FMC is pleased to present the 17th Annual Members Screening. This screening welcomes work by new and returning members, and showcases a selection of Hamilton’s diverse media artwork.
Thank you for tuning into the Watch Party on Monday December 5th!
Featuring works by:
Alejandro Franco Briones, Alex MacLean, Alex Ramsay, Angela Josephine, Bhavika Sharma, Bawaadan Collective, Corinne Duchesne, Derek B. Jenkins, Eli Nolet, j a r s, Jessica Rodríguez, Jordyn Stewart, Mark Prier, Natalie Hunter, Olivia Fasullo, PauTheRebel, Pascal Bennett, Robert Hamilton, Sandra Lim, Tee Kundu
Screening Program:
Bawaadan Collective
Neo Woodland In Gma
About the Film:
One (semi-autobiographical) Anishinaabe journey from the shores of Neyaashiinigmiing, to the landscape of Detroit. A synesthetic, post modern woodland metaphor. A meditation on the urban Indigenous experience, and a disconnect from the land.
Credits Neo Woodland In Gmaj Produced / Written / Directed / Score Neebeesh Elliott / Bawaadan Collective
Artist Bio:
The Bawaadan Collective is an Indigenous Collective made up of a diverse and highly skilled membership of artists and collaborators, each focused on narrative change and capacity-building in our individual right. Our members have professional and educational backgrounds ranging from community development work; youth advocacy, amplification, and engagement; project management; non-profit sector experience; early childhood education; Indigenous language revitalization initiatives; Indigenous governance; Indigenous post-secondary education; social justice education; policy development; advancement of Indigenous-led educational programming; to creative arts practices, including film and costume production, mural installations, and youth arts projects.
Pascal Bennett
Home Poem
About the Film:
A small cathartic art piece comprised of imagery from the family home and garden (my sacred space) set to a poem I wrote, dealing with the progression of my Dad’s Parkinson’s Disease, and my shift from carefree youth to adult with responsibilities.
Artist Bio:
I’m a video creator from South Africa who’s found a sense of home in Hamilton. I have a background and working history in television, news and documentary and I have always endeavoured to create my own works throughout. I have an artistic sensibility that is all about the immigrant experience and tales that blend fantasy with reality and challenge our perceptions of what is real.
Alejandro Franco Briones (UHM)
Monster City / Ford City. A brief Exchange of Letters
Artist Bio:
UHM is a transamerican group interested in computer languages, time, and art. Most of their conceptual interests reside in researching mesoamerican temporal-philosophies. They have presented their work in situations like the FilMishMish transmission by Radio Alhara with the premier of the algorithmic, sonic documentary Dos Sures, and the second Network Music Festival, presenting In Xiuh Ce Amatl, the first live-coded audiovisual documentary. Core members are Alejandro Franco Briones and Rolando Hernández. Among UHM´s projects stand out, Topologías Temporales, a 2 hour long experimental opera for percussion ensemble and 1 performer, the algorithmic sound documentary Dos Sures, which was presented in FilMIshMish, a 72 hour sonic protest against Jerusalem´s occupation in collaboration with Radio Alhara (Palestine). Since 2020, they are working on a trilogy of live coded documentaries trough a software called Estuary : In Xiuh Ce Amatl (2020), Temazcal 2 (2022) and Land Acknowledgement (In process). Although each project has a different group of people and they try to keepanonymous as possible, the core of this group is conformed by Alejandro Franco Briones and Rolando Hernández.
Olivia Fasulo
Millennial House Tour
About the Film:
People are living in more and more creative spaces, including this stylish refurbished shed. Follow our resident millennial, as she shows us an influencer lifestyle in a housing crisis.
Artist Bio:
Olivia Fasulo is a writer and director based in Hamilton, Ontario. A McMaster grad, Olivia currently co-owns Bella Mia Bridal with her mother Anna. She also founded Referendum Productions, a female-led production company which focuses on equality in storytelling and pushing new boundaries. Her works have been featured at the Hamilton Fringe Festival and the Hamilton Film Festival, as well as on Amazon Prime and Tubi.
Sandra Lim
Lights
About the Film:
“Lights” is from a series of 1-minute short video essays which creatively document urban space and my daily commute.
