Pavsek, Christopher

Christopher Pavsek is a filmmaker and film scholar living in Vancouver, Canada. His films have shown at top international festivals including IDFA, the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, amongst many others. He is a professor of film in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. His academic training includes a BA in German Literature from Cornell University, a PhD in Literature from Duke University, and a Masters Degree in natural resource management and conservation from Simon Fraser University. His film “The One and All” (2002), about the political fallout of the September 11 attacks, premiered in competition at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. The sequel to that film, “To Those Born After” (2005/6), premiered in competition at the International Film Festival Amsterdam. “Mealtime for Mia” (2011), premiered at the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival.. His video/installation, “Scenes from Deseret” (2022), will premiere at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in March of 2023. His newest film, “The Evening News” (2022) is under submission to festivals at the moment. His newest installation, “Wanderings around the delta” (2023), about the birds and the landscape of BC’s Fraser River delta, premiered in late February of 2023 at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts in Vancouver. His most recent film, “As Grey Falls” (2023), is a single-channel film about the Fraser River delta. His recent works focus on the transformations in the landscape of the American and Canadian west and the relationship between humans and non-human beings. His work brings together the aesthetics of landscape photography and avant-garde cinema, and increasingly he works with high-quality field recordings of the locations where he shoots. He seeks to combine his scientific training with his aesthetic training to create works of cinema that find beauty in the scientific understanding of the natural world and that encourage audiences to devote a deep attention to the places we live in common with many wild creatures.