Lindsay McIntyre

​​Lindsay McIntyre engages filmmaking as a material practice. For over two decades, she has experimented with manipulating the properties of celluloid, creating a diverse body of films grounded in labour, collaboration and process. Working between documentary, experimental film and expanded cinema performance, McIntyre’s oeuvre reflects on displacement from Inuit Nunangat, place- and land-based methodologies, Inuit community, and survivance, often in conversation with her family history.

At the Contemporary Art Gallery, McIntyre presents Tuktuit, a film installation exploring the interconnectedness of lichen growth, caribou populations and land use in the North. The film, which depicts McIntyre processing a caribou hide, incorporates footage shot on 16mm film made with caribou gelatin emulsion, and is projected on the hide it depicts. Alongside the installation and across CAG’s façade are related caribou hide works and photographs thereof, which extend Tuktuit’s concerns with labour and intergenerational knowledge.

The exhibition is accompanied by What We Never Lost, an offsite presentation at Yaletown-Roundhouse Station featuring multiple-exposure stills from Seeing Her, a film that places McIntyre’s filmmaking in dialogue with her great-grandmother Kumaa’naaq’s skilled beadwork.

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.