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  • Writer, Director and Producer

    Ariella Pahlke

    Ariella Pahlke is a documentary and video artist, curator, and educator. With a background in philosophy, Ariella has spent the past seventeen years creating documentaries and independent shorts, collaborating on multi-media performance pieces, curating, facilitating video projects with community groups, and teaching. Her film and video work has been shown on television, at festivals and in galleries throughout Canada and the U.S., and in Norway, India, and New Zealand.

     

  • Producer

    Barbara Badessi

    Originally from Italy, Barbara worked in the film industry before coming to Canada in 1985. After graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Barbara has worked as the Director of Production of the Centre for Art Tapes, the associate producer, production manager and post-production supervisor on Thom Fitzgerald’s feature film Beefcake, as the associate producer on Colin MacKenzie documentary Jerry Granelli – In the Moment. With Flashfire Productions Inc., Barbara has produced Ann Verrall’s half hour drama Rain (Best Atlantic Short Film, Telefilm Award at the 20th Atlantic Film Festival) for CBC, Shandi Mitchell’s half hour drama Baba’s House (2002 Gemini nominee - Best Short Dramatic Program) for Global TV and Ariella Pahlke’s one hour documentary Rock and Desire for Global TV and Burning Rubber for Bravo!

     

  • Cinematographer

    Christopher J. Murphy

    Since he began his freelance career in 2000 Chris has shot over 150 episodes of series television, award winning documentaries, dramatic shorts, performance art projects, commercials, and corporate productions.

     

     

     

  • Editor

    Angela Baker

    Angela’s long career as a documentary film editor has taught her many things, but the most helpful nugget is this: soaking a cut in alcohol never hurts. Burning Rubber is her favorite film!

     

     

     

  • Composer

    Lukas Pearse

    Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Lukas Pearse has been a creative musician since the late 1980s.

    Lukas' education includes studies in contemporary musicology at Goldsmiths College in London, UK, and contemporary music performance at Dalhousie, but he began by studying audio-visual art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and playing rock and folk music.

    Lukas is an avid improviser, and has performed on both acoustic double bass and electric bass guitar with innumerable original Halifax bands. He has also composed music for many diverse ensembles, as well as for dance and film. His sonic art installations and performances have been exhibited in various local galleries.

     

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    Featuring

    LUCAS DORAN

    LORI HERSBERGER

    STEVEN LAURIE

    LIZ MACDOUGALL

    MATT MEISTER

    LUKAS PEARSE

    JACQUELINE RIEMER

    RON SHUEBROOK

    BRAD WADDEN

    (in order of appearance)

    JASON BUNGAY • ALAN SAGAR • JIM PARKER • JERRY BILLARD • JIM SMITH • BRIAN SMITH • NATHAN MASCARENHAS • JEROME HILTZ • TRAVIS HUMPHREY • STAN LITTLE • SHANE SLAUNWHITE • DEVIN & SHAELYN WADDEN • DARREN & PAULETTE WENTZELL • BJ OICKLE • PATRICK CONRAD • NATASHA HIRTLE • JOEY LYNK • ARIELLA PAHLKE • BRYAN PARENT • NICOLE SCHNARE • OLIVER KÖRNER VON GUSTORF • ISABELLE BERTOLOTTI • SUE CARTER FLINN • MATTHEW REICHERTZ

    Also featuring

    MARK ALBERT • MELISSA ANDREW • SCOTT ALEXANDER • NICK BAGATIN • BARBARA BERRY • DOUG BLAND • PAULA BROPHY • AIMÉE BROWN • MICHAEL BRUNT • ANDREW BURGESS • BLAIR CAVICCHI • EDITH COSTELLO • RALPH CREELMAN • J.P. DEA • MELISSA DEMONE • AMBER DREW • STEVE ERNST • SAGE FORSYTH • CHRIS FRALICK • TRACEY FRALICK • MICHAEL GOLDEN • CHASTITY GREAR • SAM HENNEBERRY • JASON HUBBARD • JAMES JACKSON • CHRIS KELLY • JENNIFER KENDELL • JACOB KNOCK • SHAWN “KIDD” LANGILLE • CAROL ANNE LITTLE • WAYNE LITTLE • DON MACDONALD • MICHAEL MACDONALD • MARY ELLEN MACLEAN • JIM MACSWAIN • JEFF MASON • PHLIS MCGREGOR • ROBIN METCALFE • BEN MORIESON • MATTHEW MORRONE • BRUCE MURPHY • KATELYN NODDING • GUY OVERFELT • ÉTIENNE PAHLKE • ZELLA PEARSE • SCOTT PERROTT • PHIL POIRIER • ANGELA SLAUNWHITE • KERRI SLAUNWHITE • LANA SLAUNWHITE • MATTASON SLAUNWHITE • NINA SLAUNWHITE • VERNON SLAUNWHITE • PAUL SMITH • RYAN SUTER • RANDY SUTTON • LUKE TAYLOR • SHELLEY THOMAS • MIKE TOBIN • STEVE VIEIRA • TANYA AND BRAYDEN WADDEN • ANNE-MARIE WALSH • MITCHELL WIEBE • TREVOR WHEATLEY • COLBY YORK • ROBERT ZINGONE

