Filmography

2024 Grimm Future. Three channel, 4K video installation. Currently in process, with two videos complete and one in final sound editing stage, expected completion: fall 2024.

2022  I attempt from love’s sickness to fly, in vain. Newly digitally remastered and colour corrected and output in 4K and 5K. Screenings:

  • Official selection of the Miami Women Film Festival, nominated for an award in the “Best Experimental Film” Category. Miami, FL. December 3, 2023.
  • Official selection of the Montreal Women film Festival, award winner in the Best Experimental Film category. Montreal, QC. October 29, 2023.
  • Official selection of the indieFEST Film Festival, La Jolla California, August 29, 2023
  • Official selection of the 11th Logcinema Art Films, award winner in the Best Experimental Film category. Los Angeles, CA. July 4, 2023.

2021 Subjoy Ride, exhibited in:

  • The Baroness Elsa Project, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB. 2022
  • The Baroness Elsa Project, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON. 2021
  • Wrong Wave 2022: Symphony of Fire, Cinemateque, Vancouver, BC.
  • Hexennacht Festival – 2022 live stream

2021  Bewegung and Novembertag – a sketch. Commissioned by NOW for their Youtube Channel TV8E. Screenings:

  • TV8E Season 2 Episode 5 – Pterodactyl , 2021.
  • Hexennacht Festival – 2022 live stream
  • International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation – Improvisation Festival 2022 live stream

2019    The Scholar’s Study: Studio Still Life. Exhibited in:

  • The Scholar’s Study, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2019.

2018    The Scholar’s Study: Still Life. Screened/ Exhibited in:

  • Official selection of the San Diego Independent Cinema Awards, award winner in Best Experimental Film category. San Diego, CA. January 16, 2024.
  • Official selection of the SHORT to the Point Festival, Bucharest, Hungary. September 8, 2023.
  • Inherit, Kate Henderson, curator. Art Gallery at EVERGREEN, Coquitlam, BC. 2022.
  • The Scholar’s Study. Republic Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2019.
  • 13 Ways to summon ghosts. Kimberly Phillips, curator. Gordon Smith Gallery, North Vancouver, BC. (catalogue). 2018.

2017    I attempt from love’s sickness to fly, in vain. (2017 colour correction, 2k version) Exhibited in:

  • I attempt from love’s sickness to fly, in vain. In conjunction with the Capture Festival of Photography. Republic Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2017.

2017  fr@Zu8Kuj, c.1981. Super 8mm film transferred to digital video. Created in collaboration with Harold Hejazi, camera Ryan Ermacora. Exhibited in:

  • Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive. Ryan Doherty, curator. Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB. 2023. 
  • Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive. Mona Filip, curator. Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto, ON. 2020.
  • Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive. Bruce Grenville, curator. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2017.

2016    The Rehearsal. 16mm film transferred to digital video. Created in collaboration with Evann Siebens, sound design by John Oliver. Exhibited in:

  • Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive. Bruce Grenville, curator. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2017.
  • The Natalie Brettschneider Archive. Michelle Jacques, curator. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC. 2016.
  • The Natalie Brettschneider Archive. Heather Anderson, curator. Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON. 2016.

2015    Shadow Puppet. Video installation. Exhibited in:

  • too much light is blinding, Claudette Lauzon, curator. SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, BC. 2022. (catalogue in process for publication, fall 2024)
  • Shadow Puppet.  Laurance Playford-Beaudet, curator. The Art Centre Powell River, Powell River, BC. 2021.
  • Shadow Puppet. Republic Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2015.

2012    Every day I take the same photograph. Every day the photograph is different. Quicktime movie from digital stills. Exhibited in:

  • Again and Again and Again: Serial Formats and Repetitive Actions. Daina Augaitis, curator. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2012.

2011    Wood Work. 8 single channel video segments, created from historical 16mm film footage. Public Art Commission from the City of Vancouver. Exhibited in:

  • Public Video Installation, CoreVision Screens. Robson and Granville, Vancouver, BC. Premiered summer 2011, reprised August/September 2012, reprised again November 2020.
  • Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest. Haema Sivanesan, curator. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC. 2018.
  • Silva: Booming Grounds. Jesse Birch, curator. Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC. 2015.

2010   Wellenfliegel. Single channel video. Exhibited in:

  • Vancouver 125: Time-Based. Marlene Madison, curator. Brockton Oval, Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC. 2010.

2009   Proscenium. Single channel video. Exhibited in:

  • Proscenium. Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC. 2020/2021.
  • Theatre Theatre. Gregory Elgstrand, curator. Evergreen Art Gallery, Coquitlam, BC. 2016.
  • Culture Shock: video interventions at the QET. Stephanie Rebick, curator. Queen Elizabeth Theatre Lobby, Vancouver, BC. 2010.
  • Proscenium. Republic Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2009.
  • How Soon is Now. Kathleen Ritter, curator. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2009.

2008    Vacant Lot. Two channel video. Exhibited in:

  • Vacant Lot. Republic Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2008.

2008 Water Park. Exhibited in:

  • Cue: Artists Video. Daina Augaitis and Christopher Eamon, curators. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2010.
  • Water Park. Christopher Brayshaw, curator. CSA space, Vancouver, BC. 2009.

2008 Music Video and Date Stamp. Created in response to an artist residency at the Vancouver Public Library in 2008. Exhibited in:

  • Trace Ingredients. Part of the exhibition series Memory Palace: Three Artists in the Library. Karen Love, curator. 2008. (Publication).

2003    Pillar. Single channel VHS video. Exhibited in:

  • Here. Part of Artropolis 2003. Donna Szoke, curator. Vancouver, BC. 2003.
  • Going a Journey. Kate Rimmer, curator. Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2003.

2003 Cambie Street Bridge. Single channel VHS video. Exhibited in:

  • The Most Violent Thing. Vanessa Sorenson, curator. Republic Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2008.
  • Here. Part of Artropolis 2003. Donna Szoke, curator. Vancouver, BC. 2003.
  • Going a Journey. Kate Rimmer, curator. Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC. 2003.

2003 Mylar Card. Single channel VHS video. Exhibited in:

  • ReCollect. Two person show with Mary Kavanagh. Corinna Ghaznavi, curator. A Space, Toronto, ON. 2005.
  • Here. Part of Artropolis 2003. Donna Szoke, curator. Vancouver, BC. 2003.