Algis Kemezys
Multi Media Artist * Photographer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor, World Traveller. Website: https://www.algiskemezys.com Sainte Adele, Quebec.
ph. no.450 694 2878 Email: algis.kemezys@gmail.com
Algis Kemezys is a seasoned image maker both in still photography and video. His photography has been exhibited worldwide while his mostly- documentary videos have played in international festivals and won many Awards. "Algis Kemezys is a guy who can photograph anything , and isn't it wonderful to see a real artist at work...! " Mary Hardiman The New York Times 1999 " Kemezys is like a modern day Henri Cartier Bresson, only with multiple levels of perception. Popular Photography Magazine 1984
Algis Kemezys started taking photographs in the early seventies. His fine-art career began in 1979 with the apprenticeship to the Doyenne of Photography, the late BERENICE ABBOTT, discoverer of EUGENE ATGET and assistant to MAN RAY in Paris. Berenice Abbott recently got a street named after her in Paris. 2023
Walter Lassally: Oscar winning DOP for “Zorba The Greek” Collaborator with Walter Lassally on making Masterclass with Walter Lassally. 2009
Examples: www.viewbug.com/member/alkeme ,
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/algiskemezys FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ algisthomas.kemezys/ IMDB: https:// www.imdb.com/name/nm2681518/.
Pbase Portfolios: https://pbase.com/alkeme
Skills: Journalistic Photography, Creative Portraits, Location Scout, Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Writer, Magazine Cover Photographer, World Traveller, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Designer, Friendly
Positive ,Attitude, Problem Solving, Verbal Communication, Multi
Tasking, Active Listening, Dowser, Critical Thinker, Semiotics, intuitive Creations.
Recent work: Photography and Film
“Medusa & Hermes The Reincarnation Musical” 2016 : 83 Minutes. Winner of 6 awards at International Film Festivals. Chicago, Barcelona, India, Europa and more.
“My Fishy Friends” 2024: 90 minute Documentary. Winner of over 100 awards at International Film Festivals, Hollywood, Toronto, NYC, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Milan, UAI, Kathmandu, Mongolia, Egypt, Cannes, China,Brunei Awards Page, Facebook: https:// www.facebook.com/people/Friends-with-wild- Fish/ 100095010373845/?_rdr
The Messenger Hermes Remembers. 24 min. Short film 101 awards at International Film Festivals See Facebook: https:// www.facebook.com/ TheMessengerHermes/
FFAVN Festival , Val Morin, QC, My Fishy Friends Mes Amis Poissons 2024 Vallarta Tribune 2017 & 2023 Contributing Columnist &Photographer
Judge for the International Hollywood Short Film Festival. 2017 & 2022.
https:// filmfreeway.com/
HollywoodShortFilmFestival
Mortar and Pestle Trailer for Funding Distributor 2013. https:// filmfreeway.com/1317483
NETSHOWS STAGE: APRIL 11 2014- 2012 COX Cable, New England. MAIN STAGE: Reading a book underwater https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7grWMM14lzc
Open Salon: Editors Picks 2010-2013 https:// www.youtube.com/ watch? v=PJ4PTi7FRpA 2010-2024 CTV Weather PIX Montreal
Current Instant Gratification: A Polaroid Party 2009 ISM: a community project and Hibbleton Gallery pay tribute to instant film and the discontinued Polaroid 600 Series with a gallery exhibition + limited edition book. http://cameraluv.com/instant- gratification- polaroid-show/
The Flowering Universe: Movie Slusser Gallery Un.of Michigan Feb 2009 IMDB Listing.
Masterclass with Walter Lassally https://www.imdb.com/title/ tt1322946/ Platinum Remi Winner at the 42nd WorldFest . Houston International Film Festival for Masterclass April 2009 MasterClass @ 4th Video Festival, City of Imperia, Italy April 14th to 18th 2009
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece 2009 MasterClass an official program selection of the Florida Media Market Global ! !
Conference 200(screening on October 25, 2008 at 8:15 pm) Media Factory Show TV #23 by NetShows on the Cox Cable Network ! ! !
