About the Author
Alex Mackenzie was founder and curator of both the Blinding Light Cinema and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival. He is past editor of Workprint, 250W and contributed to a variety of publications including Take One Magazine and various gallery and festival catalogues and imprints. His media work has screened throughout Europe and North America. He is also an accomplished graphic designer, having worked with, among others, Infinity Features, the National Film Board of Canada, Tabata Productions, Omni Film, and a broad range of film publicity and music CD packaging concerns.
Mike Hoolboom is a Canadian film/video artist. He is the author of three books: Plague Years (1998), Fringe Film in Canada (2000), and Practical Dreamers (2008). Heâs a founding member of the Pleasure Dome screening collective (Toronto), and has worked as the artistic director of the Images Festival (Toronto) and the experimental film co-ordinator at Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (Toronto). Heâs won over 30 international prizes, two lifetime achievement awards, and has enjoyed nine international retrospectives of his work.