Stewart Applegath

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Stewart Applegath was born in Toronto in 1959. He studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and in 1993 received an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. A prolific videographer, Stewart Applegath's work positions itself between documentary and situational practice. Applegath creates portraits of individuals, generally North American, which he synthesizes in the context of specific themes such as race and class relations, religion and the search for self. He currently lives and works in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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breakSurface

When sculptor John Greer and filmmaker Stewart Applegath began shooting, they had no destination, only a desire to journey together in a row boat with camera in hand. Over six years, they rowed a fair distance. breakSurface documents these travels, and the extent to which Greer’s world is leavened with debilitating anxiety. Greer’s powerful sculpture is visually simple, conceptually complex, but silent; he identifies with Jonathan Swift’s "man of objects" who lays out things, not words, to be understood. Applegath, however, doesn’t make this film to replace words, but by embracing them.

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2001