Shapeshifter Prequil Video Shown across the USA and Europe in Various Festivals
Assignment Earth Yahoo Video: Blue Green Algae: Broadcast @ Yahoo Video @ yahoo.com
Featured Video “Quantum Physics In India” under ! ! Science & Environment,
Chicago Short Film Festival Shapeshifter 30-minute version Festival De Cine International De Barcelona Shapeshifter United Nations
Environmental Film Festival: Mimetoliths INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO as
Director, Cinematographer, Editor:
MasterClass (2008) 45 minutes. Interview with Oscar-winning cinematographer Walter Lassally at and near his home in Crete. Shapeshifter (2007) 30 minutes. Reality-drama about a man facing his own mortality. Shot in India and Montreal
Mimetoliths (2006) 60 minutes. Documentary about mythology and the rock formations of Greece. Featured in: Cyprus International Film Festival; Asterfest,
Ecofilms Festival, Rodos; Charlotte, North Carolina"s Cackalaky Film Festival; and in all four locations (Alaska, Arizona, Oregon, New Zealand) of Distributor TPI International (Chantilly, Virginia) http:// mimetoliths.blogspot.com/ http://imdb.com/title/tt1050252
Faces of Myth (2004) 60 minutes. Documentary about Crete. Official selection Thessaloniki Documentary Festival; Maine International Film Festival; Ecofilms Festival, Rodos; co-produced by the NFB. Distributor: Vtape (Toronto). https:// www.imdb.com/title/tt1047614/? ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cred_t_7
Wall Stories (1990) 60 minutes. Art video of personal peoples stories in front of a wall of images. Official
selection at Torino International Film Festival and various video-art events. Distributor:
VTape (Toronto THE CIVIL SERVANT: Starring role. 30-minute dramatic film. Shown on the CBC, and festivals. LAWN & ORDER: major participant. Gemini- nominated film about gardens.
CBC. ALGIS, MON BEAU JARDIN: starring role and subject of 20- minute, prize winning video (First and Second prize at Video-Est). Shown on Radio- Canada, and festivals. Other Art-Videos:
TALK KIDS; MARIE ANTOINETTE; IMELDA; CHICHENITZ AH; THE BIG ONE: videographer/ director/actor Televised documentaries about Kemezys' work:
PORTRAIT in STONE (CBC, 1994) about GRAVEN IMAGES.
MY MOTHER'S RED WIG (CBC, 1995). HOLY COW (CNBC, 1998)
JOURNALISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY Travel Photographer, Montreal Gazette, Montreal, Quebec — 1995-2009 Feature travel photography, on location, all over the world. Photography samples: http:// www.pbase.com/alkeme
Photographer various publications 2015 - 1985 Montreal Gazette * Freelance Travel / Article Photographer 2000-09 GLOBE AND MAIL Freelance.
NOW MAGAZINE (Toronto) over 1,000 photographs on wide variety of subjects --Editorial, events, politics, arts-- during ten years on staff (1985-1995). Celebrity Portraits @ NOW Magazine. Robert Redford, Jodie Foster, Eliza Mennelli, Don Rickles, David Cronenberg, Sophia Loren, Lily Tomlin, Janet Jackson, Gus Van Saint, River Phoenix, John Malcovich, Don Johnson, Jeremy Irons, Robert Downey Junior, Billy Chrystal, Ronald Reagan, John Cusack, Peter Falk, Sissy Spacek, Peter Falk, Debra Winger, Danny Glover, Anthony Burgess,KD Lang, Ben Kingsley, Gordon Lightfoot, Tina Turner, pink Floyd, REM, Mr T. Morgan Freeman, Marisa Tomai, Margaret Drag, Jay Leno, Wayne Gretzky, Hall and Oats, Michael Moore, Fran Leibovitz, Tim Burton, Smothers Brothers, Norman Jewison, Sean Penn, Whoopi Goldberg, Dennis Hopper, Jay Leno, Vanessa Redgrave, John Tuttoro, Denis Arcand, Tina Turner, Paul McCartney, Madonna , Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Fine Young Cannibles, Robert DeNiro, REM, Carol Pope, Bronchi Beat, and many more....
PHOTO LIFE (Toronto) Holy Cow articles in 1991 and 1992.
PHOTO DIGEST (Toronto) ALTERED STATES (1993); article (1994). PHOTO SELECTION (Montreal) STREET MYSTERIES (1984); SELF ! ! ! PORTRAIT (1985); ALTERED STATES (1994); HOLY COW (1998).
DARKROOM PHOTOGRAPHY (California) ALTERED STATES (1989); with ! interview and 5 pages of
ALTERED STATES (1990).
POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY (New York) 1984. Rave review of STREET MYSTERIES
Also published in: CTV MONTREAL, L.A.TIMES; BOSTON HERALD; PEOPLE ; CAMERA CANADA; TORONTO STAR, FACES OF CANADA; TORONTO LIFE; MORNING SENTINEL MACLEANS; HINDUSTANI TIMES; TIMES OF INDIA; INDIA EXPRESS; PHOTOGRAPHERS FORUM; JAZZIZ MAGAZINE; AMERICAN THEATRE MAGAZINE; EAST ANGLIA TIMES; MORNING SENTINEL; YANKEE MAGAZINE.
