Experimental Film Retrospective Screening at the Vogue Cinema

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm

Dividing Road Maps By Time Zones, 10 Years of Moving Pictures: 1999-2009. Selected Films by Amanda Dawn Christie, Wednesday, August 12 6:00 pm - 7:00pm, Vogue Cinema, Sackville, NB

New Brunswick Filmmaker, Amanda Dawn Christie, will be presenting a screening of experimental short films made over the past ten years. This will be her first screening in her home province of New Brunswick, despite the fact that her films have screened extensively throughout Europe, America, and Western Canada. This ten year retrospective screening will also be showing in Ottawa at the Canadian Film Institute in October.

Her experimental 16mm films are an extension of her background as a photographer and rely on hand-processing, optical printing, and other Do-It-Yourself strategies. She writes, shoots, and processes all of her own films, in addition to composing and performing all of the soundtracks. Her films are short and abstract representations colour and the human form. They have been described as lyrical visual poems exploring themes of memory, time, family, and transience.

Amanda Dawn Christie, born and raised just outside of Moncton NB began making films in Halifax back in 1999 at the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative. She then went on to make films in Vancouver with the support of the National Film Board of Canada and the Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society, while completing a Master of Fine Arts degree at Simon Fraser University. Following her MFA, she moved to Amsterdam for a year, and was an artist in Residence at the 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam. After her year in Amsterdam, she returned to New Brunswick, where she now lives in Sackville and works at the Struts Gallery and Faucet Media Arts Centre.