ARTIST / / FILMMAKER  (VANCOUVER - LOS ANGELES )

 SHE/THEY

Experimental humourist filmmaker, Conceptual Sculptor and Dada Gallerist who loves joyful guerrilla art interventions, turning difficult life experiences into comedic works of art, and working with what you have. Allison Beda’s film art is deeply personal, darkly comic, subversively feminist, and Allison’s installations/conceptual sculptures question what art is and who gets to decide. 

Allison is the founder/curator of Fake gALLeRY and created the DADA tiny ART SHOW +WORLD TOUR which is presently touring the world with a biennial show of miniature works of over 40 underrepresented international artists (sometimes from within the DADA ART COAT, a trench coat turned mobile art gallery). Fake gALLeRY also recently debuted Allison Beda’s installation IT’S ART IF I SAY IT IS at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo y de las Culturas Oaxaqueñas, (MACCO) in Oaxaca City, Mexico. Mx Beda is extremely interested in experimenting with new models of exhibition that bypass traditional gatekeepers and encourage artists to help each other get their work out into the world, fostering a dialogue about artistic practice and exhibition, sharing discoveries and contributing to the evolution of art making. 

Allison holds BA in film from Simon Fraser University, an MFA from the University of BC, lecturing at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, SFU, and UBC.   Her work as an IATSE camera operator on various network features and television series helped her hone her strong visual style and her work as an Associate Producer on shows like the SYFY/Universal series 12 Monkeys taught her exactly what and when you can (and cannot) "Fix it in post". Allison is deeply committed to collaborating across art forms and bringing the work to audiences in unique ways to create memorable viewing experiences and Allison’s award winning work has been exhibited internationally at festivals, in theaters, on television, in art galleries, on billboards, in the metro and even at the Olympic games.

Mx. Beda is the Founder and Creative Director of  A Muse Productions Inc., which loves making films about women who make trouble and film art that defies categorization.  Allison’s very first short film  Know Your Alphabet , a darkly comic personal poetic and alphabetical short examination of life and death (and war and peace), toured the world with the films of Stan Brakhage and is still being invited to screen internationally.  Allison turned her first career as an international fashion model into the feature documentary How To Be A Model (A 12 Step Plan).  The work strove to effectively document the world and experience of being a “typical” non-superstar model, while highlighting how intrusive “documenting” can be, and how deeply “truth” in any documentary is controlled and filtered by the documentarian. Critics deemed it “an intriguing insider look filled with shattered stereotypes”. and festivals heralded it as “an insightful examination of what it means to be a model, a filmmaker, and a friend”. 

ALLISON BEDA GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THEY ARE LIVING, WORKING, AND CREATING ON THE UNCEDED AND TRADITIONAL TERRITORIES OF THE COAST SALISH PEOPLES – SḴWX̱WÚ7MESH (SQUAMISH), SEL̓ÍL̓WITULH (TSLEIL-WAUTUTH), AND XʷMƏΘKʷƏY̓ƏM (MUSQUEAM) NATIONS.

Photo courtesy of David Hauka.

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Represented by BARBARA J. BIRD of THE CHARACTERS AGENCY barbarab@canadafilm.com     T: 604.733.9800       F: 604.733.6000