I Had an Interesting French Artist to See Me This Summer

Colin Browne is a poet, documentary filmmaker and non-fiction writer whose most recent book, The Hatch, was published in the spring of 2015. His films include Linton Garner: I Never Said Goodbye, Father and Son, and White Lake, nominated for a Canadian Film Award as Best Feature Length Documentary. He was an editor of Writing Magazine and a co-founder of the Kootenay School of Writing, the Praxis Centre for Screenwriters and the Art of Documentary workshops. He is currently researching the history and legacy of surrealists' engagement with the ceremonial art of the Northwest Coast for a book entitled Scavengers of Paradise, and has completed a monograph on artist Charles Edenshaw and the helmsman galaga snaanga -- known as Fungus Man -- a figure from the Haida epic, Raven Travelling. Browne has a keen interest in film preservation and participated in the reconstruction of Edward Curtis' 1914 feature In the Land of the Head Hunters, filmed with a Kwakwaka'wakw cast and crew in Tsaxis (Fort Rupert) on Vancouver Island. Until recently, he taught film production, film history and critical writing in the Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts, where he is a Professor Emeritus. He continues to work with graduate students.