Gary Kibbins
Full Professor / Undergraduate Chair
Film and Media
Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
Gary Kibbins is the Associate Head for Queen's Film and Media. Gary is a media artist and writer, currently teaching at Queen’s University. Until 2000 he taught at the California Institute of the Arts. A book of essays and scripts was published in 2005: Grammar & Not-Grammar: Selected Scripts and Essays by Gary Kibbins, ed. A. J. Paterson, YYZ Books, Toronto; 2005; 254 pp.
Research Interests:
Aesthetic theory; experimental media; experimental literature; image theory; image-text relations
Media Works:
2021 Rake Pail Clip Books 5:00
2021 The Parable of the Two Crows 4:00
2020 Parallel Life 12:00
2020 7 Anthropologies 19:00
2018 Or So It Seems 10:00
2019 X Marks installation (with Matt Rogalsky)
2019 Doorway 8:00
2017 Pianthropomorphia 12:00 (with John Burge)
2017 A Child’s Concept of Chance 7:00
2016 Mama Minde 20:00
2016 Men Working On Boats at Night 10:30
2015 The Wide Wide World 9:00
2014 Only Believe Things That Are Easy To Understand 7:30
2014 Ocean View 10:00
2012 God Hates Himself 22:00
2012 Girl Sitting on Blue Chair 30:00
2010 The Unlucky Sailor 35:00
2009 7 Questions About Bicycles 15:00
2008 How To Lose Consciousness 16:30
2007 Brain Worm #3 17:00
2006 jesuscallingthelittlechildrenuntohim 12:00
2006 A Triad in 3 Parts 7:00
2006 The Harvest Is In 14:00
2005 10 Phrase Studies 10:00
2005 Brain Worm 24:00
2004 April 1967 7:00
2003 If Horses Had Gods 45:00
2003 Grammar Lesson 7:00
2003 52 Gods 5:00
2002 Limbic Moments 20:00
2000 Carl Andre's Overalls 11:00
1998 The Alien Seaman 20:00
1996 Finagnon 70:00 (16mm)
1994 P & Not-P 27:00 (16mm)
1992 Mead Lake 28:00 (16mm)
1990 A Short History of Water 16:00
1989 The Long Take 7:00