Princess Raccoon may be rooted in folklore, Western music, and traditional Japanese theater, but when it comes to
classic cinema conventions, the agenda is total derangement.
Born in 1960 in Vancouver, Canada, Douglas is known for his films, photographs and installations that use new and outdated technologies, the media of
cinema, TV and photography, the
conventions of various Hollywood genres (including film noir and the Western) and reference
classic literary works (notably, Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Marcel Proust, and Franz Kafka), to examine intersections of history and memory in evocative, mesmerising artworks.