Mike Rollo’s photochemical practice explores alternative approaches to non-fiction cinema. His films are place-based, focusing on landscape and the natural world, rural industry, and communication cultures, with ecological thinking and mindfulness of shifts, conflicts, and negotiations, related to themes of memory, obsolescence, age, and decay.
His films have screened at festivals and galleries such as the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival (Seoul), International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, International Film Festival Oberhausen, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Kasseler Dokfest, LA Film Forum, Marseille Festival of Documentary Film, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, San Francisco Cinematheque (Crossroads) and Rotterdam International Film Festival.
He has programmed and curated films for the Cinémathèque québécoise (Montreal, Canada), Dresdner Schmalfilmtage (Dresden, Germany), the Regina Public Library Theatre (Canada), WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, Canada), and the Xalapa International Festival of Experimental and Animated Cinema (Mexico).
Mike teaches film production at the University of Regina.
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Painting by Lana Belton
MIKE ROLLO 