[2] For the next two years he traveled around the world, which led him to decide that he was not interested in pursuing a career in business.

In 1967 he took a short filmmaking course from Stan Fox, a producer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

Rimmer dropped out of graduate school at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in 1968 to become an artist.

[citation needed] Rimmer moved temporarily to New York City from 1971 to 1974, and worked with such vanguard artists as Yvonne Rainer.

In the early eighties, Rimmer took a four-year hiatus from filmmaking to teach film and video at SFU.