Bio
Recent Projects
According to the Order of Time
Ashes to ashes
Spring Passage
Signal, Noise
Xʷəyeyət (Iona Beach) Rubbings
X̱á7elcha (Lynn Creek) Watergrams
XINEMA
CV
Vimeo
Contact
selected group exhibitions
2024 - Signal, Noise series, Essential Pleasures New Happiness, group show, Street-level windows of Howe Street Studios, organized by Felix Rapp, Vancouver, BC (by invitation)
2024 - Xʷəyeyət (Iona Beach) Rubbings, Give Everyone the Power to Share Anything With Anyone, People, Vancouver, BC
2023 - Xʷəyeyət (Iona Beach) Rubbings and X̱á7elcha (Lynn Creek) Watergrams series, Re-Anima !, group show, PRISME festival #6 – Argentique du futur, Hosted by Mire, K-Haus Gallery in the Blockhaus DY10, Nantes, France (by invitation)
2023 - X̱á7elcha (Lynn Creek) Watergrams series, Coursing, group show, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC (by invitation)
2022 - xʷəyeyət (Iona Beach) Rubbings series, The Lind Prize 2022, group show, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2022 - X̱á7elcha (Lynn Creek) Watergrams series; Stranger than Fiction, curated by Emmy Lee Wall, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, BC
selected screenings
2026 - Ashes to ashes, Marking Time, CAULDRON International Film and Video Festival, Salt Lake City, UT
2026 - Ashes to ashes, Claimed Terrain, CAULDRON International Film and Video Festival, Salt Lake City, UT
2026 - Ashes to ashes, Program 4: Creation Plays Itself, Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, Oklahoma City, OK
2026 - Ashes to ashes, Projected Program, Artifact Film Festival, Calgary, AB
2026 - Ashes to ashes, all night long in the orchard, my eyes like two dogs, Film Diary 4, Brooklyn, NYC
2025 - Ashes to ashes, program 5: shadows between the frame, CROSSROADS 2025, San Francisco, CA
2024 - Ashes to ashes (in-progress), Night Visions (w/ Lori Goldston), XINEMA x Iris Filmmakers Collective, KW Studios, Vancouver, BC
2023 - i see me watching, The Framing of Perception, XINEMA, VIFF’s Vancity Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2022 - i see me watching, The Image Before Us: From Milltown to Metropolis, The Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC (by invitation)
2022 - i see me watching, Short Forum 2, Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancity Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2021 - The Big Bang, BLITZ #37 curated program, Zumzieg Cinema, Barcelona, ES (by invitation)
community involvement
2022 - present - XINEMA, Co-founding Member
2023 - present - Iris Film Collective, Member
2025 - present - DIM Collective, Member
2024 - 2026 - People, Co-founding Member
2023 - 2025 - Liquidation World, Member
workshop facilitation / teaching
2026 - Conscious Eco-prosessing, XINEMA’s Fieldhouse, Emily Carr University Analogue Practices Class, Vancouver, BC
2025 - Ferric/Ferrous Development and Place-Based Chemi-lumens, Sustainable Photography? Conference, Plymouth, UK
2025 - Cheat the System! Create Your Own Community/Relational Super8 Filmmaking, XINEMA’s Fieldhouse, Emily Carr University Experimental Processes class, Vancouver, BC
2024 - Fairy Clocks with Kasper Feyrer and Kara Ditte Hansen, XINEMA, UNIT/PITT, Vancouver, BC
2024 - Conscious Eco-processing, Emily Carr University, Experimental Imaging Class, Vancouver, BC
2024 - DIY Contact Printing/Rayograms, Liquidation World, Vancouver, BC
2023 - Handmade Filmmaking, Girls Rock Camp, Vancouver, BC
2023 - Ferric Developer 101, PRISME #6, Mire Film Lab, Nantes, FR
2023 - Place-based Lumen Printing, CAG Vancouver, presented in conjunction with Lotus L. Kang’s “In Cascades” Exhibition, Vancouver, BC
2023 - Lumen Printing & Collage, Liquidation World, City of Vancouver, Art in the Park, Vancouver, BC
2023 - Communal Expressions, Handmade Cinema Booth, Curiko’s Artist in Residence program, Vancouver, BC
2023 - XINEMA x EPFC North’s COSMIC QUEERITIES: A Handmade Cinema Crashcourse and Queer Conversation Hub, Funded by Community Arts Fund, Vancouver, BC
2023 - Conscious Eco-processing, Or Gallery, In correlation with the Coursing exhibition, Vancouver, BC
2023 - 16mm Watergram Filmmaking, Analogue Resilience Gathering, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2022 - Shoebox Filmmaking for the Shoestring Filmmaker with Lindsay McIntyre, Experiments in Cinema, The Gathering, NIMAC, Online
curation
2026 – Holos Gramma, holography exhibition, shadow puppetry workshop, and laser/shadow puppet performance by Eric Leiser for XINEMA, XINEMA’s Fieldhouse, Vancouver BC (upcoming)
2026 – Controlled Demolition, experimental film program and workshop for XINEMA, programmed with guest programmer Dominick Rivers, XINEMA’s Fieldhouse, Vancouver BC (upcoming)
2026 – Fur Film Vol. 2: mirror mirror, media exhibition by ЯeaRflex for XINEMA, XINEMA’s Darkroom, Vancouver BC
2026 – collect, release, fall, rise: The Films of Erica Sheu, experimental film program for DIM Cinema, Iris Filmmakers Collective, The Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC
2025 - I’m planting a garden in my screen, media installation by Eric Tkaczyk for XINEMA, XINEMA’s Fieldhouse Garden, Vancouver, BC
2025 - Unholy Inheritance, experimental film program for XINEMA, guest programmed at the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF), Dave Barber Cinematheque, Winnipeg, MB
