Nettie Wild is one of Canada’s leading documentary filmmakers and a highly influential public installation artist. Her highly charged and critically acclaimed films have brought her audiences behind the frontlines and headlines of revolutions and social change around the world. Her most recent public media art installation, UNINTERRUPTED, galvanized public involvement and awareness on the impending plight of BC’s salmon population.

Nettie will be presenting on her career’s work at this event, sharing the stories, media and imagery from the frontiers and backcountries of the world and from BC itself.

“Transcendent, breathtaking spectacle… she let the camera hunt for art in every frame, mining veins of abstract beauty rather than sharp nuggets of political narrative. She allows every image an ecumenical gaze.” - KONELĪNE review in Macleans Magazine.

Nettie is best known for her award winning documentary features: KONELĪNE: our land beautiful (2016); FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2002), A Place Called Chiapas (1998), Blockade (1993) and A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution (1988). Nettie Wild’s films have been distributed theatrically, and broadcast in Canada and internationally. She has been honoured at film festivals around world and has won the Genie Award twice for Best Feature Documentary in Canada. Among other honors she has won Best Feature Documentary from the International Documentary Association as well as top honours from the Forum of New Cinema at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Her latest projects explore new forms of storytelling: UNINTERRUPTED is a public art installation first exhibited in the summer of 2017, a 25-min digitally-mapped projection using unique underwater footage of the Adams’ River sockeye salmon migration. Inside Stories (2011) is a multi- platform web experience launched in the fall of 2011. Bevel Up (2007) is a groundbreaking documentary and interactive DVD. In Profile: Deepa Mehta (2012) uses split screen to tell its story.

In 2016 Nettie was honoured by Women in Film with the Artistic Merit Award at VIFF. Wild At Heart, a book focusing on her work and career, was published in 2009 and there have been multiple retrospectives of her work as well as a profile in POV Magazine. In 2010 she received the BC Film Critics Circle Award for her contribution to the film industry and the Vancouver Sun named her as one of British Columbia’s “most influential women”. In addition to directing, Nettie is also much in demand as a story editor, teacher and lecturer and was Filmmaker in Residence at the National Film Board in 2007.

Nettie's film KONELĪNE: our land beautiful will be screening on March 13 in the Reliance Theatre. See the event details here.

This event is part of The Time, Light + Sound Series 2019 spring schedule of guest artists. Curator Lorelei Pepi has crafted a special focus on the theme of “Collaborative Spirit” which suffuses much of this semester’s line-up. Artists are capable of astounding acts of creativity, and their ideas and energies are often amplified and transformed when working in crews, ensembles and collectives.

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