Artist Bio:
Sandra Lim’s creative practice is grounded in the field of Artist film and Video in the British tradition, as well as music. Her work is characterized as a blend of documentary, art and expressive performance with respect to the blending of moving and still images and original scored/arranged music. She has been making work in this field since 2006. Her creative practice encompasses work with archival material and family photographs, as well as ongoing practice documenting urban space. In the latter, she uses simple structures and rhythms found in the material she captures and experiences in daily routines, environment and surroundings, as the principal mode of organization for each work, to express a sense of mood, place and time. She also lectures on politics and film at the Toronto Metropolitan University.
Natalie Hunter
Natalie Hunter: Time, Light, and Sensory Experience
About the Film:
Natalie Hunter: Time, Light, and Sensory Experience is a video artist statement that serves as documentation of a solo exhibition in July 2022 at Centre[3] For Artistic and Social Practice. Video footage from How Dim Died the Sun, How Far Hung The Sky accompanies voice-over of the artist speaking about her work. The artworks featured were made between 2019-2022.
Artist Bio:
Natalie Hunter was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She is the recipient of many Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grants, and Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Creation Project Grants. She has shown her work in public art galleries and artist-run centres, including: Rodman Hall Arts Centre, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Smokestack Gallery, Hamilton Supercrawl, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Windsor, Centre[3] for Artistic + Social Practice, Factory Media Centre, Hamilton Artists Inc., Latcham Art Centre, Museum London, Propeller Art Gallery, John B. Arid Gallery, Gallery TPW, and the University of Manitoba School of the Arts Gallery, among others. Her work has been featured in Hamilton Arts and Letters, Femme Art Review, The Gathered Gallery, Other Peoples Pixels Blog, Canadian Journal of Culture Studies, and BlackFlash Magazine. She holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo where she is a sessional instructor, and received an Excellence in Online Teaching Award (2017). She lives and works in her home city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Alex MacLean
Planktonic Space
About the Film:
Phytoplankton are the primary producers of the aquatic world. All marine life would not exist without them. Their livelihood is dependent on the right combination of nutrients in their ecosystems. Not enough and they perish, but too many nutrients can result in harmful algal blooms that can cause great marine damage to marine life as well as humans. This piece aims to demonstrate the delicate balance between phytoplankton populations, nutrients, and human activity through an immersive sound art experience. Audio was done with Pure Data, visuals were done with Processing.
Artist Bio:
Alex MacLean is a software developer and new media artist based in Hamilton, ON whose passion for art and technology guides his practice investigating themes of human ecology with a heavy focus on the auditory realm. His works and performances have been included at international conferences and festivals such as ICLC, NIME, and the Network Music Festival and he is also a recipient of the 2022 City of Hamilton Arts Awards Shirley Elmore Emerging Artist Commission Prize. Locally, Alex is a member of McMaster’s Cybernetic Orchestra, a live-coding laptop ensemble
PauTheRebel
Sonhadora(Passenger Dreams).mp4
About the Film:
A commuter’s passage of time, this is a glimpse of the inside of what a her daydream would be like. As she disassociates from the world, we witness her thoughts in visuals and sound. Sonhadora(Passenger Dreams).mp4 is an animation piece presenting a portion of that daydream, and how her fantasies are spatial, ethereal, dream wave-like, and are well immersed as we look into and onto her eyes. Music has been provided from pak. (Sonhadora= Dreamer from Portuguese)
Artist Bio:
PauTheRebel is a Brazilian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist residing in Oakville, Ontario and also has a new home on the internet. Their practice consists of drawing, illustration, mixed-media, video and animations; including a love for creating narrative and characters that pair with her current themes. She is curious of retro technology and programs as part of her practice; with themes including nostalgia, love, gender, and mental illness. Currently they’re absolutely in love with vivid colour schemes. They recieved a BFA in Studio Art at McMaster University as of this year, and is the recipient of the 2022 Ignition Award from Hamilton Artists’ Inc. and also the 2022 SUMMA People’s Choice Award from McMaster University.
Eli Nolet
grief poem
Artist Bio:
Eli Nolet (they/them) is a queer interdisciplinary artist from the occupied territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Mississaugas (otherwise known as hamilton, ontario). Currently studying at McMaster University towards a B.F.A. in Studio Art, their practice is conceptually focused and questions the binaries of visible/invisible, normative/transgressive.