2025 - Sunset Seduction: Gatherings Against Institutional Capture, a discussion, workshop, and screening for XINEMA with Charles de Agustin, XINEMA’s Fieldhouse, Vancouver, BC
2025 - Night Visions, experimental film program for XINEMA, in collaboration with Iris Film Collective, KW Studios, Vancouver, BC
2024 - Light grows wild, experimental film program for XINEMA + UNIT/PITT, in conjunction with the to carve without cutting exhibition, Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, Vancouver, BC
2024 - Budding, experimental film program for XINEMA+ UNIT/PITT Society for Arts and Critical Awareness, Vancouver, BC
2024 - Elements of Dying, experimental film program for XINEMA, Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NYC
2024 - N Dimensional Space, experimental film program for XINEMA + UNIT/PITT Society for Arts and Critical Awareness, in conjunction with the Gravity wins, Entropy rules Exhibition, Vancouver, BC
2024 - notes on the colour blue, experimental film program for XINEMA, Vancity Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2024 - Farther Than the Eye Can See, experimental film program for XINEMA, VIFF Centre’s Studio Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2023 - XINEMA’s One Year Cine-Celebration, An open screening of works by XINEMA alumni and close supporters, Vancity Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2023 - Attack of the DIY!, experimental film program for XINEMA, VIFF Centre’s Studio Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2023 - Duties in the Domestic Cinema, experimental film program for XINEMA, Vancity Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2023 - Phosphenia!, experimental film program for XINEMA, VIFF Centre’s Studio Theatre
2023 - COSMIC QUEERITES Cinema Under the Stars, A Workshop Participant and Open Community Screening held at EPFC North, Vancouver, BC
2023 - COSMIC QUEERITES, experimental film program for XINEMA, VIFF Centre’s Studio Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2023 - Roleplay, Fantasy, Pleasure, experimental film program for XINEMA, Vancity Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2023 - Earth as Womb, experimental film program for XINEMA, Vancity Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2023 - The Framing of Perception, experimental film program for XINEMA, Vancity Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2023 - The Pulse of the Screen, experimental film program for XINEMA, curated in partnership with The Polygon Gallery, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2022 - Absurd + Subversive, experimental film program for XINEMA, VIFF Centre’s Studio Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2022 - The Void of the Voice, experimental film program for XINEMA, VIFF Centre’s Studio Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2022 - Times Long Past, experimental film program for XINEMA, VIFF Centre’s Studio Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2022 - Left with Grain, experimental film program for VUCAVU, Online
publications / writing
2024 - Looking Through a Two-Way Lens: A Reflection on “Vancouver’s” lively underground cine-culture, 1960-present, Gravity wins, Entropy Rules, UNIT/PITT exhibition publication for Al Razutis’ solo exhibition: Gravity wins, Entropy Rules
2024 - Shameless Light letter, Western Front, Written for and performed as a part of Dani and Sheilah ReStack’s Feral Domestic exhibition
2022 - Handmade Cinema Guide, self-published zine
2020 - Beginners' Guide to Analogue Filmmaking, self-published zine
artist talks
2026 - Emily Carr University Analogue Practices Class
2025 - Emily Carr University Experimental Processes Class
2024 - Emily Carr University Experimental Imaging Class
2022 - ‘Stranger Than Fiction’, Capture Photography Festival
selected press / interviews
2024 - N Dimensional Space, XINEMA, by Trinity Sala, Discorder Magazine
2023 - Re-Anima! (as part of PRISME - Film of the Future), All Ready Made
2022 - i see me watching, Outlook TV, Interview for Vancouver International Film Festival
2022 - My Pain is Our Song, XINEMA, by Ahni Tran, Discorder Magazine
2022 - Student Shows Reveal Visions of New Worlds Defined by Sensitivity to Place, ECUAD News, by Perrin Grauer
2022 - Truth, Intimacy and the Power of Photography through the Lenses of Khim Hipol, Abigail Pfortmueller, David Aquino and Sidney Gordon, by Charisma Christal Thomas, Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship
2021 - Sidney Gordon Highlights the Importance of Communication and Collaboration with Artist Lindsay McIntyre, by Nicole Yamamoto, Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship
awards
2022 - Phillip B. Lind Prize Emerging Artist Award, Finalist
2022 - Chancellor's Award, Emily Carr Graduation, Jury Selection, Winner
2022 - VIVO Distribution Award, Emily Carr Graduation, Winner
2022 - Best Experimental, Emily Carr Graduation, Winner
2021 - Phillip B. Lind Prize Emerging Artist Award, Longlist Nominee
collections / distribution
2022 - i see me watching, VIVO Media Arts Centre
2022 - i see me watching, CFMDC
education
2022 - Bachelor of Media Arts, Film + Screen Arts, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver BC