Bio

Clark Ferguson – Biography

I am a Saskatchewan-born artist and filmmaker living, working and creating in Québec.   My work has traditionally been concerned with issues related to identity politics and place.  My narrative works focus on aspects of regionalism and attempt to use humour as a method of investigating these subjects.  My documentary works also focus on regionalism and I am intent on making those subjects both interesting and accessible for those within and outside those borders.

Much of my work has been presented within art gallery and festival contexts and has also been to broadcast.  My work is most often created for single-channel screen presentation and web-based platforms. This work has traveled to festivals such as Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal, the Yellowknife International Film Festival, The Sudbury International Cinefest Film Festival, The En Regard Court Mettrage Film Festival, Winnipeg’s WNDX, Germany’s Open Air Weiterstadt Film Festival, and have had several short works presented on CBC’s National Independent film program Canadian Reflections. 

I also work as a Filmmaker-mentor for Wapikoni mobile and have collaborated on over 40 films in seven First nations’ communities.  These films have found their way to festivals and to broadcast.  I also create direct and/or shoot corporative projects for the organization.  Most recently, a film made in collaboration with Heather Condo, Emmet Walsh, and myself, My Father’s Tools, has travelled to The Sundance Film Festival in 2017.