Photographic Portfolios : 1975 / 2014 Born in Stone 2014 Abandoned around the Mediterranean 2013 Neo Crete Sculptures 2008 Al Greco's Crete 2005 Published in Crete, Greece
Amid Summer's Wildflowers Published in Greece 2005
Cartoon Society 1998/2000 Greenwich Village Cartoons 2000 Sacred Sadhus Portraits 1998 Holy Cow: a portrait of India 1988
My Mothers Red Wig Polaroids 1988 Altered States & Meltdown 1984 Toronto Ghost Photographs 1990
RYERSON UNIVERSITY, Toronto, 1994 Multimedia Program. Literature, Semiotics, Art History, Film, Video, Computer Graphics,
Photography Assistantships.
Robert Lyon (M.I.T.) PHOTOGRAPHER)1978
Berenice Abbott . Doyenne of Photography!! 1979 - 1985
Walter Lassally, DOP Oscar winning Cinematographer of the movie Zorba the Greek, maker of over 100 films. 2009 -2011
Photographic Portfolios : 1975/2013
My Fishy Friends 2019-2024
Dream Catchers & Tesseracts 2019-2024 Born in Stone, 2008-2013 Neo Crete Sculptures 2008
Al Greco's Crete 2005
Montreal Graffiti 2004
Golden Rock Installation Images 2005 Amid Summer's Wildflowers 2004 Cartoon Society 1998/2000 Greenwich Village Cartoons 2000
Sacred Sadhus Portraits 1998
Holy Cow 1988
Celebrity Portraits 1987
My Mothers Red Wig Polaroids 1988 Altered States & Meltdown 1984 Toronto Ghost Photographs 1995 Tell Me Something Portraits 1984 Graven Images 1985-2008
Street Mysteries NYC 1983
Images de Montréal 1980
Pictures from Around the World 1977 / 2020
Photographic Exhibitions:
Algis had his most important retrospective at the Vilnius Art Gallery, Lithuania (1998), Nouveautes Emergence Exposition, Place des Citoyens, My Fishy Friends, Group Show Sainte Adele Quebec 2019
Born in Stone. Composites. ICI PAR LES ARTS, St-Jèrôme, Québec, June- July 2014; NATIONAL ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, Athens, Greece One man Show with Born in
Stone Sponsored by the Canadian Embassy Jan-March 2015
Holy Cow. A portrait of India from the sacred Cows' POV. 1988 . Exhibited in solo exhibitions at Center for Photography @ Piramel Gallery, Mumbai,
India, OK Harris Gallery NYC, Lithuanian Museum of Art, Chicago, Galerie Mistral, Montreal, , Fuji Film Gallery
Kaunas , Lithuania
Côte St-Luc Library, Montreal , Cartoon Society, manipulated Polaroids. 1999
Fuji Film International Photo biennial, Vilnius Lithuania. Gold Winner with Altered Stataes. Catalog and traveling exhibition. Lithuania 1996
Goethe Institute. Madras, India Solo show of Altered States. 1995
The Red Wig Project: My Mothers Red Wig. Sponsor Polaroid featured on the CBC Newsmagazine. 2005 United Nations Environmental Committee, Toronto Lecture and Photographic participation in the World
Environmental Summit, Rio de Janeiro 1992
Arnold Gottlieb Gallery, Toronto. Group show with Altered States Feb. 1992
Montevideo, Uruguay Group show 1992 Altered states
A Moment in Time Gallery Toronto. Group Show Nov.1991
Communique, Toronto Audio-Visual environmental presentation with Altered States.1990 Award winning Images from an Communication Awards, Toronto
Galerie Delacroix, Tangiers , Morocco Solo Show of Moroccan Mosaic @ the French Embassy 1990
Vilnius Art Gallery , Vilnius Lithuania Solo Show of 5 portfolio’s 1990 Touring Show Ciurlionio Galerija. Chicago Illinois Group Show with experimental work. 1989 Toronto’s Photographers Workshop, Annual X- mas Show 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993 Idee Gallery, Toronto Solo Show of Graven Images 1988
Mexico-Canada Photographic Exchange, Group show of Canadian Photography. Mexico City Museum 1988
OK Harris Gallery, New York City. Solo Show of Graven Images 1988 Axe Neo-7 Hull, Quebec Solo Show of Tell me something Portraits. 1988 ArtFest, Skowhegan, Maine, Group show 1987
International Art Competition New York City @ Gallery 54 Select Group show. Bronze medalist with Meltdown 1987
Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario Solo Show of Tell me Something Portraits, 1987
Gallery 44 Toronto, Group show "New Photographics", 1986. Ontario Arts Council Grant. Museum Of the Borough of Brooklyn Brooklyn NY Group show on Greenwood cemetery
Curated by Shelly Dinhofer 1986
Marcuse-Pfeiffer Gallery, New York City, Group Show OFF THE WALL curated by Charles Gatewood 1985
Galerie Photogramme, Montreal solo-show of Street Mysteries. Rave review in Popular Photography 1984; also shown at Stewart Hall Art Gallery Pointe Claire
Other shows at: Heritage Montreal, Montreal des Montrealais, Tout de Tout, Galerie Byron. Photographer various publications — 1995-2013
THE GAZETTE (Montreal) cover story travel-photography, featuring Greece, Hong Kong, and India (1996-2005).
