Lindsay McIntyre

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Please join us for a screening of works by Lindsay McIntyre at The Cinematheque on the occasion of McIntyre's exhibition Distance Between Objects, Time Between Events. A conversation between McIntyre and CAG curator Godfre Leung will follow the screening.

This program features experimental shorts by Lindsay McIntyre that each explore what was left behind by her great-grandmother Kumaa’naaq, and what is missing. Seeing Her is a silent portrait depicting the beaded front panel of Kumaa’naaq’s amauti. Edited in-camera on hand-processed Super 16, the hypnotic animation parallels the abundant skill, technique and labour of the parka’s making with McIntyre’s studied, hands-on analog filmmaking. though she never spoke, this is where her voice would have been. features a Fisher Price audiotape recording made by McIntyre at age eight. Addressed repeatedly in the looping soundtrack but never actually heard is Kumaa’naaq’s voice, which had been inadvertently taped over in the recording, tragically erasing the only known time-based record of her. The haunting narrative documentary her silent life. traces the deep and unspoken intergenerational resonances of Kumaa’naaq’s displacement from the North and the disappearance of McIntyre’s grandmother Marguerite from their family.

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WARNING: This program contains flashing lights and high-contrast images, which may affect photosensitive viewers. This event is being held at The Cinematheque whose venue accessibility information can be found here.

ASL interpretation for the talk is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact learning@cagvancouver.org to book or for more information.

Biography

Lindsay McIntyre is an artist and filmmaker of Inuit and mixed settler descent who explores place-based knowledge, material practices and personal histories in her experimental/documentary shorts. Her films have received numerous awards and accolades and have been presented at Anthology Film Archives, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the National Museum of the American Indian, Rovaniemi Art Museum, and in film festivals worldwide. NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind) (2023), her recent leap into narrative, garnered her Best Short at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and a submission to the 2025 Academy Awards. Her related first dramatic feature, The Words We Can’t Speak (in development), won the Women in the Director’s Chair Feature Film Award. She is a fellow of Sundance Native Lab (2024), Forge Projects (2024) and the COUSIN Collective (2022), and teaches Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on unceded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver.