Richard Kerr (artist)

Sonntag, 03. Februar 1952

Richard Kerr (born 3 February 1952) is a Canadian filmmaker, visual artist and professor. Since the late 1970s, Kerr developed his practice across diverse media including analog film and digital video. Kerr is a faculty member at Concordia University in Montreal, where he teaches experimental filmmaking. In the late 1980s Kerr made various trips to the American Southwest to shoot black and white film in the desert and in Los Angeles, material that later would lead to two of his most important films Last Days of Contrition (1988), and Cruel Rhythm (1991).