Derrick Belcham

Derrick Belcham is a Canadian independent filmmaker and theatre director best known for directing The Take Away Shows, Juliana Barwick: Nebula, Otis Walks Into The Woods and The Antlers: Hotel.
==Career==
Belcham's first contribution to La Blogotheque's Take Away Show series, a web and television series focusing on musicians presenting their works in raw and personal settings, was an intimate performance by Wilco at L'Olympia Theatre in Montreal, QC, in March of 2010. Belcham's collaboration with La Blogotheque would lead to him collaborating on more than 75 entries, with artists such as Courtney Barnett, Sharon Van Etten, Thurston Moore, Spoon, Perfume Genius, Neko Case, Weyes Blood, and many others.
Belcham received a Graham Foundation award in 2013 for a video series he made with musicians Julianna Barwick, Liz Harris, Bill Orcutt, and curator Jordan Stein at the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut.
In 2016, Belcham collaborated on a filmed improvisation at the Philip Johnson Glass House with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Carten Nicolai, the audio recording of which became Sakamoto's "Glass" piece, released on NOTON in September. In the same year, Belcham began working with choreographer Emily Terndrup on a series of multidisciplinary performances titled "The Wilder Papers," "Debut," and "Fable" at the Knockdown Center, combining the compositions of Bing & Ruth, Julianna Barwick, Blonde Redhead, and Hannah Epperson with a team of dancers and actors to create evening-length immersive theatre works.
Belcham created narrative music videos for artists like Colin Stetson, Julianna Barwick, Mary Lattimore, Dave Gahan, The Antlers, Marissa Nadler, My Brightest Diamond, Basia Bulat, Trixie Whitley, and Yamantaka Sonic Titan over the next five years, which were featured on Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, NME, and other notable sites.
"At Noon Fell A Darkness," a poetic depiction of Icelandic artists and poets moving into the near-endless darkness of an Icelandic winter, was Belcham's first feature-length documentary, released in 2020.
"Green To Gold," Belcham's second feature-length dance film, was released in 2021 and follows Bobbi-Jene Smith, Or Schraiber, and their daughter Dea as they relocate to a rural farm in upstate New York and traverse the dramatic changes of a tumultuous relationship. The soundtrack for the film is composed of songs from the Antlers' album "Green To Gold."
Belcham has collaborated with modern classical composers such as Noveller, Tristen Krasten Krause, and Brendon Randall-Myers on a number of experimental light-based films throughout the years, in addition to his narrative and performance-oriented films.
==Select filmography==
Year	Title 	Role 	Genre 	Music
2011	Everything Is Outta Site 	Co-Director (with Vincent Moon) 	Documentary and Installation	The Luyas, Yamantaka Sonic
Titan, Red Bird Studios
2012	Baryon 	Director 	Dance Film Series 	Taraka Larsen, Colin Stetson, Mauro Remiddi, Simone
Schmidt, Julianna Barwick,
Choreography: Stacy Grossfield, Melanie Maar, Haylee Nichele, Chelsea Bonosky, Chloe& Katherine, Mary Cavett)
2012	F.O.R.E.V.E.R 	Director Of Photography 	Narrative Short 	Prince Rama
2012	Moodslayer 	Co-Director (with Ruby Kato Atwood) 	Experimental Short 	The Luyas
2012	Music in Similar Motion 	Director 	Documentary 	Phillip Glass
2013	Beyond Light 	Director 	Music Video 	CFCF
2013	Graphic Score 	Director 	Documentary 	Bryce Dessner
Visual: Clara Claus, Brooklyn Academy Of
Music
2013	Heroes 	Co-Director (with Beth Gill) 	Dance Film 	Callers
2013	Hudson River Sessions 	Director 	Documentary 	Neko Case and AC Newman
2013	Music Now Festival: Philip Glass & Eighth Blackbird 	Director 	Documentary 	Philip Glass and Eighth Blackbird
2013	Music Now Festival: Sharon Von Etten 	Director 	Documentary 	Sharon Van Etten
2013	One 	Director 	Music Video 	Yamantaka and Sonic Titan
2013	Forcelessness 	Director 	Dance Film 	Sarah Neufeld
Choreography: Emily LeCrone
Performers: Kaitlyn Gilliland and Pierre Guilbault
2013	The Harbinger 	Director 	Narrative Short 	Julianna Barwick
2013	Wedding 	Director 	Dance Film 	Marissa Nadler
Choreography: Emily Terndrup
2014	Dead City Emily 	Co-Director 	Dance Film, Music Video 	Marissa Nadler
2014	Debut 	Co-Director (Emily Terndrup) 	Live Performance, Dance Film	Julianna Barwick, Mauro Remiddi (Porcelain Raft), Ruby Kato Attwood and John Ancheta (Yamantaka // Sonic Titan), David Moore (Bing & Ruth), Jessie Stein (The Luyas), Hannah Epperson and Reed Smidebush (Muuny)
Dancers: Rebecca Margolick, TJ Spaur, Emma Judkins, Brendan Duggan, Matthew Ortner, Ross Katen and Emily Terndrup
2014	Hotel 	Director 	Narrative Short 	The Antlers
2014	Night Sounds No 1 	Director 	Documentary 	Julianna Barwick at The Phillip Johnson Glass House
2014	Night Sounds No 2 	Director 	Documentary 	ARP at The Phillip Johnson Glass House
2014	Night Sounds No 3 	Director 	Documentary 	Liz Harris (Grouper) and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
2014	No Devotion 	Director 	Music Video 	White Hinterland
2014	Pressure 	Director 	Dance Film, Music Video 	My Brightest Diamond
2014	Sara 	Co-Director (Diane Cluck & Miguel Gutierrez)	Music Video 	Diane Cluck
Choreography: Miguel Gutierrez
2014	The Wilder Papers 	Co-Director (Emily Terndrup) 	Live Performance, Dance Film	Music: Julianna Barwick, Skyler Skjelset (Fleet Foxes), Sarah Lipstate (Noveller), Mauro Remiddi (Porcelain Raft) and Hannah Epperson
Choreography: Emily Terndrup, Mallory Lynn, Mariel Lugosch-Ecker and Austin Goodwin
Dancers: Emily Terndrup, Austin Goodwin, Mariel Lugosch-Ecker, Hannah Button, Amy Moore, Emma Judkins, Shelby Terrell, Kacie Boblitt, Brendan Duggan, Austin Tyson and Kenna Tuski
2015	A Table For One At The End 	Director 	Narrative Short 	Performer: Rosalie Lowe
2015	BAM: Next Wave Festival 2015 	Director 	Commercial 	Score: Jeff Curtin
Produced by Brooklyn Academy of Music
2015	Fable 	Co-Director (Emily Terndrup) 	Live Performance, Dance Film	Performers: Dan Walczak, Daniel Staaf, Rebecca Margolick, Kenna Tuski, Ashley Robicheaux, Maxwell Perkins
Set: Ruby Kato Atwood
2015	For Karen 	Director 	Documentary 	Laurie Anderson
Produced by Brooklyn Academy of Music
2015	Homeward Bound & Bookends 	Director 	Documentary 	Paul Simon
2015	Interior 	Co-Director
(Emily Terndrup) 	Dance Film, Music Video 	Adelyn Hopper
2015	Midnight 	Director 	Music Video 	Tor Miller
2015	Morning World 	Director 	Dance Film, Music Video 	Teen Daze
Choreography and Performance: Mary Cavett
2015	Never Were The Way She Was 	Director 	Dance Film, Music Video 	Colin Stetson, Sarah Neufeld
2015	No Unholy Mountain 	Co-Director (Ruby Kato Atwood) 	Experimental, Music Video 	Noveller
2015	Shake You Off 	Co-Director (Emily Terndrup 	Dance Film, Music Video 	White Prism
2015	Soft Spoken Words 	Director 	Dance Film, Music Video 	Trixie Whitley
Dancer: Georgia Usborne
2016	A Study On Effort 	Director 	Documentary Dance Film 	Choreography and Performance: Bobbi Jene Smith
2016	Harrowing 	Director 	Documentary Dance Film 	Choreography and Performance: Bobbi Jene Smith
2016	Nebula 	Director, Installation Artist 	Music Video 	Julianna Barwick
2016	Otis Walks Into The Woods 	Director 	Dance Film 	Mary Lattimore
2016	Overjoy to The World 	Director 	Music Video 	Blue Man Group
2017	Glass 	Director 	Documentary 	Ryuichi Sakamoto at The Phillip Johnson Glass House
2017	Impermanence 	Director 	Performance Film 	Peter Silberman
Dancers: Stephanie Crousillat and Rebecca Margolick
2017	Score The Sky 	Director 	Dance Film, Music Video 	Lost Horizons
Choreography: Nicole Von Arx
Dancers: Rebecca Margolick, Nicole Von Arx
2017	Mutiny 	Director 	Live performance 	Music bt: Patrick Breiner and Helga Davis
2018	[www.atnoonfelladarkness.com At Noon Fell A Darkness]	Director 	Feature documentary 	Alex Somers, Soley, Gyða (music), Gerður Kristný (poetry)
2019	If I Sound Happy, That’s Your Mistake 	Director 	Short dance film 	Matilda Sakamoto (choreography, performance)
2020	The Dichotomy in/convenient Figures 	Cinematographer 	Evening-length dance film w 	Francesca Harper (choreography)
2020	Shock Collar 	Director 	Short film 	Dave Gahan, Humanist (music) and Tracy Maurice (film)
2021	Strange Fruit 	Cinematographer 	Short film 	Jennifer Koh & Davone Tines (music, performance)
2021	Broken Theater 	Cinematographer 	Feature-length dance film 	Bobbi-Jene Smith and La Ma Ma Experimental Theater Club
2021	The Paris Duet 	Cinematographer 	Feature-length dance film 	Belinda McGuire and Doug Letheren
2021	Green To Gold 	Co-Director 	Feature-length dance film 	The Antlers and Emily Terndrup (co-director)
==Awards==
* 2020	Artistic Director’s Choice Award, Phoenix Dance Film Festival, Phoenix, USA - “If I Sound Happy, That’s Your Mistake”
* 2019	Best Cinematography Award, Madrid International Film Festival, Madrid, SPA - “The First Date”
* 2018	Best Documentary Feature Prize, Sonic Scene Music Film Festival, Trani, IT - “At Noon Fell A Darkness”
* 2018	Best Cinematography Award, Cinemuskoka, Ontario, CAN - “At Noon Fell A Darkness”
* 2018	Gold Savvy Award, Sound & Vision International Festival, New York, USA - “At Noon Fell A Darkness”
* 2013	Grantee, Graham Foundation, Chicago, USA, “Night Sounds”
==References==
Category:1980 births
Category:Living people
Category:Canadian filmmakers
Category:Canadian theatre directors
Category:People from Toronto
Category:Canadian people