    Original idea by

    REBECCA BARON & ARIELLA PAHLKE

    Narration

    ARIELLA PAHLKE

    Production Manager

    REBECCA BATTAGLIA-HANLON

    Additional Camera

    LOUIS BOUDREAU • SANDRA KIPIS • ARIELLA PAHLKE • JAN PEACOCK • BOB ZIMMERMAN

    Gaffer/Grip

    LOUIS BOUDREAU

    Sound Recordists

    LIS VAN BERKEL • BENOIT CHABER D’HIERES • JOHN GOODMAN • ARAM KOUYOUMDJIAN • BRIAN LAWLEY • STEPHEN OUTHIT • JIM RILLIE • IVO SCHLEPFER • SAMMY YI

    Stills Photographers

    SANDRA KIPIS • JULÉ MALET-VEALE

    Production Assistants

    MYRIAM ANDREU • NICK HADDOCK • SARAH MACLEOD • CHRIS PELRINE

    Craft

    REBECCA BATTAGLIA-HANLON

    Production Accountant

    LORNE ARMSTRONG

    Post Production Supervisor

    ROZ POWER

    Sound Editor

    ALEX SALTER

    Music Editor

    LUKAS PEARSE

    Post Production Facilities

    POWERPOST LTD.

    PowerPost Project Manager

    CHRISTOPHER FOST

    On-Line Editor/Colourist

    DOUG WOODS

    Re-Recording Mixer

    ALLAN SCARTH

    Clearances

    ELIZABETH KLINCK • LEE ANNE GILLAN

    Legal Services

    BOYNE CLARKE

    Insurance

    PRIME INSURANCE

    Bank

    ROYAL BANK OF CANADA

    Camera, Lighting,Video

    WILLIAM F. WHITE • 45 NORTH • CENTRE FOR ART TAPES

    Special Thanks

    BARB ALLEN • REBECCA BARON • MURIEL BARTLETT • VINCE BARTLETT • CHRIS BERGER • COURTNEY BLACKBURN • JODY BLACKBURN • GILLES BOUDREAU • NORM BROWN • SHAWN BURKE • JARED CALLAN • HARVEY CARVER • KIRK CHASE • ANNETTE CLARKE • PATSY COUGHRAN • ARNE EHMANN • ROHAN FERNANDO • CARMEL FORDE • FRAN GALLAGHER-SHUEBROOK • JULIE GLASER • PETER HARCOURT • NATHALIE JANIN • ALLAN JEWERS • LINDSAY JILES • JOANNE KERRIGAN • SUZIE KETÉNÉ • PHILIP LAPOINTE • PHIL LIVELY • JENNIFER LOVETT • SAM MACDONALD • TONY MATTHEWS • JAN MEYEROWITZ • JEFF MASON • SHAWN MASON • SCOTT MORASH • CHERYL NEWMARK • EDITH PAHLKE • CATHERINE PHOENIX • IAN PORTER • POWERS ROAD RESIDENTS • BRAD PURCELL • REG RANKIN • MICHAEL RICHARDS • ANDREW RICHARDSON • ELLEN REYNOLDS • KAREN RODRIGUEZ • BARBARA SAWATSKY • PETER SCHWENGER • JOHN SCOTT • KIRK SEABOYER • CLAUDIO SERA • LAURA SILVER • JENNIFER STOTLAND • ANDREA SUTTON • SHANNON TAYLOR • PAUL & MEL SHUEBROOK • CHAD SLAUNWHITE • JACQUIE THILLAYE • ANN VERRALL • SPENCER WESTHAVER • JEFF WHYNOT • MARK WHYNOT • 
    45 NORTH • BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT • CANADIANA RESTAURANT • CENTRE FOR ART TAPES • DOUBLE ZED AUTOMOTIVE LIMITED • EXHIBITION PARK • GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC • MUSÉE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN LYON • NATIONAL FILM BOARD ATLANTIC CENTRE • OVERALL COLLISION CUSTOM & RESTORATION • EVERYONE AT THE OVERALL SHOW & GO • POWERPOST LTD. • PRO HELVETIA SWISS ARTS COUNCIL • PROSPECT ROAD & DISTRICT FIRE DEPARTMENT • RÉSIDENCE TEMPORIM–LYON • SAINT MARY’S UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY • EVERYONE AT SOUTH SHORE IN MOTION • SOUTH SHORE SPEED AND SOUND • STREET PUNISHMENT • TANTALLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL • TECHNICOLOR • TIM HORTONS

     

    and everyone else who generously contributed
    to the making of this documentary

     

    Music & Artwork

    DAVID DIVINEY

    Hot Wheels, 2002 tire, PVC, piping, enamel paint 35.8" x 21" x 21" Collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

