Bio

Mike Rollo is a Canadian filmmaker and a founding member of the Double Negative Film Collective, a Montreal-based group of film, video and installation artists interested in creating, curating and disseminating experimental film and video. He currently lives in Saskatchewan teaching film production at the University of Regina. 

Works

The Broken Altar

  • 2013
  • Mike Rollo

"The Broken Altar" is a portrait of abandoned and emptied drive in theaters.

The Broken Altar

Ghosts and Gravel Roads

  • 2008
  • Mike Rollo

An inventory of lost memories and places, the sun bleached landscape of Saskatchewan serves as a metaphor for displacement, a framing of emptiness and absence. Traveling to forgotten towns and channeled through old family photographs the camera catalogues the haunting remnants of the past, frail monuments and communities laid bare, broken under economic collapse. Under the weight of the prairie skies a visceral, personal encounter is revealed in the solace of open space.

Ghosts and Gravel Roads