Rick Raxlen

Raxlen considers himself an artist who uses film, rather than a filmmaker, whatever that means. Picasso said “It takes a long time to become young.” So Raxlen guesses he’s young now. Rick worked at the NFB when Lipsett, MacLaren and Larkin were there, taught at Concordia, and won one of only two Genies ever awarded to Best Experimental Film (then called Canadian Film Awards) for an image-processed West Coast Native legend about face-changing called “Legend.” His short avant-garde work …