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Kate Solar

POND

Film expérimental | 16mm | noir et blanc | 3:6 | Canada | 2022

Digital footage of the river near the filmmaker's childhood home is laser-printed directly onto 16mm film, creating a shifting, liquified halftone. Memory dissolves into the texture of time. The print bleeds onto the optical sound strip, the image obscuring the soundtrack. The landscape is impossible to return to.

Kate Solar is a filmmaker from Ottawa, Ontario, currently studying at NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is interested in experimental documentary and the physicality of celluloid film. Conceptually, her work explores the intersections of landscape with memory, identity, and gender.