Born in Toronto (Canada) to Swiss parents in 1958. He attended film studies at Toronto's Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. He has travelled extensively and lived in Switzerland periodically while working on various film projects.

Filmography

1980 Lancalot Freely / 1981 Gregory (both short films) / 1982 Scissere / 1985 Eastern Avenue (both experimental films) / 1989 The Top of his Head / 1992 Tectonic Plates (both fictions) / 1994 Picture of Light / 1997 Balifilm / 2002 Gambling, Gods and LSD / 2009 Petropolis – Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (all documentaries)