GLOBE AND MAIL Freelance 1996-1998
Photoart Magazine, Greece,https://fotoartmagazine.gr/ photographers/ KemezysAlgis/ index.html
Pop-See-Cul Magazine, 2006 Montreal, Cover and Portfolio inside of Holy Cow https:// jp.pinterest.com/pin/155514993357906148/
NOW MAGAZINE (Toronto) over 1,000 photographs on wide variety of subjects --Editorial, events, politics, arts-- during ten years on staff (1985-1995).
PHOTO LIFE (Toronto) Holy Cow articles in 1991 and 1992.
PHOTO DIGEST (Toronto) ALTERED STATES (1993); article (1994).
PHOTO SELECTION (Montreal) STREET MYSTERIES (1984); SELF PORTRAIT (1985); ALTERED STATES (1994); HOLY COW (1998).
DARKROOM PHOTOGRAPHY (California) ALTERED STATES (1989); with
interview and 5 pages of ALTERED STATES (1990). USA #1 Creative Photographic Magazine in the World.
Also published in: L.A.TIMES; BOSTON HERALD; PEOPLE; TORONTO STAR; TABLES; NEMANAS; TRAVELERS INDIA; CAMERA CANADA; FACES OF CANADA; LIVRE D'OEUF;
GLOBE&MAIL; TORONTO LIFE; MACLEANS; HINDUSTANI TIMES; TIMES OF INDIA; INDIA EXPRESS; PHOTOGRAPHERS FORUM; JAZZIZ MAGAZINE; AMERICAN THEATRE MAGAZINE; EAST ANGLIA TIMES; MORNING SENTINEL;
My Movies on the WEB.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2681518/?ref_=tt_cl_dr_1
http://www.youtube.com/AlgisKemezys
https://www.filmaka.com/member-profile.php?user_id=17892
Feature & Short Movies
My Fishy Friends 2024 International Film Festival winner of over 100 awards. 36 IMDB
awards: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30590565/? ref_=nm_flmg_knf_t_2 The Messenger Hermes Remembers 2019 Winner of over 100 awards all around the globe at International
Film Festivals. 30 IMDB Awards: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6951954/? ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cred_t_2 Masterclass with Walter Lassally http:// imdb.com/name/ nm2681518/ Platinum Remi Winner at the
42nd WorldFest .
Houston International Film Festival for Masterclass April 2009 MasterClass 4th Video Festival, City of Imperia, Italy April 14th to 18th 2009
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece 2009 MasterClass an official program selection of the Florida Media Market Global ! ! Conference 2008 (screening on October 25, 2008 at 8:15 pm) Media Factory Show TV #23 by NetShows on the Cox Cable Network ! ! !
Mortar and Pestle: CineTech Future Fest, Poland 2024 IMDB https:// www.imdb.com/ title/tt1986902/? ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_cred_t_3
Shapeshifter 2007 30 minutes. @ Culture Unplugged: https:// www.cultureunplugged.com/ documentary/ watch-online/play/6061/ shapeshifter IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1414264/
MIMETOLITHS: Director-videographer-editor. 2006 60-min. documentary feature. Cyprus International Film Festival 2006 , Asterfest, Macedonia and
Ecofilms Festival Rodos May&June 2006 Charlotte, North Carolina’s Cackalaky Film Festival
United Nations Environmental Program Film Festival 1986
The Night Gallery Film Festival, and in all four locations (Alaska, Arizona, Oregon, New Zealand
http://imdb.com/title/tt1050252
FACES OF MYTH: writer-director-editor. 60-min. documentary feature. Official selection Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Greece,
2004); Maine International Film Festival (U.S.A., 2004); Ecofilm Festival (Rhodes, 2005); Distributor: Vtape (Toronto).
