Curtis Wehrfritz

Curtis Wehrfritz is a Canadian film and music video director and artist.[1] He is most noted as the winner of the Juno Award for Video of the Year at the Juno Awards of 1993, for his video for Leonard Cohen's "Closing Time".[2]

Other artists for whom he has directed videos have included Chalk Circle, The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Cochrane, 54-40, Holly Cole Trio, Blue Rodeo, The Tea Party, The Philosopher Kings, Odds, Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts, Mae Moore, Cassandra Vasik and Crowded House.

In 1999 he directed the theatrical feature film Four Days.[1] He subsequently left filmmaking, and pursued work in visual arts, working primarily in daguerreotype and wet plate photography.[3]

  1. ^ a b Dan Brown, "Canadian noir delivers". National Post, November 12, 1999.
  2. ^ Chris Dafoe, "Women have come a long way at Junos: Celine Dion, who hosted last night's ceremony, and k.d. lang were the big winners in a show where female performers dominated most of the major categories and Anne Murray was given Hall of Fames honours". The Globe and Mail, March 22, 1993.
  3. ^ "Toronto’s must-see art shows: Galleries". Now, May 6, 2015.