Michael Balser
Personal Info
Known For Director
Gender Male
Deathday 2002-01-01 (0 years old)
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.”
Known For
Director
1995
Positive Men
as Director
1992
An Evening With Richard Locke
as Director
1989
The Great AZT Debate
as Director
1988
Survival of the Delirious
as Director
Producer
1992
Voices of Positive Women
as Producer
Actor
1989
The Great AZT Debate
as Himself