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LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Fonds
No.: PR3764
TITLE: Alex and Joe Viszmeg fonds
CREATOR: Alex Viszmeg
DATE RANGE: 1977-1986
EXTENT: 7 film reels : 16mm [1 hr., 15 min.]
ADMINISTRATIVE
HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Alex and Joe Viszmeg were brothers from Baltimore, Ontario. In the 1970s Alex and Joe studied filmmaking at Ryerson University in Toronto and moved to Edmonton separately after graduating. Joe built a career as a documentary filmmaker, making such films as NFB documentaries In My Own Time: Diary of a Cancer Patient and My Healing Journey: Seven Years with Cancer. Joe died in 1999.
CUSTODIAL HISTORY:The films were in the custody of Alex and Joe Viszmeg until the death of Joe, at which point Alex took sole possession of the films until donating them to the PAA in 2013.
SCOPE AND CONTENT:

The fonds consists of films created by Alex and Joe Viszmeg. There are five separate films represented in the donation, three directed by Alex and two directed by Joe, though most of the films featured both brothers in some role.

Alex’s films include Corn, Meat, Manure & the Man (an experimental film about Viszmeg’s family farm in Baltimore, Ontario), Little Angels (an experimental film about the search for personal identity), and Lost in Another World. Lost in Another World is a short film project created by students at the Alberta School for the Deaf with the assistance of Alex and other Edmonton-based filmmakers such as Lorna Thomas and Karen Wall. In addition to the edited version of Lost in Another World, there are also two reels of elements from the same project.

Joe’s films include The Conversation (a short film about a night in the life of two couples who have just met) and Before the Last War (an experimental film about nuclear war).

LANGUAGE NOTE: The material is in English.
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