Oliver Husain, first trained in cinema in his native Germany, arrived in Toronto in 2006 as an accomplished filmmaker and performance artist. Husain's film work eschews the typical framing which allows the audience to be omnipotent to some degree, instead opting to constrain the viewer's point of view so as to be aligned with his characters and their partial and discrete views. Husain has increasingly worked with elements of cinema and performance inside of the gallery space, bringing the sweeping and absorbing narrative power of cinema into the gallery and creating transformative experiences.