2020-2021
Lindsay McIntyre (Canada) is a film artist of Inuk and Scottish settler descent working primarily with analogue film. Her process-based works encapsulate themes of portraiture, place, form, and personal histories linking to Canada’s North. Her current research involves the autoethnographic exploration of intergenerational trauma, as well as a SSHRC funded research and creation project linking land use, art practices, cultural knowledge, and resource extraction in the circumpolar north. She holds an MFA in Film Production from Concordia in Montreal and a BFA with Distinction from the University of Alberta. She was a member of The Double Negative Collective and the recipient of the Canada Council’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Excellence in Media Arts for 2013 and the Hnatyshyn REVEAL Indigenous Arts Award. Her personal documentary Her Silent Life (2012) won Best Experimental Film at imagineNATIVE in 2012. Her award-winning short documentaries, experimental films, and expanded cinema performances have been seen around the world including at Ann Arbor, Anthology Film Archives, Pleasure Dome, Mono No Aware, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Analogica, WNDX, imagineNATIVE, Images, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Raindance, One Flaming Arrow, and Black Maria, and can be found in several permanent collections. She is a member of the EMO Collective and is an Assistant Professor of Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design on unceded Coast Salish territories.
McIntyre’s work asks for your time. If you’ve seen her films, even just the once, they stay with you, prodding and nudging you to think about them, to sit with them. —Taqralik Partridge
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