Editing

Dennis Day

Place of birth

Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Known for

Editing

Credits

15 titles

Dennis Day was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, in 1960. He studied classical music and psychology before graduating in media-based art from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, in 1984. He has produced a number of videos known for their strong use of editing, rich colours and humour. He has won a number of international prizes including the «Prix à la Création Artistique du Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec» (Les Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québecois, 2001), the “Bulloch Award” for best short film, at the Inside/Out Gay & Lesbian Festival in Toronto (1997), the “Videofest Award” (Berlin, 1995) and the “Young Director’s Award” (Geneva, Switzerland, 1988). His work has been included in …

Known for

This Narrative is Killing Me poster
NR

An unhappy, silent man journeys through a constantly shifting mediascape in search of something we never discover. Transylvanian moonscapes, Baroque parties and fraternity joyrides constitute just a fragment of his dizzying journey. Is this unnamed character searching for a way in, or a way out of the shifting and overwhelming history which whirls about him?

This Narrative is Killing Me

2001

Got Away In the Dying Moments poster
NR

A video designed to challenge existing models of AIDS treatment in our society. Using a collage of elements as well as techniques from video and performance, the themes of mourning, urgency and healing are explored in a poetic and highly charged video. Got Away in the Dying Moments suggests natural alternatives to the current treatments and attitudes that constrain our hearts and minds with respect to the AIDS crisis.

Got Away In the Dying Moments

1992

Heads or Tails poster
4.0

Two young men engage in sexual acts in an enchanted forest lit by disco lights, while nuns and teddy bears voyeuristically look on with delight.

Heads or Tails

1990

Heaven or Montréal poster
NR

Reflecting on the premature death of a young dancer and artist, Heaven or Montréal points to unfinished ideas, creating "outlines" of lost energy and imagination. As a finale, it summons all its desperation and asks for silence to speak and stillness to dance. Ian Middleton, its co-author, died in 1993 of AIDS related causes.

Heaven or Montréal

1997

No artwork available
NR

A rather liberal and pictorial interpretation of a number of Western musical forms with a considerable homosexual bias. Playing largely off the mood of different musical genres, it is a humorous commentary on musical association, and a celebration and critique of "gay identity."

An Illustrated History of Western Music

1997

Auto Biography poster
3.3

A fishing wharf serves as the runway for a sexy, male fashion show, and childhood fantasies are brought to life in this nostalgic and surreal video about growing up gay in a small Newfoundland town. Auto Biography is a world where lesbian mothers dote over their gay sons and old men reminisce about long-ago boyfriends. In Day's humourous inversion of societal values (shot clandestinely in his parent's house), memory is colourfully reconstructed, and dinner dates and pyjama parties take on a whole new meaning.

Auto Biography

1994

Behind the camera

This Narrative is Killing Me poster
NR

An unhappy, silent man journeys through a constantly shifting mediascape in search of something we never discover. Transylvanian moonscapes, Baroque parties and fraternity joyrides constitute just a fragment of his dizzying journey. Is this unnamed character searching for a way in, or a way out of the shifting and overwhelming history which whirls about him?

This Narrative is Killing Me

2001

This Narrative is Killing Me poster
NR

An unhappy, silent man journeys through a constantly shifting mediascape in search of something we never discover. Transylvanian moonscapes, Baroque parties and fraternity joyrides constitute just a fragment of his dizzying journey. Is this unnamed character searching for a way in, or a way out of the shifting and overwhelming history which whirls about him?

This Narrative is Killing Me

2001

This Narrative is Killing Me poster
NR

An unhappy, silent man journeys through a constantly shifting mediascape in search of something we never discover. Transylvanian moonscapes, Baroque parties and fraternity joyrides constitute just a fragment of his dizzying journey. Is this unnamed character searching for a way in, or a way out of the shifting and overwhelming history which whirls about him?

This Narrative is Killing Me

2001

Got Away In the Dying Moments poster
NR

A video designed to challenge existing models of AIDS treatment in our society. Using a collage of elements as well as techniques from video and performance, the themes of mourning, urgency and healing are explored in a poetic and highly charged video. Got Away in the Dying Moments suggests natural alternatives to the current treatments and attitudes that constrain our hearts and minds with respect to the AIDS crisis.

Got Away In the Dying Moments

1992

Got Away In the Dying Moments poster
NR

A video designed to challenge existing models of AIDS treatment in our society. Using a collage of elements as well as techniques from video and performance, the themes of mourning, urgency and healing are explored in a poetic and highly charged video. Got Away in the Dying Moments suggests natural alternatives to the current treatments and attitudes that constrain our hearts and minds with respect to the AIDS crisis.

Got Away In the Dying Moments

1992

Heads or Tails poster
4.0

Two young men engage in sexual acts in an enchanted forest lit by disco lights, while nuns and teddy bears voyeuristically look on with delight.

Heads or Tails

1990

Heads or Tails poster
4.0

Two young men engage in sexual acts in an enchanted forest lit by disco lights, while nuns and teddy bears voyeuristically look on with delight.

Heads or Tails

1990

Heads or Tails poster
4.0

Two young men engage in sexual acts in an enchanted forest lit by disco lights, while nuns and teddy bears voyeuristically look on with delight.

Heads or Tails

1990

Heaven or Montréal poster
NR

Reflecting on the premature death of a young dancer and artist, Heaven or Montréal points to unfinished ideas, creating "outlines" of lost energy and imagination. As a finale, it summons all its desperation and asks for silence to speak and stillness to dance. Ian Middleton, its co-author, died in 1993 of AIDS related causes.

Heaven or Montréal

1997

Heaven or Montréal poster
NR

Reflecting on the premature death of a young dancer and artist, Heaven or Montréal points to unfinished ideas, creating "outlines" of lost energy and imagination. As a finale, it summons all its desperation and asks for silence to speak and stillness to dance. Ian Middleton, its co-author, died in 1993 of AIDS related causes.

Heaven or Montréal

1997

No artwork available
NR

A rather liberal and pictorial interpretation of a number of Western musical forms with a considerable homosexual bias. Playing largely off the mood of different musical genres, it is a humorous commentary on musical association, and a celebration and critique of "gay identity."

An Illustrated History of Western Music

1997

No artwork available
NR

A rather liberal and pictorial interpretation of a number of Western musical forms with a considerable homosexual bias. Playing largely off the mood of different musical genres, it is a humorous commentary on musical association, and a celebration and critique of "gay identity."

An Illustrated History of Western Music

1997

Auto Biography poster
3.3

A fishing wharf serves as the runway for a sexy, male fashion show, and childhood fantasies are brought to life in this nostalgic and surreal video about growing up gay in a small Newfoundland town. Auto Biography is a world where lesbian mothers dote over their gay sons and old men reminisce about long-ago boyfriends. In Day's humourous inversion of societal values (shot clandestinely in his parent's house), memory is colourfully reconstructed, and dinner dates and pyjama parties take on a whole new meaning.

Auto Biography

1994

Auto Biography poster
3.3

A fishing wharf serves as the runway for a sexy, male fashion show, and childhood fantasies are brought to life in this nostalgic and surreal video about growing up gay in a small Newfoundland town. Auto Biography is a world where lesbian mothers dote over their gay sons and old men reminisce about long-ago boyfriends. In Day's humourous inversion of societal values (shot clandestinely in his parent's house), memory is colourfully reconstructed, and dinner dates and pyjama parties take on a whole new meaning.

Auto Biography

1994

Auto Biography poster
3.3

A fishing wharf serves as the runway for a sexy, male fashion show, and childhood fantasies are brought to life in this nostalgic and surreal video about growing up gay in a small Newfoundland town. Auto Biography is a world where lesbian mothers dote over their gay sons and old men reminisce about long-ago boyfriends. In Day's humourous inversion of societal values (shot clandestinely in his parent's house), memory is colourfully reconstructed, and dinner dates and pyjama parties take on a whole new meaning.

Auto Biography

1994