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Canadian media artist Penny McCann's body of work spans more than twenty-five years and encompasses both dramatic and experimental films and videos. Her work has been exhibited extensively at festivals and galleries nationally and internationally.
Total trailers found: 13
23 October 2021
Using anonymous home movie footage of Expo '67 in Montreal, the artist sets out to recreate a memory that perhaps never existed.
15 August 2023
An incomplete family story leads the filmmaker on a quest to find her mother in the British archives.
01 January 2006
A meditative look at a mutable and hypnotic horizon. Grainy Super 8 imagery, optically printed 16mm footage and an atmospheric soundtrack evoke the stillness of mind reached when standing before expansive sky and water.
01 January 1993
The Sisters is the haunting tale of the ties that bind women and sisters together. Etched on a gravestone are the stark facts: three sisters who drowned on the same summer day in 1917.
01 October 2016
The landscape of Lake Ontario is transformed into an ominous expanse using hand processing techniques.
01 January 2009
Hand-processed 16mm film imagery, tinted, toned, and transformed, is combined with memory fragments of a rural past, to create a poetic narrative about place and time.
24 October 2023
A hand-processed black and white study of the Ottawa River in winter. Commissioned by the Lightproof Film Collective with sound design by Eric Walker.
01 January 1998
Set in Depression-era Eastern Ontario, "The Fires of Joanna" tells the story of a woman struggling to endure a harsh and unforgiving life.
01 April 2022
Drawn from Super 8 films in the artists' personal archives as well as found amateur 8mm footage, "Events in the Tunnel" presents an absurdist abbreviated retelling of Canada's colonial history as defined by that great colonial trope, the cross-country train trip.
12 December 2020
An experimental triptych filmed in 16mm and Super 8 over a four year period, Phenomena continues the artist's evolving preoccupation with landscape and celluloid practices.
01 January 2012
An ordinary rural landscape is transformed into an enigmatic dreamscape. A farmhouse stands in a copper field of scratched emulsion as solarized flares illuminate the sky.
13 February 2004
Something Dancing About Her is an affectionate portrait of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, a charismatic yet relatively unknown painter.
01 January 2002
Don't miss this compelling one-hour documentary about the vital role women played in putting an end to World War II by working for Canadian spymaster William Stephenson -- a.
