Lindsay McIntyre
Directing
Biography
Lindsay McIntyre is a film artist whose works are often processed-based, involve documentary and experimental techniques, and she even makes her own 16mm film with handmade silver gelatin emulsion. She applies her interest in film chemistry, analog technologies, and structure to make award-winning short 16mm films and expanded cinema performances.
Known For
A rom-com about the adventures of a small town teacher, Kate Carter, going back to the city for her wedding. After a blizzard strikes, she is forced to travel with a stranger named Redford who leaves her questioning her future plans.
A Frosty Affair
A young man reflects on a past relationship and wrestles with its outcome.
Undertow
Cree director Alexandra Lazarowich riffs off classic verité cinema to craft a contemporary portrait of Métis women net fishing in Northern Alberta.
Lake
Lindsay McIntyre is a film artist from Edmonton of Inuk/European descent.
STALL
Renée arrives to her hometown of Ste. Anne after a long absence. Her brother and his wife are raising her daughter Athene as their own, and the return of the prodigal mother is a surprise to all involved. The tension between them grows as the questions that have been accumulating over the years await their answers.
Ste. Anne
A young transgender Indigenous musician and his rock band bring mumble punk to the Interstellar Rodeo. A rock ‘n’ roll survival story of a different stripe.
Jesse Jams
Another chapter of the 16mm dreamwave micro-hallucinations in National Parks across Canada.
You Are in Bear Country 5
Situated at the geographic centre of Canada, Baker Lake, Nunavut is the only inland settlement in the Canadian Arctic. Fixing its gaze on this stark landscape, McIntyre's haunting and sparse film uses hand-wrought black-and-white 16mm film in a meditation on place and personal histories.
where she stood in the first place.
A structural autotopographical study of lindsay's great-grandmother through what was left behind and what is missing. One of five works in the series Bloodline.
though she never spoke, this is where her voice would have been.
An Inuit mother and daughter, Kumaa’naaq and Marguerite, must negotiate the pressures of assimilation after relocating to a new life in the South in the 1930s. Based on a true story.
The South Wind
A satirical film featuring a housewife and her attempts at counterculture. A one minute film commissioned by the Images Festival in 2003 for their Minute Movies program. It was designed specifically for the experimental-film-lovin’ audience at the festival. It pokes a bit of fun at experimental filmmakers in general, and it actually demonstrates a valid but obscure technique. This technique took me almost two years to figure out, and I subsequently discovered that it was already known and was deliberately kept from me. It’s about sharing techniques instead of hoarding them, and having fun. It won Jury’s Choice and Audience Favorite at the CSIF $100 Film Festival, Best Film Overall at the Toronto One Minute Film and Video Festival and received Special Mention by the jury at The Festival International de Court Metrage in Lille.
How to Make a Phantastik Film
A looping 16 mm performance exploring the framework of tree/human relationships on unceded Pacheedaht territory at Fairy Creek. A site of civil disobedience, it is also a place of recognition, passion and dedication for the more-than-human beings with whom we share the planet. High-contrast images are hand-processed, optically printed, contact printed and altered, creating a portrait of this landscape and its employ at the hands of humans.
Worth More Standing
A single-subject portrait of a young Nunamiut athlete through the practice of his sport, which focuses on the materiality of film and its surface textures.
all-around junior male
Rendered in a dream-like pink hue, bernard gaspé uses layered in-camera juxtapositions to present a journey through the neglected architecture of the train tracks in Montréal’s Mile End.
bernard gaspé
Among the very few essential objects brought South from her home, Kumaa’naaq’s uluit manifest a dream in her great-granddaughter. One of five works in the Bloodline series.
what she would not leave behind.
Created with handmade and manufactured emulsions, Tuktuit explores the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichen, and land use. Lichen developers help process the images of a caribou hide being fleshed down to rawhide to make gelatin for handmade emulsion that is subsequently used to shoot the film.
Tuktuit: Caribou
The studio workings behind door 11a in the Ortona Armoury. An ode to a practice and place that should not be forgotten.
Room 11a, Ortona Armoury
An in-camera visual exploration of a little girl, her garden, and all that pertains.
In the Backyarden
Lindsay McIntyre is a film artist from Edmonton of Inuk/European descent.
leavings
Under the care of manned mechanical beings, we sit and wait in suspension. Held in abeyance, one cannot help but be captivated by these beautiful, hopeful, watchful creatures.