Kirk Tougas is a noted experimental film artist, cinematographer, producer, director, curator, and founder of the Pacific Cinematheque in Vancouver, Canada.

A creator of several experimental films, he has been described as a structural or conceptual artist. His experimental and personal films have broadly addressed three themes: the inherent nature of the medium of film (and later the medium of digital video) and its message; portraiture and self-image as a human phenomenon from cave walls to the selfie; and the poetics of a medium composed of image, sound, and time. He is best known for his politics of perception and the framing of perception, which, along with his other works, has been featured in exhibitions and installations at museums, universities, art schools, art galleries, and film/video festivals.