NightCastle Productions
UNSUNG SIII EpXIX CRAIG BERGGOLD: THE INTERSECTION OF DEMAND AND AGENCY, THIS IS Basic Income Canada
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Intro Music: Mike and the Mechanics, Album: Living Years, Song: The Living Years
Outro Music: Justin Becker, Song: The Wake
CRAIG'S BIO:
Currently, Craig is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University, where he received a SSHRC Doctoral Graduate Scholarship and a Douglas Sheppard Wilson Film Fellowship. Craig teaches media production, cultural studies, art history and labour studies.
He is a Teaching Fellow in the Film and Media Studies Department
where he has taught eight courses including:
FILM 336 – Film and Politics
Crossing Borders: Migration and Precarious Work in Globalization
FILM 435 – Culture and Representation
Speculative Fiction: Science Fictions Films and Alternative Social Models
At Queen’s, Craig is also former President (2014-19) of Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) Local 901 advocating for 2000 academic workers.
For ten years at Vancouver’s Emily Carr University of Art + Design Craig taught over 30 courses on video art, film production and experimental documentary practices.
In 2020, Western Front Gallery's exhibition included A Time To Change images from Craig's tenure as a photographer with the Canadian Farmworkers Union.
Up To Scratch screened at the AGO—Art Gallery of Ontario's Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries exhibition. In this 1986 art-as-activism collaboration, Craig's 16mm-short cut-out collage animation exchanges political narratives with Clive Robertson's song, choreographed bodies, and coalition beats. Exploding the populist music video form and set against the backdrop of unemployment.
Pocket Desert: confessions of a snake killer, co-directed with Teresa Marshall, has been broadcast nationally on The Discovery Channel and recognized with the Ecology Award at the WorldFest Film Festival. Nominated for 12 international awards, including Best Cinematographer and Best Documentary.
Fresh Talk: Youth & Sexuality was awarded the prestigious Gold Apple Award in Human Sexuality at the National Educational Film Festival, the Red Ribbon Award at the American Film Festival, and First Place at National Council of Family Relations, Washington, D.C..
Educate Your Attitude documentary challenges the censorship of young people's emotional experiences with powerful stories that empower peer's to gain a positive appreciation of their sexuality.
"The Colour of Food" is a historical photo essay of South Asian women farm workers and their organizing campaigns; and, "Canada: Mexico found guilty of blacklisting pro-union migrant workers" is an expose of the temporary foreign workers program.
At Simon Fraser University’s Special Collections Library Craig is the lead researcher for The Canadian Farmworkers Union Archive Project.
In 2017, he received the Public Service Alliance of Canada-Ontario Activist Award for Outstanding Contribution Protecting Workers' Rights.
Craig is a co-founder of the Vancouver MayWorks Festival of Working People and the Arts.
Today, Craig is a key organizer in The Case for Basic Income and the Arts campaign.