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Perry Mark Stratychuk is an independent Canadian filmmaker, writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

, musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

, poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, and actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 from Winnipeg, Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. A film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, cinematographer
Cinematographer
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...

, and producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 in several genre
Genre
Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...

s such as experimental
Experimental film
Experimental film or experimental cinema is a type of cinema. Experimental film is an artistic practice relieving both of visual arts and cinema. Its origins can be found in European avant-garde movements of the twenties. Experimental cinema has built its history through the texts of theoreticians...

 short films, music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

s, and documentaries, his 1987 production, the first science-fiction feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...

 produced in Winnipeg Savannah Electric was reviewed by Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere is a Canadian and arts and media critic. He is the outgoing film critic for the Toronto Star, and, starting in 2008, will be the paper's book critic. He is also a host of the movie review series Reel to Real on Rogers Television....

 in movie periodical Cinema Canada. Perry Mark Stratychuk spent several years at The National Film Board of Canada's English Production Studio in Winnipeg where, as Technical Coordinator, he provided assistance to local independent filmmakers, such as Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin, OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films from Winnipeg, Manitoba...

, as part of the NFB's PAFPS program. He also performed in a TV drama by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

.

Following studies in industrial design
Industrial design
Industrial design is the use of a combination of applied art and applied science to improve the aesthetics, ergonomics, and usability of a product, but it may also be used to improve the product's marketability and production...

 and computer animation
Computer animation
Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images by using computer graphics. The more general term computer generated imagery encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images, while computer animation only refers to moving images....

 he wrote and directed 3D animation segments for the Canadian edition of Sesame Street
Sesame Street
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 in conjunction with the CBC and worked there as Assistant to the Producer and Supervising editor
Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...

. Spending several years working in digital photography
Digital photography
Digital photography is a form of photography that uses an array of light sensitive sensors to capture the image focused by the lens, as opposed to an exposure on light sensitive film...

.

Perry has recorded electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 since 1984, when he released a 7" vinyl EP for his film A Soft Look, a soundtrack influenced by Brian Eno and Ryuchi Sakamoto. As well as numerous albums since, for his independent record
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...

 label Twisted Mind Records, he has produced digital
Digital
A digital system is a data technology that uses discrete values. By contrast, non-digital systems use a continuous range of values to represent information...

 CD albums under his own name and alternately as "The Freedom of Information Age", "Shanghai Sex Lab", and "Vampyre's Lyre", including a project using his custom production process Superelectroganics.

His musical work is predominantly in electronic composition covering the genres of techno
Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...

, electronica
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...

, ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

, minimalist, space
Space
Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction. Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum...


and dark ambient
Dark ambient
Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Although it had its roots in the 1970s, Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of newer, smaller, and more affordable Effects units, synthesizer and sampling technology...

. He has scored all of his film and video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...

 projects except His First Million which features music by Michael Stuart, and Savannah Electric:Monochrome
Monochrome
Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or shades of one color. A monochromatic object or image has colors in shades of limited colors or hues. Images using only shades of grey are called grayscale or black-and-white...

 Dystopia
Dystopia
A dystopia is the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian, as characterized in books like Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four...

 which features Tom Paterson as the soundtrack's primary composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

.

Filmography (Producer)

  • Victories Over Distance (1998) documentary
  • One Theatre Way (TV)(1996) documentary
  • The Traveller (1988) music video
  • The Point on the Hill (1987) music video
  • The Half-life of Bernard Blanda (1988) video
  • Savannah Electric: Monochrome Dystopia (1987) feature film
  • A Soft Look (1984) documentary
  • His First Million, The Tale of a Comic Czar (1981) documentary
  • Room 4 Memory (1980) short film
  • Key to a Dream (1978) short film

Filmography (Director)

  • Victories Over Distance (1998) documentary
  • One Theatre Way (TV)(1996) documentary
  • A Pile of Peggers (1995)(TV comedy)(co-director with Pete MacDonald and Grant Kerr)
  • The Half-life of Bernard Blanda (1988) video
  • The Traveller (1988) music video
  • The Point on the Hill (1987) music video
  • Savannah Electric: Monochrome Dystopia (1987) feature film
  • A Soft Look (1984) documentary
  • His First Million, The Tale of a Comic Czar (1981) documentary
  • Room 4 Memory (1980) short film
  • Key to a Dream (1978) short film

Filmography (Animator)

  • Message to Hermione (1998)
  • Pyramid Themes (1997)
  • Nomad Nomad (1996)
  • Dr. Atomic and Auntie Matter (1980)
  • Hamilton Potemkine (1979)

Filmography (Cinematographer Videographer)

  • A Pile of Peggers (1995)
  • The Half-life of Bernard Blanda (1988) video
  • The Traveller (1988)
  • Take What You Want (1988)
  • A Game of Death (1988) (co-camera with Frank Raven)
  • The Point on the Hill (1987)
  • Savannah Electric: Monochrome Dystopia (1987)
  • A Soft Look (1984)
  • His First Million, The Tale of a Comic Czar (1981)
  • Room 4 Memory (1980)
  • Key to a Dream (1978)

Filmography (Editor)

  • One Theatre Way (1996)
  • A Pile of Peggers (1995)(co-editor)
  • The Half-life of Bernard Blanda (1988) video
  • Savannah Electric: Monochrome Dystopia (1987)
  • A Soft Look (1984)
  • His First Million, The Tale of a Comic Czar (1981)
  • Room 4 Memory (1980)
  • Key to a Dream (1978)

Filmography (Technical Coordinator)


Journalism

  • "Winnipeg's Palaces and Playhouses" The New West Review 1996 (article)
  • "Labyrinth" M.E.A.T. 1990 (article)

Fiction

  • New Worlds Radiation Game (novella) (ISBN 1-896087-11-6)
  • The Kalotropic Trilogy (short stories)
  • Return to the Shaking Tree (short stories) (ISBN 1-896087-04-3)
  • The Shadow of the Shaking Tree (short stories) (ISBN 1-896087-01-9)
  • Tour of Time's Edge (short stories) (ISBN 1-896087-00-0)

Poetry

  • Bone to Bone (ISBN 1-896087-12-4)
  • Cyberscope II (ISBN 1-896087-03-5)
  • Cyberscope: Experiments in Transrealism (ISBN 1-896087-02-7)

Discography


Awards

  • Houston Film Festival
  • American International Film Festival
  • Central Florida Film Festival
  • Badalona
  • Chicago International Film Festival
  • Manitoba Arts Council Grants Recipient

External links

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