Derek Jenkins: Artist-In-Residence

Factory Media Centre is pleased to announce that Derek Jenkins is one of our 2023 &NOW Artists in Residence!

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Photo credit: Natalie Hunter

Open Studio – May 8-12, 2023
Artist Talk – May 11, 7pm

&NOW Artist-in-Residence Derek Jenkins is a motion picture photographer whose practice is handmade, personal, and documentary, with an interest in the reciprocal relationships between tools, materials, and ways of knowing. His new multichannel project uses a single roll of film shot in 2016 to consider form, reproduction, and desire. Join him at Factory Media Centre for an open studio and brief artist talk on Thursday May 11th at 7:00pm.

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About the Artist:
Derek Jenkins (Canada/USA) is a motion picture photographer born in Monroe, Louisiana in 1980. 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. He received a BA (2003) and an MA (2008) in English from the University of Arkansas, and an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University (2021). His films, including Contents (2018), The Shouting Flower (2019), Livestock (2019), and Grounders (2020), have been exhibited at festivals, museums, and galleries, including DocLisboa, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, McMaster Museum of Art, ARKIPEL – Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Antimatter Film Festival, the8fest, FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter, Photophobia, Media City Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Mimesis Documentary Festival, and non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, among many others. He is Executive Director of Hamilton Artists Inc., a board member at Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, and has also worked as a technician at Niagara Custom Lab. He lives and works in Hamilton, Ontario.

About the Project:
Train-ing: An Exaggeration will be a technological analysis of the short film work Train-ing (2016) as the filmmaker subjects the images to various, entangled, and exaggerated methods of format migration and auto-critical reflection.

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About the Residency:
FMC’s &NOW Production Residency is an opportunity for artists and creators to utilize the space and resources at FMC to produce a new work or continue a developing body of work.