Peter Vronsky
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Peter Vronsky is a
1970s
Peter Vronsky was a writer and film reviewer for Canada's national film magazine
1980s
Peter Vronsky created numerous video art tapes and formal video installations exhibited in Canada and internationally in Tokyo, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, New York, and London.
1990s
Vronsky was the writer-producer-director of Mondo Moscow, a feature-length documentary on incipient Stalinism and underground culture in the USSR, 1990.[7] In 1991, Vronsky investigated Lee Harvey Oswald's activities in the USSR in 1959–1962 and was the first Westerner ever to interview Oswald's friends, lovers and acquaintances in Russia.[8] Vronsky was the cameraman-line producer on The Hunt for Red Mercury, an investigative one-hour documentary (Discovery Channel – CTV) on nuclear weapons material smuggling in Chechnya, 1992. He was the writer-director of The Uncanadians, a NFB feature documentary 1994–1995 (but withdrew his name from the director's credit in a dispute with the National Film Board over the film's controversial contents). Vronsky was the Head of English Language Production, Panavideo, Venice Italy – service producer for Italy's national television network, RAI, 1997–1999.
2000s
Vronsky was the Queens Park/Toronto Bureau Chief at E-Press, Canada's first online news streaming service, 2000 and the Broadband Content Specialist, Canada-Invest.com, financial news streaming service, 2000–2001. He was the Director of Photography on the feature-length music documentaries, Life Could Be A Dream (Bravo Television, 2002) and I'll Fly Away Home (Bravo Television, 2004). He authored two crime history books,
- University of Toronto, Trinity College, Honours B.A., 2003.
- University of Toronto, Graduate School, M.A. (History) 2004.
- University of Toronto, Graduate School, Ph.D. (History), 2010.[9]
In 2015, Leah McLaren, writing in The Globe and Mail, reported on the strange disappearance in Cambodia of Dave Walker, a friend of Vronsky's.[10] According to McLaren, Vronsky was working hard to determine what happened to Walker, when the Canadian government seemed to want his story to be forgotten. Walker had told Vronsky that he had worked as an advisor for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) ferreting out genocidal Khmer Rouge perpetrators infiltrating Canada among legitimate refugees from Cambodia during the 1980s and 1990s. Vronsky suspected this could have played a role in his death in Cambodia.
Currently
Vronsky is currently writing American Werewolf: The Life and Crimes of Richard Cottingham, the Last Serial Killer on the Left based on a series of prison interviews he is conducting with the notorious serial killer
Vronsky currently lectures at Toronto Metropolitan University's History Department in international relations, American Civil War, Third Reich, espionage and the history of terrorism. In 2017, he was chosen as the Writer-In-Residence at the Toronto Public Library.[12] He recently appeared in Joe Berlinger's new Netflix show, Crime Scene (Season 2): The Times Square Killer (2021) about the 1979–80 torso murders in New York committed by serial killer Richard Cottingham who Vronsky is in the midst of interviewing since 2018.
Peter Vronsky is fluent in English, Russian and Italian and resides in Toronto, Canada, and Venice, Italy.
References
- ^ "9 New Books We Recommend This Week". The New York Times. November 2018.
- ^ a b Vanguard Magazine, November 1983, p. 47; Art London Review, Vol IV No. 3, March 15, 1984; John Bentley Mays, "Peter Wronski presents a garage sale of a show, Toronto Globe & Mail, January 21, 1982, p. E3; Lisa Balfour Bowen, "Even Sadat's death becomes stuff of wry comedy for innovative video artist", Toronto Star, January 16, 1982, p. F5; Susan Mackay, "Confession booth among video wizardry", Globe & Mail, August 15, 1984, p. M9; Dan Proudfoot, "The Video Art Vortex", Toronto Sun, October 28, 1984, p. S3; Christina Ritchie and Allan Blaine, Signal Approach, Catalogue to accompany the video series Signal Approach, held at The Funnel Experimental Film Theatre, Toronto, January 9 – March 13, 1985, The Funnel, 1984: http://mikehoolboom.com/thenewsite/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Signal-Approach.pdf; http://www.rewind.ac.uk/documents/Steve%20Hawley/SHA008.pdf
- ^ "Danger Man: The Underground Adventures of Peter Wronski", Metropolis Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, June 9, 1988; Enrico Sorrentino, "Due Marine per Lee", L'Espresso, February 23, 1993, p.61.
- ^ "Peter Vronsky's Crash 'n' Burn movie". The Last Pogo. October 27, 2013. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
'In 1977 I was living on top of the New Yorker Theater on Yonge Street in a loft below the projection booth. Everybody knew me in the building and when the Ramones and Dead Boys came down to play I grabbed a 16 mm sound film camera from the University of Toronto Hart House Film Board – a big Arriflex BL — and started shooting the concert.'
- ^ "a low, low budget". Cinema Canada. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
Fast Company is a story of people in jeopardy, a love story set among small time bank robbers aspiring to the big time. The producers, Paul Eichgrun/Steve KJys and director Peter Wronski are not interested at this time , in making an "artistic" mm or a "message" mm. We want Fast Company to be an entertaining, interesting, and at times touching film, free of cumbersome statements on the meaning of life.
- ^ Peter Vronsky (August 23, 2010). "Russian Rock Underground Part 1 (1988)". Archived from the original on December 14, 2021 – via YouTube.
- ^ "MONDO MOSCOW". www.russianbooks.org.
- ^ "Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia Main Menu". www.russianbooks.org.
- ^ "Dissertations | Department of History". www.history.utoronto.ca. July 14, 2016.
- ^ Leah McLaren (September 11, 2015). "Why a Canadian's death in the jungle is likely to remain a mystery". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
As for Dave Walker, friends and family around the world tried to keep the case alive, and a Toronto-based criminal historian and blogger named Peter Vronsky – a close friend of Mr. Walker since the early 1990s – continues to compile an exhaustive account of his death and the subsequent investigation.
- ^ https://www.newjerseynewsnetwork.com/story/41523136/author-the-torso-killer-suspect-in-at-least-another-12-murders-in-new-jersey https://www.nj.com/bergen/2020/01/new-jerseys-torso-killer-admits-murdering-3-teenage-girls-over-50-years-ago.html
- ^ "Meet Peter Vronsky, Writer in Residence".