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http://charlesfairbanks.info

Short Biography:
Charles Fairbanks is a wrestler and filmmaker. His films are not necessarily about wrestling, but they’re all made by grappling – in one way or another – with other people, and with how they see and engage the world. His recent work focuses on pro wrestling in Mexico, where the artist fought as the One-Eyed Cat (El Gato Tuerto) with a camera built into his mask. Fairbanks' films are informed by documentary, anthropology (especially participant observation), visual art and film. Fairbanks grew up in rural Nebraska until a wrestling scholarship took him to Stanford, where he studied Art and the History of Science. In 2008, with support from the Jacob Javits Memorial Scholarship, he worked with Brussels-based SIC (Sound-Image-Culture) to learn experimental ethnographic film. In 2010 he received his MFA from the University of Michigan, and was selected by Werner Herzog to take part in the first Rogue Film School.