He has completed four feature length works and numerous dramatic and experimental shorts. His films have shown Internationally at such film festivals as the Montreal World Film Festival, the Nouveau Cinema Festival, The Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival, and The  Vancouver International Film Festival.  

The works intersect the historical and the imaginary, the political and the poetic. Highly imagistic the films are visceral and erudite examinations of the emotional and intellectual conundrums of our contemporary lives.  

He was a Director Resident at The Canadian Film Centre and more recently an artist resident at The Banff Centre for the Arts.  

In 1996-1997 he completed a 70 minute 16mm feature film essay that reflects on the thought of Aldous Huxley.  

This film premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival, won an Award at the Best of the Northwest Film and Video Festival in Portland, Oregon where it was compared favorable with Errol Morris's "A Brief History of Time" , and was also selected for The Official Competition of The International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam -1997. It is distributed by THA Media (educational sales), Cinema Esperanca Internationally, and Water Bearers Films in the U.S.. The work has been sold to BRAVO! and European Broadcasters. 

Oliver has also been deeply involved in the study, theory, and application of new media imaging and authoring technologies and has been a research associate with the Centre For Image and Sound Research in Vancouver. As a member of WebWeavers Network Society he contributed to getting on-line the first cultural web site in Canada. He has written for hypertext, for the World Wide Web and for CD-ROM. He has presented at a number of international festivals. His hypertext documents are available on line and published in T|E|L|E|C|I|N|E|- the World Wide Web "Journal of New Media Authoring in the Digital Domain" -NorthWestern University, The University of Virginia Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, "Tech-Sci Culture" at The University of California, Santa Barbara, The University of Iowa, and The Centre for Social Theory, Keele University, U.K.  

In Jan. of 1999 he completed a visually rich, theoretical work on architecture and cultural form. "Building Heaven, Remembering Earth: Confessions of a Fallen Architect" is versioned as a 104 minute video,and as a five channel installation.   

"Building Heaven, Remembering Earth: Confessions of a Fallen Architect" is a co-production with The Banff Centre for the Arts.