Brian Lye

2011, 16mm, 5 minute loop

- Failure Fest 2014, Denver, USA
- Made for LIVE! Vancouver Performance Art Biennale 2011 screened at:
- Satellite Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada

CREDITS:
Brian Lye: Producer, Director, Actor
John Woods: Cinematographer
Megan Bodaly: Editor
Jesse Birch: Curator, Camera Assistant
Russell Gordon: Production Assistant (AKA: A Man of Many Hats)

INTERVIEW HERE

"Training a Fool is Not a Joke (2011) is a looped film that takes inspiration from Rodney Graham's Vexation Island (1997). Set in the back yard of a South Vancouver home that is slated for demolition, Lye performs as an apprentice tree pruner who has been hired to remove a large dead branch from a tree. However, the inexperienced arborist is put at risk when the task at hand goes awry. These follies of the everyday point to the adverse effects of Vancouver real estate speculation, while evoking the pitfalls associated with the act of re-performance itself." - Jesse Birch

2016, 16mm, silent, 3 minute loop

Exhibited at:

Presentation House Gallery - The Lind Prize – Group Show, April 2017, Vancouver, Canada

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – Candle, UBC MFA Graduation Exhibition May-June 2017, Vancouver, Canada

Link to essay by April Thompson here

2017, 16mm, 3 minute loop

Light Field Festival, 2017, San Francisco, USA

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – Candle, UBC MFA Graduation Exhibition, 2017, Vancouver, Canada

2016, 16mm, 3 minute loop, silent

Light Field Festival, 2017, San Francisco, USA

For To Do, Group Show, AHVA Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2016

Shitty Magician #3 (HD, 1 min, 2016)

Presentation House Gallery - The Lind Prize – Group Show, April 2017, Vancouver, Canada

2016, Rotoscoped Animation, 30 second loop, silent

2014-2016, 35mm Film Slides, Film Canister, bejeweled Flashlight, 2"x2"x4", Series of 10

Access Gallery - Three Kinds of Abstraction, July 2016, Group show, Curated by April Thompson, Vancouver, Canada

2010, DV, 25 minute loop.

A test of endurance. Who can play fetch longer, Dave or Brian.

2017, HD Video, 5 minute loop

A home made special effect, a domestic magic show.

2017,

Projector, Dowel, Crystals, Rubber Band

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – Candle, UBC MFA Graduation Exhibition, May - June 2017, Vancouver, Canada

Standing In The Road, Joe Henry Highway Version, 2013 (DV, 2 mins)

Filmed on the Joe Henry Highway, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Territory

- Antimatter Film Festival 2013, Victoria, Canada
- WNDX Festival of Moving Image 2013, Winnipeg, Canada
- Counterpath Press 2013, Denver, USA

Blogger Sports. Sign amendment and Magazine amendment 2016.