Philip Szporer is a Montreal-based filmmaker, writer, and lecturer. He has been immersed in the Canadian dance world for over 40 years. He teaches in both the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability at Concordia University. In 2001, Philip along with Marlene Millar co-founded the acclaimed Montréal-based award-winning media arts production company, Mouvement Perpétuel. As co-directors they create impressionistic dance-media films, arts documentaries and multi-channel video installations, feature expansive choreographies and portraits of some of Canada/Quebec’s leading contemporary dancers and choreographers and from across cultures within the Americas, Europe and Asia. He also co-founded dance + words, with writer-filmmaker Kathleen Smith, to disseminate ideas and facilitate conversations around dance and movement arts across Canada. Media works include a stereoscopic (3D) live action/animated film Lost Action: Trace, created with choreographer Crystal Pite and animator Theodore Ushev, addressing the revolving cycles of human conflict through contemporary dance; 1001 Lights, a gallery/museum installation- projection project based on the Sabbath candle-lighting ritual; Bhairava , a site-specific dance- for-camera film, featuring dancer and choreographer Shantala Shivalingappa, evokes facets of Shiva, the Lord of Dance, as both the destroyer of evil and the guardian of time; and the celebrated Inquiry into Time and Perception studies draw the viewer into a state of presence expanding the private worlds of imagination, dreams and memories. Recipient of the 2010 Canada Council for the Arts’ Jacqueline Lemieux Prize, and recognized with a Distinguished Teaching Award from Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts in Spring 2016, Philip has been Scholar-in-Residence at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and a former Pew Fellow at UCLA. He contributes to The Dance Current, Dance International, and Tanz.