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CERULEAN COLLAR is a Toronto based cinema collective consisting of Cameron Nash, Brendon Saarinen and Allsun Campbell. Cerulean Collar is involved in every stage of original cinema productions, with the aim of producing an unrelentless creative vision. Most recent works include Dysphoria (2016), WEARENOTWHOWEARE's "Death Valley" music video. Tape Place, a cyberpunk inspired drama, and Colours In Wake (2020). Like Son is set for 2024 release.

 
 

Allsun Campbell

Graduating from the Cinema Studies program at the University of Toronto, Allsun has always had a love for both the arthouse films of world cinema and the low brow trash aesthetic attributed to genre films and B movies. A merging of the two worlds using known tropes and metaphor to depict conceptual ideas and without favouring the rules of a traditional narrative structure or heavy realism, Allsuns’s approach to themes are done so through representational imagery. Allsun’s feature debut, Tape Place, was released in 2018.

 

Cameron Nash

Fascinated with film movements opposed to the status quo and alternative production techniques, Cameron began experimenting in visual narratives eventually paving the way to a cinema collective founded in 2016. Self financing a series of micro budget films uniquely his own and prefering improvisational techniques and self created limitations in the filmmaking process; he embodies authorship over ones work often serving as writer, director, cinematographer, and editor. His feature debut, Dysphoria, was released in 2016 with his follow up shorts, Colours In Wake (2020), In Hiding (2021), and Like Son set for 2024.

 

Brendon Saarinen

As an experimental composer, cinematic visuals have always inspired and influenced Brendons experimental compositions and creative work in music and film (Still Life Still, Dead Neighbourhoods, WEARENOTWHOWEARE). Brendons style weaves together layers of ambient sound, unconventional keys, and samples, creating a unique style that develops the thematic concepts and depth of a particular creative project. Alongside with his creative partner Eric Mayer, they craft idiosyncratic scores that challenge everything we know about original music in cinema.