Perry Mark Stratychuk

Perry Mark Stratychuk (born in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is an independent Canadian filmmaker, writer, musician, poet, and actor. A film director, cinematographer, and producer in several genres such as experimental short films, music videos, and documentaries, his 1987 production, the first science-fiction feature film produced in Winnipeg Savannah Electric was reviewed by Geoff Pevere in movie periodical Cinema Canada. Perry Mark Stratychuk spent several years at The National Film Board of Canada's English Production Studio in Winnipeg where, as Technical Coordinator, he provided assistance to local independent filmmakers, such as Guy Maddin, as part of the NFB's PAFPS program. He also performed in a TV drama by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Following studies in industrial design and computer animation he wrote and directed 3D animation segments for the Canadian edition of Sesame Street in conjunction with the CBC and worked there as Assistant to the Producer and Supervising editor. Spending several years working in digital photography.

Perry has recorded electronic music since 1984, when he released a 7" vinyl EP for his film A Soft Look, a soundtrack influenced by Brian Eno and Ryuchi Sakamoto. As well as numerous albums since, for his independent record label Twisted Mind Records, he has produced digital CD albums under his own name and alternately as "The Freedom of Information Age", and "Vampyre's Lyre", including a project using his custom production process Superelectroganics.

His musical work is predominantly in electronic composition covering the genres of techno, electronica, ambient, minimalist, space and dark ambient. He has scored all of his film and video projects except His First Million which features music by Michael Stuart, and Savannah Electric:Monochrome Dystopia which features Canadian musician Tom Paterson as the soundtrack's primary composer.

Filmography (Producer)

• Victories Over Distance (1998) documentary
• One Theatre Way (TV)(1996) documentary
• The Traveller (1988) music video
• The Point on the Hill (1987) music video
• The Half-life of Bernard Blanda (1988) video
• Savannah Electric: Monochrome Dystopia (1985–87) feature film
• A Soft Look (1984) documentary
• His First Million, The Tale of a Comic Czar (1981) documentary
• Room 4 Memory (1980) short film
• Key to a Dream (1978) short film

Filmography (Director)

• Victories Over Distance (1998) documentary
• One Theatre Way (TV)(1996) documentary
• A Pile of Peggers (1995)(TV comedy)(co-director with Pete MacDonald and Grant Kerr)
• The Half-life of Bernard Blanda (1988) video
• The Traveller (1988) music video
• The Point on the Hill (1987) music video
• Savannah Electric: Monochrome Dystopia (1987) feature film
• A Soft Look (1984) documentary
• His First Million, The Tale of a Comic Czar (1981) documentary
• Room 4 Memory (1980) short film
• Key to a Dream (1978) short film

Filmography (Animator)

• Dancing With the Dinosaurs, segment creator, Manitoba Planetarium (1998)
• Message to Hermione (1998)
• Various CBC / Sesame Street, segment creator, CBC Winnipeg (1996-97)
• Pyramid Themes (1997)
• Nomad Nomad (1996)
• Dr. Atomic and Auntie Matter (1980)
• Hamilton Potemkine (1979)

Filmography (Cinematographer Videographer)

• A Pile of Peggers (1995)
• The Half-life of Bernard Blanda (1988) video
• The Traveller (1988)
• Take What You Want (1988)
• A Game of Death (1988) (co-camera with Frank Raven)
• The Point on the Hill (1987)
• Savannah Electric: Monochrome Dystopia (1987)
• A Soft Look (1984)
• His First Million, The Tale of a Comic Czar (1981)
• Room 4 Memory (1980)
• Key to a Dream (1978)

Filmography (Editor)

• Victories Over Distance (1998) documentary
• One Theatre Way (1996)
• A Pile of Peggers (1995)(co-editor)
• The Half-life of Bernard Blanda (1988) video
• Savannah Electric: Monochrome Dystopia (1987)
• A Soft Look (1984)
• His First Million, The Tale of a Comic Czar (1981)
• Room 4 Memory (1980)
• Key to a Dream (1978)

Filmography (Actor)

• A Way Out (TV)(1985) CBC drama

Filmography (Technical Coordinator)

• The Defender (1989) NFB documentary [1]
• Return of the Swift Fox (1988) NFB documentary [2]
• The Crown Prince (1988) NFB drama [3]
• Daughters of the Country Series (1985) NFB drama [4]

Journalism

• "Winnipeg's Palaces and Playhouses" The New West Review 1996 (article)
• "Labyrinth" M.E.A.T. 1990 (article)

Fiction

• New Worlds Radiation Game (novella) (ISBN 1-896087-11-6)
• The Kalotropic Trilogy (short stories)
• Return to the Shaking Tree (short stories) (ISBN 1-896087-04-3)
• The Shadow of the Shaking Tree (short stories) (ISBN 1-896087-01-9)
• Tour of Time's Edge (short stories) (ISBN 1-896087-00-0)

Poetry

• Bone to Bone (ISBN 1-896087-12-4)
• Cyberscope II (ISBN 1-896087-03-5)
• Cyberscope: Experiments in Transrealism (ISBN 1-896087-02-7)

Discography

• The Savannah Resistance: Full System Memoir (soundtrack) (2011)
• Room 101: A Superelectrorganic Music sampler (2002)
• Secret Terrors (2001)
• Amphenol (2001)
• Body Waves (soundtrack) (1984–2001)
• Plasma Drift (1999)
• Abattoir Clown (1999)
• One Theatre Way (soundtrack as The Freedom of Information Age) (1997)
• Hold Up Bomb Poison Kidnap Hostage Evacuation (1997)
• Modern Use of Crystals (1994)
• Silicon Flesh Foundry (1993)
• CyberGoth (as Vampyre's Lyre) (1992)
• Savannah Electric: Monochrome Dystopia (soundtrack contributor)(1985–87)
• A Soft Look (soundtrack)1983)

Awards

• Houston Film Festival
• American International Film Festival
• Central Florida Film Festival
• Badalona
• Chicago International Film Festival
• Manitoba Arts Council Grants Recipient

References

• Reference to Perry Mark Stratychuk's animation company Twisted Mind digital design
• Interview from The Marjorie Stevens Show, concerning production of "One Theatre Way" Global Television 1996
• Who's Who in Canadian Film and television, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television 1991–92

• Film Canada Yearbook 1987
• Film Canadiana: a guide to Canadian Films 1983–84

External links

• Works by or about Perry Mark Stratychuk [5]
• Perry Mark Stratychuk at Worldcon 1994 [6] the World Science Fiction Convention [7]
• Perry Mark Stratychuk at the National Film Board of Canada [8]
• Perry Mark Stratychuk Channel [9]