Michael Balser

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

-

Deathday

2002-01-01

Place of Birth

Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Michael Balser

Biography

Video maker, curator, producer, AIDS activist. New Brunswick-bred Michael Balser was part of the experimental video and Super 8 scene in Fredericton and Ottawa before finally putting down roots in Toronto in 1985. Balser continued his prolific output, combining activist documentary with experimental narrative and collage, up until his death in 2002. Dialogue said by an “AIDS Activist Action Figure” in his 1996 film Treatments might be thought of as his parting words: “...if I’m going to go, at least I’m going to go out fighting.”

Acting

1989

Production

1995

Positive Men

as Director

1989

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