Filmaka, 2000 Movies by Algis Kemezys, https://www.filmaka.com/ member- profile.php? user_id=17892 WALL STORIES: 1990 Writer- director - videographer. 30-minute video, shown
in the Torino International Film Festival, and various video-art events.
THE CIVIL SERVANT:1995 Starring role. 30-minute dramatic film. Shown on the CBC, and festivals.
LAWN & ORDER:1998 major participant. Gemini-nominated film about gardens. CBC.
ALGIS, MON BEAU JARDIN: 1999 starring role and subject of 20-minute, prize winning video (First and
Second prize at Video-Est). Shown on Radio-Canada, Montreal and other Quebec festivals.
Other Art-Videos:
TALK KIDS; MARIE ANTOINETTE; IMELDA; CHICHENITZ AH; THE BIG ONE: videographer/director/actor Shown at Gallery 44 Toronto
Televised documentaries about Kemezys work:
PORTRAIT in STONE (CBC, 1994) about GRAVEN IMAGES. MY MOTHERS RED WIG (CBC, 1995).
HOLY COW (CNBC, 1998).
EDUCATION
WALTER LASSALLY MASTERCLASS 2008
RYERSON UNIVERSITY MULTI MEDIA 1984
Toronto, Multimedia Program> Literature, Semiotics, Art History, Film, Video, Computer Graphics,
WALTER LASSALLY Collaborator. Oscar winning DOP 2009 Worked on a number of projects with Walter.
BERENICE ABBOTT. APPRENTICE 1980 (M.I.T. PHOTOGRAPHER) 1979 FACES OF MYTH: writer-director-editor. 60-min. documentary
feature.NFB assistance. Official selection Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Greece, 2004); Maine
International Film Festival (U.S.A., 2004); Ecofilms Festival Rhodes, 2005; Distributor: Vtape (Toronto). feature. NFB assistance. Official selection Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Greece, 2004); Maine International Film Festival (U.S.A., 2004); Ecofilms Festival (Rhodes, 2005); Distributor: Vtape (Toronto).
WALL STORIES: Writer-director-videographer. 30-minute video, shown in the Torino International Film Festival, and various video-art events.
THE CIVIL SERVANT: Starring role. 30-minute dramatic film. Shown on the CBC, and festivals. LAWN & ORDER: major participant. Gemini-nominated film about gardens. CBC.
ALGIS, MON BEAU JARDIN: starring role and subject of 20-minute,
prize winning video (First and Second prize at Video-Est). Montreal Shown on Radio-Canada, and festivals. Other Art-Videos:
Televised documentaries about Kemezys' work:
PORTRAIT in STONE (CBC, 1994) about GRAVEN IMAGES. CBC
MY MOTHER'S RED WIG (CBC, 1995). HOLY COW (CNBC, India 1998). Landscape Art & Sculpture
Neo Crete Sculpture 2007 & 08
Christmas Tree Cemetery , Montreal 2003 Outdoor Exhibition in front of The University of Montreal Algis Mon Beau Garden 2000 Winner in Cineast 2001
Multimedia gardens in Montréal (1996-98): Stonehenge; Jurassic Park; Easter Island; Atlantis;
The Stone Pilgrims of Crete, Plakias, Crete Landscape Art around the Church.Published in Greece 2000/2001
The Golden Rocks in the Laurentian Forest,Val David 2002
Collections that have my Photographs
Ilford Canada
Polaroid Canada
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Toronto
American Antique Society Budry’s Lithuanian Photo Archive
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario Photo Art Society Lithuania, Lithuania Delacroix Gallery French Embassy, Morocco
Cott Canada
Lithuanian Museum of Art , Chicago
Awards
IMDB 60 Awards for My Fishy Friends & The Messenger Hermes Remembers
Ontario Arts Council 1984
International Art Competition NYC Bronze medal 1984
International Environmental Photographic Art Competition , Lithuania Gold Medal 1996 MacWorld Convention Art Gallery *Digital Masterpiece NYC 1999 Garden of Fantasy Award Montreal City 2004
Best Documentary Mimetoliths @ Panorama Film Festival Greece 2006 People Choice Award @Night Gallery Film Festival 2006
Algis Kemezys has made many Cover photographs for literary books; stills for films, theatrical posters, album covers, photography anthologies, and guide books.
Television and Radio: Algis Kemezys has been on several documentaries regarding his work by CNBC & CBC television. He also has done many
radio interviews from around the world. You can see some here.
www.algiskemezys.com
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