Occupation Filmmaker Alma mater University of Alberta | Years active 1999–2002 | |
Full Name Clinton David Morrill Born January 16, 1970 ( 1970-01-16 ) Edmonton, Alberta Died 25 February 2002, Toronto, Canada | ||
Clint Alberta, also known as Clint Morrill, Clint Tourangeau, Clint Star, and Clint Karatechamp, was a Canadian filmmaker.
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Life
Clint Alberta was born to a Native father and a White mother, Betty Morill. He studied psychology at the University of Alberta, where he counseled native children and solidified his own identity as a native person.
He became involved in the National Film Board of Canada's Studio One native program in Edmonton, where he made his first film, Lost Songs.
He based his best-known film, Deep Inside Clint Star, on a series of interviews he did with several friends from the Métis community. According to Katherine Asals, who edited the film, Alberta's influences for the film were "Freud and Matisse and pornography". She describes Deep Inside as "a look at native sexuality through identity, or identity through intimacy, or intimacy through perception of beauty and self." Alberta, who portrays an obnoxious pornographic performer in the film, undertook an extended battle with the National Film Board when they told him to cut a long silence from Deep Inside. The film received high praise at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000.
Alberta experienced a particular degree of poverty after releasing the film, living on the streets for several months after that.
On February 25, 2002, Alberta killed himself by jumping off the Prince Edward Viaduct.