Karim Hussain

Karim Hussain (born July 16, 1975) is a Canadian filmmaker and cinematographer. As a director he is best known for his 2000 film Subconscious Cruelty,^[1] and as co-writer of Nacho Cerdà's The Abandoned.^[2] In 2006, he adapted French-Canadian writer Marie-Claire Blais' work, La Belle Bête. For it, he won the Director's Award at the Boston Underground Film Festival.^[3]

A native of Ottawa, Ontario, he is the son of writer Nancy Vickers.^[4]

Filmography

Director

Films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
2000	Subconscious Cruelty	Yes	Yes	Also editor camera operator, additional makeup effects, sound editing and sound mix
2002	Ascension	Yes	Yes	Also associate producer and camera operator
2006	The Beautiful Beast	Yes	Yes	Also producer and camera operator

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
2002	La dernière voix	Yes	Yes	Also producer
2011	Vision Stains	Yes	Yes	Segment of The Theatre Bizarre

Cinematographer

Films

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2000	Subconscious Cruelty	Himself	With François Bourdon
2002	Ascension
2006	The Beautiful Beast
2009	Walled In	Gilles Paquet-Brenner
2010	Territories	Olivier Abbou
2011	Hobo with a Shotgun	Jason Eisener
2012	Antiviral	Brandon Cronenberg
2013	L'autre monde	Richard Stanley	Documentary
2015	We Are Still Here	Ted Geoghegan
	Beeba Boys	Deepa Mehta
	Hyena Road	Paul Gross
2016	Rupture	Steven Shainberg
	Madame Hollywood	Olivier Abbou
2017	Mohawk	Ted Geoghegan
2018	Parallel	Isaac Ezban
	Seven in Heaven	Chris Eigeman
2019	Random Acts of Violence	Jay Baruchel
2020	Possessor	Brandon Cronenberg
2021	Seance	Simon Barrett
2022	Firestarter	Keith Thomas
	Orphan: First Kill	William Brent Bell
2023	Infinity Pool	Brandon Cronenberg
2024	Dark Match	Lowell Dean

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1999	Divided Into Zero	Mitch Davis
2001	Facts Are Safety	Nicolas Debot
2002	La dernière voix	Himself Julien Fonfrede
2006	Au coeur brisé	Antoinette Karuna
2009	Dolorosa	Christophe Debacq
2010	The Aristofrogs	Ben Bernschneider Douglas Buck Jan Hendrik Drevs Arno Frisch John A. Gallagher Buddy Giovinazzo Matthew Harrison
2011	The Theatre Bizarre	Richard Stanley Douglas Buck Himself	Segments "The Mother Of Toads", "The Accident" and "Vision Stains"
2012	The Captured Bird	Jovanka Vuckovic
2013	Method	Gregory Smith
2015	Jooj: Shoulders and Whispers	Brandon Cronenberg
	Whispers and Shoulders	Sook-Yin Lee
2016	Animalia: Face On	Brandon Cronenberg
2019	Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You