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"We imagine the lives under the mortar, but how do we recognize the end of a bottomless silence?" - Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Ryan Ermacora (1991, British Columbia) and Jessica Johnson (1988, Nova Scotia) are award winning filmmakers based in Vancouver, B.C. Their work investigates the traces of history in landscape. While they make documentaries and documents, they’re critical of the genre`s claim to truth and objectivity, therefore they approach their practise using structuralist, self-reflexive and affective strategies to undermine the possibility of those claims in their own work. As a result, their films are often materially playful and inventive. They have screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, WNDX: Festival of Moving Image, and as a two channel film installation at the Alternator Center for Contemporary Art.