General Information
Completed On: 20 Nov, 2018
Duration: 56 min 54 sec
Genres: Documentary
Language: English
Country: Canada
Submitted By: Dennis Siren
Festival Rating 8.1
This film covers the last 6 years of Walter Redinger’s life. We collaborated on projects, one being the exhibit of ‘The Ghostship’ at Museum London, Canada. As the Parkinson’s disease progressed, Walter continued to create large works from the confines of his walker. Brimming with questions about the Universe, Walter forged ahead doing his best to convey his sense of what it all looked like. This film is ALL Walter, ALL of the time. Walter was a man driven by his limitations, only to create the limitless.
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DirectorsDennis Siren
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ProducersDennis Siren
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WritersDennis Siren
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Film TypeDocumentary
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Genres
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Runtime56 minutes 54 seconds
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Completion Date20 Nov, 2018
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Production BudgetUSD
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Country of OriginCanada
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Country of FilmingCanada
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Film LanguageEnglish
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Shooting FormatDVC Cassette
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Aspect Ratio16:9
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Film ColorColor
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Student ProjectNo
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First-time FilmmakerNo
LIAFF
India
38 Rajani Kanta Das Road Ramlal Bazar, Kolkata, West Bengal – 700078 India
World Premiere
Monthly Winner
Director's Biography
Dennis Siren, Biography
Saby Siren Productions was founded in the year 2000. Our mandate is to document the ‘Art Scene’ in London Ontario. We have produced extensive documentation of artists, musicians and poets. To name a few --- Eric Atkinson, Tony Urquhart, Walter Redinger, Brian Saby, Eric Stach and Penn Kemp.
In 2007 we documented ‘The Argentinean/Canadian Mural Project’.
Involved with the plight of the vulnerable in our society, we have produced a number of documentaries --- “Queering the Canon”; Symposium of Psychiatric Survivor Recovery, “Hope for a Change”; “Invisible Eyes on Homelessness”.
As active participants in Nuit Blanche, we have created an installation, a musical and a 6-hour ‘stream-of-consciousness’ musical piece performed at Museum London.
“The Rise of Urban Agriculture in London Ontario” was documented in 2014. This venture produced a 1½-hour video.
Early in 2017, a documentary on Walter Redinger (sculptor) has been completed.
For the last decade, Saby Siren Productions has created videos for Penn Kemp’s poetry as well as documentation of numerous live performances of Penn's larger works. The video poems have been entered into poetry film festivals in Scotland, Germany and Canada.
The video poems to date are:
On the Other Hand of Time, Last Leaves Fall, Dream Sequins The Dream Life of Teresa Harris, Between Between, Heart P'arts, For Me It Was Foxes.
Director's Statement
I prefer the term documentation rather than documentary for this project. It's raw and cuts to the heart of who Walter is and his cosmic view of the world and his compulsion to represent his glimpse.