Alex Ramsay
Exit Wound
About the Film:
Exit Wound is compiled from a personal archive of digital video, 35mm photographs and improvised recordings which were collected over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Edited entirely on an iPhone, the work seeks to interrogate the relationship between the camera as an extension of the human eye, and the mutability of the digital image.
Artist Bio:
Alex Ramsay’s a freelance journalist, editor and filmmaker residing on the Territory of the Erie, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Neutral and Mississaugas.
Derek B. Jenkins
As close as your voice can call
About the Film:
A film about language, about the way trauma inflects grief, and about learning to speak with the dead.
This work engages a personal archive of children’s books owned by my late mother, many of which feature her signature. I had encountered Deanna Bowen’s “sum of the parts: what can be named” (2010), which attuned me to the lasting power of these traces, so I began to think of the signatures as a connection to my mother. I decided to use them to perform a kind of ad-hoc seance where I learned to copy her signature exactly. This forgery opened me up to other vectors of memory: A pedagogical dance, Koko the Gorilla, an old episode of Reading Rainbow. I used these elements to explore the ways that trauma interferes in the process of grieving, and the ways abuse shapes memory.
Artist Bio:
Derek Jenkins (Canada/United States) is a motion picture photographer based in Hamilton, ON. His practice is handmade, personal, and documentary, with an interest in labour, ecology, and technology—specifically the reciprocal relationships between tools, materials, and ways of knowing. His films have screened widely, most recently at Fracto Film Encounter, Antimatter [media art], DocLisboa, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, the 8fest, and ARKIPEL International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival. His installations include a sound work, “The E6 Process” (2018), at Factory Media Centre as part of HAVN’s Sonic Art Series, and a film loop, “Contents” (2109), in Minding the Archive at Hamilton Artists Inc. In 2020, his film work, “Livestock,” was installed at McMaster Museum of Art as part of the exhibition, Animals Across Discipline, Time and Space. For several years, he worked as a technician at Niagara Custom Lab. He is Executive Director at Hamilton Artists Inc.
Jordyn Stewart
To play a daredevil’s advocate
About the Film:
To play a daredevil’s advocate is a 6 minute performance for video where I flip through a photo album and discuss each image to the viewer through documentary-style narration. The images are a series of 24 photographs that collectively speak to tourism and daredevil culture that has surrounded Niagara Falls since the 1820’s. Throughout the video I highlight significant daredevils that were lured to the power of the Falls, specifically focusing on Annie Edson Taylor and her experience as the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive. The video was produced with support from the Ontario Arts Council.
Artist Bio:
Jordyn Stewart is an artist and arts administrator based in Niagara. She received her MFA from the University of Waterloo and her BA from the University of Toronto, join program with Sheridan College in Art & Art History. Her work has been programmed in spaces across Southern Ontario such as Art Museum, Hamilton Artists Inc., Trinity Square Video, Idea Exchange, and Gallery Stratford. In 2022, her work screened at the Small File Media Festival in Burnaby, BC and OORtreders Festival in Pelt, BE. Jordyn is currently the Co-Chair at Hamilton Artists Inc. and is teaching in the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Corinne Duchesne
Water
About the Film:
Water and Movement, ethereal observations with sound.
Artist Bio:
An award-winning artist for over twenty-five years, Duchesne has exhibited in Canada, the U.S., South Korea, and Europe. Originally from Quebec, now living in Ontario, Corinne is a graduate from the Ontario College of Art (now recognized as OCAD U) studying during her final year with Tom LaPierre in Florence, Italy. At present, Duchesne is a full time faculty member in the Faculty of Animation, Art and Design, at Sheridan College, and is a professor of Drawing.
Bhavika Sharma
Seated on the Shore of Whiteman’s Creek
About the Film:
Several images of Whiteman’s Creeks’ riparian corridor loop throughout the video; images and captions glitch with each transition. The saturated, high-contrast animated images, visually akin to a stock photo, attempt (and fail) to mimic the creek’s flow. Small pauses in the audio narration and matching captions occur; one caption reads “My father was a visitor. His father was forced to leave.”
