Jim Anderson
BiographyJim Anderson began making films with Keith Lock as a student at North Toronto Collegiate. In 1969, his 6-minute animated film Scream of a Butterfly (1969) received a prize for best animation at the first Canadian Student Film Festival held at Cinecity in Toronto. The film went on to win the grand prix at the tenth Muse International Student Film Festival in Amsterdam.
Anderson made several films with Lock, including Touched and Base Tranquility, both from 1970, and Arnold in 1971. Their last project together, Work, Bite, Eat (1971), a sequel to Arnold, is a story about “youth and being young.” The film follows pieces of the life of a young man named Arnold who works at a drugstore in Chinatown. In the early seventies, Anderson got involved with the Toronto Filmmakers’ Co-op, running workshops. During that time, he produced two films, Yonge Street (1972) and R.O.M., (1972) both of which were produced quickly and cheaply. He went on to produce several more films and have a successful career as an independent filmmaker. |
FilmographyScream of a Butteryfly (1969)
Base Tranquility (1970) * Touched (1970) * Arnold (1971) * The Big Key (1971) Yonge Street (1972) Work, Bike, and Eat (1972) * R.O.M. (Royal Ontario Museum ) (1972) S-MO (1973 Gravity is Not Sad But Glad (1975 Canada Mini-Notes (1975) Moving Bicycle Picture (1972-75) Le Bois De Balzac / The Woods of Balzac (1973-81) Yellow Woman Meets the X Woman (1981) Audrey: Way Up North ( 1982) Slap Happy Jim (1987) * With Keith Lock |