
Directing
Gary Popovich
Gary Popovich is a Toronto filmmaker, teacher and writer. His films are personal reflections on cultural history which have screened increasingly in Canada, the United States and Europe, and have sold to collections and to television for broadcast. Popovich has taught several courses in film production, as well as courses in film history and aesthetics at Sheridan College, and has conducted workshops on hand-processing, colour toning, and image manipulation. He has written on film for several film publications, worked as newsletter editor for the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), and served on arts boards such as the Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre, the Euclid Theatre, the Grierson Documentary Seminars and Festival in Toronto, The Images Festival, and Cinema Giovanni in Italy.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
NRA short study of the impossible relationship between a camera and a tree.
Caress
1989
NR“In a tapestry of migratory luck, artifacts and shells, a mixed choir of images and sounds engages the paradox of a journey that loses all meaning once it reaches its end. The film’s westward inclination to the American shores of the Pacific, bound in a pitiless growth and decay, drives a dense montage, woven with guns and prayers.” - Gary Popovich
Faultlines
1998
NR“In a tapestry of migratory luck, artifacts and shells, a mixed choir of images and sounds engages the paradox of a journey that loses all meaning once it reaches its end. The film’s westward inclination to the American shores of the Pacific, bound in a pitiless growth and decay, drives a dense montage, woven with guns and prayers.” - Gary Popovich
Faultlines
1998
NRA series of dreams, nightmares and overlapping narratives take place on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. The central portion of the film draws a portrait of Haiti’s difficult history, the democratic election of Father Aristide, the coups that removed him from office, and Canadian involvement each step of the way.
Somewhere
2013
NRA series of dreams, nightmares and overlapping narratives take place on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. The central portion of the film draws a portrait of Haiti’s difficult history, the democratic election of Father Aristide, the coups that removed him from office, and Canadian involvement each step of the way.
Somewhere
2013
NRA series of dreams, nightmares and overlapping narratives take place on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. The central portion of the film draws a portrait of Haiti’s difficult history, the democratic election of Father Aristide, the coups that removed him from office, and Canadian involvement each step of the way.
Somewhere
2013
NRAmidst the ghosts of his cultural roots, Popovich creates a lyrical and loving light monument dealing with separation, change and death.
Elegy
1989
NR“Child’s play in the universe of evolution. Another lost-in-a-box piece, a video, portions of which have been uncovered and are being assembled; Forever may soon make an appearance.” — Gary Popovich
Forever
2005
NR“Child’s play in the universe of evolution. Another lost-in-a-box piece, a video, portions of which have been uncovered and are being assembled; Forever may soon make an appearance.” — Gary Popovich
Forever
2005
NR“Child’s play in the universe of evolution. Another lost-in-a-box piece, a video, portions of which have been uncovered and are being assembled; Forever may soon make an appearance.” — Gary Popovich
Forever
2005
NR“Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a group of Toronto experimental filmmakers, Antigone is both a documentary about searching for meaning and validity in the old story, and a fiction about the failure to find any value but parody.” - Gary Popovich
Antigone
1990
NR“Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a group of Toronto experimental filmmakers, Antigone is both a documentary about searching for meaning and validity in the old story, and a fiction about the failure to find any value but parody.” - Gary Popovich
Antigone
1990
