A Black Screen Too (2024)
Rhayne Vermette
A Black Screen Too, Rhayne Vermette, Canada, 16mm > digital, 2 min, 2024
A sequel to her earlier Black Rectangle, and reminiscent of Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren’s groundbreaking animations, Rhayne Vermette’s buzzing miniature A Black Screen Too is a burst of colour and movement undercut by darkness.—Toronto International Film Festival
After [Vermette’s 2014 film] Black Rectangle was created, a racist joke was found to have been inscribed in [Kazimir Malevich’s 1915 painting] Black Square, referencing a comic by French artist Alphonse Allais.—Joshua Minsoo Kim
Streaming Details
This film is available to stream globally.
Program Partners
This film is co-presented with Art Windsor-Essex and Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto.
Image credits: artworks, portraits and stills courtesy the artist © Rhayne Vermette.
About the artist
Rhayne Vermette (Canada) is a filmmaker and multimedia artist born in Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Manitoba, in 1982. Her work employs collage, photography, and analogue filmmaking techniques, emphasizing themes of place, time, and rhythm through layers of fiction, animation, re-enactments, and what the artist describes as “divine interruption.” She received a BA in Literature from the University of Winnipeg (2005) and studied architecture at the University of Manitoba. Her films, including take my word (2012), Black Rectangle (2014), Extraits d’une famille (2015), and Domus (2017), have screened at museums, festivals, and galleries internationally including New York Film Festival, Canadian Film Institute, Melbourne International Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Viennale, Jeonju International Film Festival, Valdivia International Film Festival, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, and Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective. She is the recipient of a Mosaic Film Fund Award from Winnipeg Film Group (2011), a PLATFORM Photography Award from PLATFORM Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts (2019), and her first feature film Ste. Anne (2021) was awarded the Toronto International Film Festival’s Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film. She was shortlisted for the 2024 Sobey Art Award; her accompanying exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada continues to April, 2025. She lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba.