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Ryan Ferko

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Ryan Ferko (Canada) is an artist working predominantly in film and video. Between cinemas and galleries, his work is concerned with landscapes as unstable sources of narration, turning to myth, story-telling, amateur experts, and distorted memories as a way to find narratives alternative to official histories. Based in Toronto, recent work has been shown at Viennale, TIFF, NYFF, Black Canvas Festival de Cine Contemporaneo, amongst others. Since 2013 he has been working in collaboration with Parastoo Anoushahpour and Faraz Anoushahpour. Their shared practice explores the tension of multiple subjectivities as a strategy to address the power inherent in narrative structures. Foregrounding the idea of place as a central focus, their work seeks to both decode their surroundings and trouble the production of images through speculative narration and dialectical imagery. Their recent work has shown at Punto de Vista Film Festival, Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Art (Spain), Sharjah Film Platform, Viennale, NYFF, TIFF, IFF Rotterdam, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Experimenta (Bangalore), and Media City Film Festival (2015-2018).

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Film Production

Cinematography:
2022  The Time that Separates Us

Director:
2015  Bunte Kuh
2016  Strange Vision of Seeing Things
2017  Heart of a Mountain
2018  Chooka
2018  If All That Changes Quickly
2018  beach
2019  Hrvoji, Look at You from the Tower
2022  Surface Rites
2022  The Time that Separates Us
2024  Lovers' Wind
2024  Postscript
????  Charity

Sound Mixer:
2015  Bunte Kuh
2016  Strange Vision of Seeing Things
2017  Heart of a Mountain
2018  Chooka
2018  If All That Changes Quickly
2018  beach
2019  Hrvoji, Look at You from the Tower
2022  Surface Rites
2022  The Time that Separates Us
2024  Lovers' Wind
2024  Postscript
????  Charity

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