Bio

Peter Dudar was originally a painter, then an installation artist. He next created the performance art/multimedia partnership Missing Associates with dancer/choreographer Lily Eng. Missing Associates were part of the first Canadian performance art tour of Europe, and subsequently performed and screened extensively internationally. As a filmmaker, Dudar screened in diverse venues such as Grierson Documentary Film Seminars; National Gallery of Canada; American Film Festival, New York; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Tate Gallery, London, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück. Dudar has received arts awards in diverse disciplines, including Visual Art, Performance Art, Choreography, Film Production, Screenwriting.

Works

Geriatrica

  • 2014
  • Peter Dudar

"Geriatrica" is a diminished landscape, both physical and mental. 90-year-old Maria pushes a medical walker down a nursing home corridor. A camera strapped to the walker tracks her movements. She was once a world traveler, but now the corridor defines the extent of her universe. Maria manages information like an exhausted swimmer treading water, grasping at the same few thoughts endlessly, never getting anywhere.

Geriatrica

Sculptures You Can Live In

  • 2013
  • Peter Dudar

This movie focuses on a condo site rising on Toronto's lakeshore, whose projects are being financed by Sotheby's fine art auction house, amongst others.

Sculptures You Can Live In

Shamans, the Cunning

  • 2013
  • Peter Dudar

Referencing mythology and gothic fiction, Shamans, the Cunning is about surviving in evil times. Here, human identity turns fluid and the borderline between human and animal evaporates. Shamans evokes its themes via drama and choreographed movement.

Shamans, the Cunning

The Incorporated

  • 2013
  • Peter Dudar

THE INCORPORATED is shopping as ritual-a twenty-first century, yet primeval dance. The Incorporated was shot entirely inside mega-malls with a pocket camera, dismissed or unnoticed by security guards and public alike.

The Incorporated

Condos With Million Dollar Views

  • 2012
  • Peter Dudar

“Condos with Million Dollar Views” explores the fine art techniques used to sell condos as habitable sculptures.

Condos With Million Dollar Views

Different as Night and Day

  • 2012
  • Peter Dudar

“Different as Night and Day,” shot in the Port Lands of Toronto, Canada, examines the disconcerting coexistence of technology and nature.

Different as Night and Day

Walking Away 2

  • 2012
  • Peter Dudar

Scarborough Bluffs (1974): a woman walks away from us, through a field of grass. Approaching a treeline, she turns and crosses the frame.

Walking Away 2