Christopher Becks
Directing
Biography
Christopher BECKS (Canada) grew up in Canada, the Netherlands and the United States. He studied Fine Art and has a a Master's degree in Philosophy. Becks is a member of the Double Negative film collective in Montreal, but he currently lives and works in Berlin where he is pursuing a doctorate in Philosophy and working with the Labor Berlin film collective.
Known For
A film of non-Euclidean and symbolically authentic adventures
I Don't Think I Can See an Island
Christopher Becks’s Pan of the Landscape uses gorgeous Brakhage-like painting on film to un-Brakhage-like ends: spectacular skies combine with the slow, mechanical movement of a silhouetted form to produce a biting melancholy, as if Becks is mourning the film’s removal from the world it glimpses.
Pan of the Landscape
An in-camera improvisation for a barn in Normandy.
Ouverture
"How do you find what you don't know you're looking for ?"
Ritournelle
Christopher Becks’ video, Parallax, is converted from richly colored 16mm footage. He addresses the practice of landscape/travel films by presenting scenes that seem to connote wandering, and searching for something.