    LUCAS DORAN

    All Good! http://southshorens.blogspot.com

    LORI HERSBERGER

    Burnout, 2000 (from exhibition Transfert – Art in Public Space, 10th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland) DVD, 5 min. Courtesy of Lori Hersberger
    Burnout, 2002 (from exhibition Art Unlimited, ART Basel, Switzerland, 2002) DVD, 2 min. 20 sec. Courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg-Paris
    Burnout (#7/#8), 2002 rubber on painted wood 118" x 118" x 78.7" Courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg-Paris
    Burnout – School of Bad Ideas, 2008 DVD, 12 min. 25 sec. Courtesy of Lori Hersberger/Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich
    Hooked on you, 2001 acrylic on canvas 60" x 48" Courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg-Paris
    Lori Hersberger - Phantom Studies, 2008 Exhibition Musée D’Art Contemporain Lyon Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg-Paris
    Lori Hersberger is represented by
    Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg – Paris
    Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich
    Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin

    NOVA EXPRESS

    Cosmic Benefits Courtesy Innocenti Music

    SECOND LIFE

    Spotlights Courtesy Innocenti Music

    STEVEN LAURIE

    Donut Machine, 2008 Steel, engine, tire and automotive accessories 96" x 40" x 34" Collection of the artist
    Handheld Rubber Burner, 2005 Steel, engine, tire and automotive accessories 34" x 20" x 20" Collection of the artist
    Posi-Track Burnout Machine, 2008 Steel, engine, tire and automotive accessories 96" x 48" x 31" Collection of the artist
    Stationary Revving Machine, 2005 2 gas engines, steel frame, pneumatic cylinder, checker plate running boards, double blower, Boom Tube exhaust 58" x 58" x 32" Collection of the artist
    Wild Thing: Handheld Revver, 2005 Chainsaw engine, Inferno LED exhaust tip 12" x 24" x 9.8" Collection of the artist

    HANS MOONEN

    Burnouts, 1998 colour photographs (suite of 4) two 44" x 30", two 30" x 44" Collection of the artist and of Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery

    BEN MORIESON

    Action still – Burnout 2001, 2001 colour photographs six 20" x 30", one 30" x 20" photo credit: John Donegan Collection of the artist
    BURNOUT 2001 – PARTII, THE GAME, 2001 interactive video game Collection of the artist
    Burnout 2004 Close Up, 2004 DVD, 8 min., loop Collection of the artist
    Burnout 2004 Overhead, 2004 DVD, 12 min., loop Collection of the artist

    GUY OVERFELT

    Burnouts with my 1977 Smokey and the Bandit Trans AM 1998-2009 (unfinished) videotape, color, sound, 4 min. 32 sec. editor: Chris Seguine, music: Dio, Dying in America from Angry Machines, 1996, Mayhem Records, driver: Mark Thaler
    Burnout on paper with my 1977 Smokey and the Bandit Trans AM as a printing press using red BF Goodrich Scorcher T/A tires as the ink 1998-2009 (unfinished) rubber on archival BFK Reeves paper Collection of Bijan Fouladi

    LUKAS PEARSE

    Pneu Musique (Etude #1) for Double Bass and the Sound of Burning Rubber, 2007 photograph/collage 12" x 44" Collection of the artist

    JACQUELINE RIEMER

    On the Road, 1997 18 colour photographs each 7" x 5" Collection of the artist

    RON SHUEBROOK

    Dark Spring, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 96" x 144" photographed by Bob Housser Collection of the artist
    Provincetown Monkeyrope (For Albert Pinkham Ryder), 2003 charcoal on rag paper, 25.75" x 19.75" photographed by Zack Pospieszynski Collection of the artist
    Untitled (from Monkeyrope series), 2002 charcoal on rag paper, 25.75" x 19.75" photographed by Zack Pospieszynski Collection of the artist
    Untitled (from the Monkeyrope Series), 2003 charcoal on rag paper, 25.75" x 19.75" photographed by Zack Pospieszynski Collection of the artist

     

    for ÉTIENNE ZÉBÉDÉ BOUDREAU PAHLKE
    whose existence began
    during the making of this documentary

     

     

    Produced with the participation of Film Nova Scotia
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    Produced with the assistance of Canada Council for the Arts
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    Produced with the participation of Rogers Cable Network Fund
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    Produced with the assistance of the Nova Scotia Film Industry Tax Credit (logo)

     

     

    Canadian Film and Video Production Tax Credit Program
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    Linda Joy Media Arts Society
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    Produced and Developed in Association with Bravo!, a division of CTV Limited
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    Production Executive for Bravo!: Charlotte Engel

     

    Filmed in Nova Scotia – Lower Prospect, Terence Bay, Prospect Road, Halifax, Dartmouth, Kennetcook area, Bridgewater, Lunenburg County; and Toronto, Zurich, and Lyon.

    Ownership of this program is protected by copyright and other applicable laws.

    Unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition of this program could result in criminal prosecution as well as civil liability.

    © Road Mark Productions Inc. 2009