All Round Junior Male
Lindsay McIntyre
Edmonton 2011, hi-contrast b+w 16mm with mono
optical, 7:30 min
A single-subject
portrait of a young Nunamiut athlete practicing his sport, focusing on the
materiality of film and its surface textures.
Lindsay McIntyre
is a film artist and creator from Edmonton, Alberta. She completed an MFA degree in Film Production at Concordia
University in Montreal and also holds a BFA in drawing and painting
from the U of A. She has also studied at the Kent
Institute of Art and Design in England and at the New School in New York. Specializing
in analogue film work that emphasizes documentary, experimental and handmade
techniques, her work has been shown at national and international festivals and
venues and won some awards. Her
short films sometimes circle themes of portraiture, place and form. She has created 23 short films and also
does film projection performance.
She generally prefers to do everything the hard way and her current
filmic obsessions involve handmade emulsion, 35mm motion picture pinhole
photography and all kinds of chemical manipulation of celluloid.
She teaches film production, handmade film, optical
printing, hand-processing and celluloid-based image manipulation. She is a member of Double Negative of
Montreal and the Very Nice Collective of Edmonton.