A multidisciplinary artist, Donigan Cumming works with photography, video, painting, drawing, sound, and text. His work is recognized internationally for its forthright and compassionate engagement with society and its forgotten members. Grounded in issues of representation, testing the boundaries between truth and fiction, his videos and multi-media works have addressed themes of memory and mourning, the aging body, economic disparity, visual taboos, and empathetic engagement. Retrospectives and dedicated programs of his work in video have been held at the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), Visions du Réel (Nyon), La Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), Pleasure Dome (Toronto), International Film Festival Rotterdam, Antitube (Quebec), Canadian Film Institute (Ottawa), The Lux Centre for Film, Video and New Media (London UK), Museum of Modern Art (New York), P.O.P. Cinema Festival (Taipei), Anthology Film Archives (New York), The Art Institute of Chicago and the Cinémathèque québécoise (Montreal). Vidéographe (Montreal) has released a DVD collection of 18 works, Donigan Cumming: Controlled Disturbance and The Canadian Film Institute published a book of essays on his videos (ed. Scott |Birdwise), Splitting the Choir: The Moving Images of Donigan Cumming (2011). Recent videos, Exit Interview and Out of Kerr’s Suitcase, premiered in 2014 and 2016.