Artist Bio:
Bhavika Sharma (B.A. Visual Studies, University of Toronto) is an interdisciplinary artist based in T’karanto/Toronto. Through uncovering alternative, personal, and unwritten narratives relating to built landscapes, their practice seeks to expand on non-dominant histories; flora, fauna, creeks, and lived experiences become new markers for reading landscapes. Bhavika’s practice is produced through glitching, transforming, tethering, and taking apart to unravel complex narratives of place and re-imagine safer futures.
Jessica Rodríguez
Agua
Artist Bio:
Jessica Rodríguez is a multimedia artist, designer and researcher. She is currently studying a doctorate program in Communications, New Media, & Cultural Studies at McMaster. Her practice and research projects focus on audiovisual practices such as visual music, electronic literature, video experimentation, sound art, visualization/sonification, live coding, among others, collaborating with composers, writers, designers, and other visual artists. She is co-founder of andamio.in, a collaboration platform that uses digital and analogue technologies to explore with text, visuals, and audio. She is also part of RGGTRN, a collective that engages in algorithmic dance music and audiovisual improvisation informed by Latinx experiences. She has participated at Sound Though (2016/17 Glasgow, Edimburg), International Symposium of Electronic Art (2015 Vancouver, Canada / 2017 Manizales, Colombia), International Conference on Live Coding (2017 Morelia, México / 2018 Madrid, España / 2019 Limerick, Irlanda), Sound + Environment (2017 Hull, Inglaterra), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (2016/17/19), SEGNALI (2017 Italia), Seeing Sound (2016 Bath, Inglaterra), among others.
Tee Kundu
Untitled
Artist Bio:
Tee Kundu is an interdisciplinary artist, illustrator & designer. They mostly draw things. In addition, they often work in social practice, performance, zines, facilitation, etc. They want to be a storyteller, and they want to be helpful. A DIY dabbler, you can find them on instagram @lukitstee or email them at teekundu@gmail.com.
Robert Hamilton
Chair Swing
About the Film:
Rhythmic ride on the giant Chair Swing.
Artist Bio:
Robert Hamilton, Canadian, is a recognized media artist. He studied at the Institute of Chicago and the Jan Van Eyck Academie in The Netherlands. His research primarily involves video, photography, animation and interactive gallery installations. Since 1986, Robert Hamilton’s artwork has been presented in numerous international festivals, galleries and museums. His work has exhibited in such venues as Hilversum Museum, The Netherlands 2008; Museum of Contemportary Art in Castello, Spain 2005; and Transmediale in Berlin 2004. His video work has won awards such as the German Video Art Prize and The Chicago Film Festival Silver Hugo Award.
Angela Josephine
Without Ending
Artist Bio:
Angela Josephine is a modern fusion dancer living in Hamilton, Ontario. She is known for her expressive and evocative work that combines her 8 years of training in raqs sharqi and fusion bellydance with experimental movement concepts. In 2019 she was awarded the Hamilton Arts Award for Emerging Artist in the Performing Arts category. Most recently, she was honored to be a part of the [un]wrap: Global Citizenship in Motion Show hosted by CU Boulder. You can study with Angela at Mahasti the Creative Emporium where she teaches fusion bellydance workshops.
j a r s
lifesocks
About the Film:
In an ethereal dreamscape, two creatures come in contact with one
another.
Artist Bio:
j a r s is a furry creature born in the northern outpost of Winnipeg, and resides in the industrial wastelands of the GTHA. They have multiple degrees and various accolades, many of which are completely fictional. j a r s is a prolific maker, and more than anything loves to create weird and queer thing-objects. They form one half of the video game dev team “resnijars” with their partner, Resni.
Mark Prier
The Hoave/Ecken & Laish(hellothisisalex live performance for Fluxible)
About the Film:
A live performance for the 2021 Fluxible conference. “The Hoave/Ecken &
Laish” was written specifically for this performance, then recorded on
webcam.
Artist Bio:
Mark Prier’s artwork examines the interaction between culture and ecology. Working from diverse sources, such as botany, folklore, geology, and history, he rearticulates this examination into sculpture, installation, performance, sound, and video. He has collaborated with environmental conservation workers, cast seed for urban birds, started restoring an acre of farmland to the documented pre-colonial forest, and created large-scale sculptures reimagining suburban fence posts.
His exhibitions include shows in Canada, Mexico, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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