Born in Nanaimo, BC, and a former Winnipeg resident, Holden now splits his time between Toronto and Vancouver Island. Trains of Winnipeg: 14 Film Poems, the feature length film cycle portion of a project that included a website, a book and a CD, screened at multiple festivals around the world and was recipient of the New Vision Award at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. His current project, Utopia Suite, is an ever-growing, interconnected “suite” of experimental films and quasi-fictional film essays, short stories, cinema-based art, sound and game works, film and photo-based media murals, and experiments in social media and community outreach.