ABOUT RICHARD MARTIN
FILMMAKER
Richard Martin is an award-winning filmmaker from Vancouver Canada. He holds an MFA in Film Production from the University of British Columbia.
His work encompasses experimental film and video as well as mainstream feature film and television. His experimental work has screened at prestigious venues, Berlin International Film Festival, Oberhausen, Ann Arbor, Toronto International, Rencontres Paris/Berlin and many more.
Richard with Christian Pouligo
Director AVIFF (Cannes)
NEWS
Richard’s film MATINEE: Screening and Kino Lorber Blu Ray Release
Matinee will be screened The Pacific Cinematheque on October 29th
Tickets and more info here.
Watch the Trailer:
KINO LORBER BLU-RAY RELEASE
Kino Lorber has released the 1989 Canadian thriller and meta-slasher film Matinee (also known as Midnight Matinee collection. Purchasing details directly on the Kino Lorber site
“Richard Martin’s Mixed Signals Is a scathing case of guilt by visual association”
“Richard Martin’s BACKBONE is essential viewing”
“The film artist takes cynical views ranging from cinema conventions, fundamentalism to politics”
“DIMINISHED: A delicately structured non-verbal poem about loss, time and memory. A documentary of the heart”
“Martin comes to terms with grief by universalizing it. He succeeds in telling his own life through everyman’s. His delicacy and reserve speak emotion”.
