Executive Producer: Elaine Pain
Elaine Pain has been an independent filmmaker for over thirty years, both producing and directing artist driven work on subjects concerning the environment, women’s concerns, prairie history, prairie landscape, oral history, and a sense of place and identity. She addresses these concerns through animation, documentary, non- traditional narrative and experimental. She has been a member of film co-ops for the past 20 years. Her past works have had international exposure at festivals, art galleries and a variety of TV channels including: The National Gallery of Canada, The Art Gallery of Ontario, La Cinemateque Quebecoise, Museum of Modern Art, Georges Pomidou Theatre, and various festival screenings in Canada, the United States, Ireland, Holland, Sweden, Germany, and Japan. She has served on local and national arts juries over the years. She possesses two Bachelor Degrees one in History, the other in Visual Arts, a Certificate in Computer Animation, and an MFA in film production from the University of British Columbia. She has taught film production in the Department of Media Production and Studies at the University of Regina since 1983. She continues to explore changing technology through a variety of medium including 16mm film, Hi 8, Digital 8, and computer editing.For the last fifteen years Elaine has collaborated with and drawn on her husband Darryl Miller’s technical and creative talents on a number of her productions .
Selected Filmography: Elaine Pain
2008“ Next Year Country” – video – approx. 10-20 min.
-In Post Production :Director/Videographer: Elaine Pain:Video/ Sound Editor: Darryl Miller--When future meets present optimism dies
2007: "DarkOne" Experimental feature documentary-88min
– Executive producer ,photography and additional videography
2007 :Thinking Of You - video - 1 minute
-Time passes and we lose touch when we don't mean to. Film Pool 30th anniversary.
Elaine Pain-Director,script,voice and videography.
Darryl Miller-Editor,sound,additional videography
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2000"Bewildered" - Video 7 min. 30 sec.
Director/Script writer/Videographer: Elaine Pain
Video/Sound Editor,Additional Videography:Darryl Miller
In the end they put grandma into a Home. It was best.They said all the right things. It wasn't what she wanted to hear.
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1996"Thin Ice" - Video to Film.14 min.
-MFA Thesis : University of British Columbia:Investigation into the qualities of the wind within the prairie landscape
-Videography: Elaine Pain and Darryl Miller
-Sound design and execution: Darryl Miller
-Nominated: Saskatchewan Showcase,1996 Best Direction, Best Videography, Best Overall Sound--Award: Best Experimental
1995 “Fading Away” - 16mm. 30 min.
Producer/Director/Editor: Elaine Pain-Cinematography: Ron Jacobs-Additional Cinematography: Elaine Pain-LocationSound/SoundEditor+Music:Darryl Miller
-A docu-drama explores the disintegration of a rural way of life through personal family memories with emphasis on environmental change and impact.
-Nominated: Saskatchewan Showcase, 1995:Best Documentary, Best Cinematography
1991 “Serenity” - 16mm. 7 min. 30 sec. -
- - - - -Music and sound - Darryl Miller
- Cinematography - Elaine Pain, Kathy Deugau
- Combines images of cormorants, hoodoo formations + Japanese gardens through 16mm/super8 live action and slides.
1990 “A Letter From Violet” - 16mm. 5 min. 10 sec.
-A sensitive portrayal of the early history of the women’s suffrage movement in Saskatchewan.The film takes the form of a fictional letter from Violet McNaughton.
(Part of Five Feminist Minutes: Studio D. NFB)
1989 “Edge of Extinction” - 16mm. 5 min. 30 sec.
-Combines rotoscope images of whooping cranes with slides and photographs.Includes line drawings,re-photography + multiple exposures.
“Gone the way of the whooping crane. Once a symbol of certain extinction, today a sign of hope”. A haunting animation whose images blend hypnotically with the inventive sound to form a powerful and hopeful statement on survival.
-Nominated: Golden Sheaf Awards,1989-Award: Best Animation:Saskatchewan Showcase,
1988 "Deadication" 16 mm. 5min.
-Combines animation,stills,slides,Super 8 live action footage blown up to 16mm,16mm found footage,re-photography, multiple exposure. An animated montage of images of life and death.The film is a poetic critique of human excess,constructed from footage gathered at popular ice fishing lakes.The film concentrates its attention on the fish left rotting on the ice through the inept stupidity of irresponsible fishermen. These grizzly images are interwoven with common symbols of life and death -fire, water, skulls and bones - to become a microcosmic metaphor for the environmental abuses taking place world wide.
