Directing
Gregory Colbert
Born
1960-04-19 (66)
Place of birth
Toronto, Canada
Known for
Directing
Credits
5 titles
Photographer/filmmaker Gregory Colbert was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1960. He began his career in Paris in 1983 making documentary films on social issues. His first exhibition, "Timewaves", opened to wide critical acclaim in 1992 at the Museum of Elysée in Switzerland. For the next ten years, Colbert went off the grid and did not publicly share his art or show any films. He began traveling the world to photograph and film wondrous interactions between animals and humans. After ten years passed, Colbert returned to present "Ashes and Snow" at the Arsenale in Venice, Italy, in 2002. An immersive experience of nature that combines photographic artworks, films, and soundscapes, housed in a pu…
Known for
7.5Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one another, the animals, and nature. UNITY is a film about why we can't seem to get along, even after thousands and thousands of years.
Unity
2015
7.3Ashes and Snow, a film by Gregory Colbert, uses both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinary interactions between humans and animals. The 60-minute feature is a poetic narrative rather than a documentary. It aims to lift the natural and artificial barriers between humans and other species, dissolving the distance that exists between them.
Ashes and Snow
2005
A documentary filmed in nine countries.
On the Brink: An A.I.D.S. Chronicle
1988
Film credits
Behind the camera
7.3Ashes and Snow, a film by Gregory Colbert, uses both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinary interactions between humans and animals. The 60-minute feature is a poetic narrative rather than a documentary. It aims to lift the natural and artificial barriers between humans and other species, dissolving the distance that exists between them.
Ashes and Snow
2005
7.3Ashes and Snow, a film by Gregory Colbert, uses both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinary interactions between humans and animals. The 60-minute feature is a poetic narrative rather than a documentary. It aims to lift the natural and artificial barriers between humans and other species, dissolving the distance that exists between them.
Ashes and Snow
2005
7.3Ashes and Snow, a film by Gregory Colbert, uses both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinary interactions between humans and animals. The 60-minute feature is a poetic narrative rather than a documentary. It aims to lift the natural and artificial barriers between humans and other species, dissolving the distance that exists between them.
Ashes and Snow
2005
A documentary filmed in nine countries.
On the Brink: An A.I.D.S. Chronicle
1988