker premiered at the 61st Venice Film Festival.
Gonick's work has screened and is available worldwide and can be found easily on Amazon.
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