An Evening with Lindsay McIntyre
Balagan Films and AgX are pleased to welcome Vancouver-based filmmaker, Lindsay McIntyre for a program of nine short films. Over the past two decades, McIntyre has produced over 45 films, mostly on 16mm, with a practice firmly rooted in community and Indigenous identity, all infused with a resolute DIY ethos and devotion to experimentation. As a prominent figure in the artist-run film lab movement (being a current member of AgX’s sister organizations the Iris Film Collective in Vancouver and a former member of the Double Negative Collective in Montreal), Lindsay has established herself as one of the foremost practitioners of handmade emulsion in a cinematic context, with her most recent film featuring emulsion crafted from gelatin made from Barren-ground Caribou and photographic developers made from lichens. Lindsay has also recently been appointed as the first Inuk Executive Director of the Inuit Art Foundation, and is currently an artist-in-residence at MacDowell.
BIO:
Lindsay McIntyre is an Inuk artist and filmmaker exploring place-based knowledge, material practices, and personal histories. Her multiple award-winning short documentaries, experimental films and expanded cinema performances are often process-based and for some she also makes her own 16mm film with handmade silver gelatin emulsion. Her short drama NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind) won Best Live Action Short at imagineNATIVE and qualified for the 2025 Oscars. Her most recent work Tuktuit : Caribou explores the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, and lichens and land use. A fellow of the Sundance Indigenous Institute, Forge Project, and COUSIN Collective, she was also the winner of the Women in the Director's Chair Feature Film Award. With that support, and after over 45 shorts, she is developing her debut narrative feature, The Words We Can’t Speak.
https://tinymovingpictures.com/
Program runtime: 87 minutes, followed by a Q&A with Lindsay McIntyre
Doors open at 6:30pm, program starts at 7:00pm.
Free with a suggested sliding-scale $5 - $20 donation.
PROGRAM:
Tuktuit : Caribou, 2025, Super 16, sound, 15 min
An experimental documentary created with handmade and manufactured emulsions exploring the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichens, and land use. Lichen developers help bring the images to life, while caribou hide is processed into gelatin to make handmade emulsion. Filmed primarily on the land in Nunavut where caribou struggle to maintain their lifeways amidst burn events, habitat disruption and changing conditions.
bernard gaspé, 2013, 16mm, sound, 5 min
Rendered in a dream-like pink hue, bernard gaspé uses layered in-camera juxtapositions to present a journey through the neglected architecture of the train tracks in Montréal’s Mile End. (Images)
all-around junior male, 2013, 16mm, sound, 8 min
A hand-crafted experimental portrait of a young Nunamiut athlete, Sean Uquqtuq through his performance of a challenging traditional Inuit game – the one-foot high kick.
TICKET / TIMBER / TREE, 2024, 16mm, silent, 3 min
From paper and products back to pristine forest. A reverse process of a material being too often considered a natural resource.
Where We Stand, 2016, 16mm, sound, 5 min
A discussion on the death of film. Where We Stand is a haunting portrait of theaters shot on handmade 16mm iodo-bromide emulsion. With a strong commitment to retaining the language of film, Where We Stand takes a good hard look at the fragile future of films made on film in this digital age.
leavings, 2020, Super 16, silent, 1 min
Leavings.
what she would not leave behind, 2006, 16mm / Super 8, sound, 3 minutes
Among the very few essential objects brought South from her home, Kumaa’naaq’s uluit manifest a dream in her great-granddaughter. (One of five works in the Bloodline series.)
her silent life, 2013, 16mm / Super 8 / digital video, sound, 31 min
Three generations of women are revealed in this intuitive journey into one family's past. Crafting together analogue film techniques with personal interview, director Lindsay McIntyre creates an impressionistic exploration of her mixed Inuit heritage and the controversies surrounding her ancestry. (imagineNATIVE)
NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind), 2023, digital video, sound, 16 min
In 1938, having left her Nunavut home with her mother Kumaa’naaq, young Marguerite must negotiate the unspoken pressures of a new life in the South. When an extraordinary letter arrives from home, Marguerite discovers what’s really expected of her. Based on a true story.