Author: Curtis

For over a year I have been involved in a documentary project titled: The Imperfectionist.  The doc, directed by Jonathan Le, is about me and my creative process focusing mainly on my attempt to bring the Thrift Shop Band to life.

The Thriftshop Band is an automated music machine meant to serve as a backup band for a live musical performance. 

This project is designed to be the successor to my previous theatrical band The Secondhandpants.  I have been working on this for over two years. 

This year’s Christmas film stars my little tree character, Bome Gnomeski.

The result of a two week artist residency at Deep Bay Cabin in Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, Canada in August, 2015. An exploration of characters, visual ideas and music regarding a feature film I hope to produce one day.

Queen Hazel and the If-Pigeons is a song novel (concept album) I conceived and created in the twilight of my 20’s.  A decade later, I rediscovered it and was inspired to continue work on the project. 

It is my tradition to make a short film every Christmas.  This past December (2014) I decided to give my puppet, Walter, his first real staring role in this short musical film.

A short film documenting a search for the obscure cowboy balladeer who inspired the music for Curtis L. Wiebe’s short film, Of Truth and Magic.

Trailer for the short film – Of Truth and Magic

Released in June of 2014 in Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Stills from my short film project “Of Truth and Magic”. Release date: 2014.

Production on “Of Truth and Magic” took place between 2010 and 2011.

Here are some behind the scenes photos of the production as well as a short video by Mr. M. Wiebe (my creative consultant, collaborator, go-to camera operator and brother Marlon).