I am the same, I am always changing | Celina de Leon
Celina de Leon's multiscreen installation animates the artist’s figure in cycles of dressing and undressing, hinting at the possibility of intimacy, yet always denying the viewer a fixed position or steady gaze.
Open to Public?
Yes
Curated as part of the Animate Materials Workshop. Opening reception on November 8 at 6:00pm.
About Celina de Leon
Celina de Leon is a Filipina-American experimental filmmaker currently residing on unceded Coast Salish Territories known as Vancouver, BC. She often centres themes of autonomy while exploring the hybridity of digital and analogue media. Her thesis film My Fantasies Keep me up at Nite won the VIVO Media Arts Award and was nominated for the ECU President’s Media Award and Chancellor’s Award. She is the co-founder of a recurring experimental film program called XINEMA (with VIFF) and currently works as a research assistant for the Animate Materials Workshop and for Ruth Beer.
About the Curator
Alla Gadassik is Associate Professor of Media History and Theory at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she founded the Animate Materials Workshop. Dr. Gadassik’s research explores the histories of different filmmaking methods and philosophies. Her main areas of focus are animation studies and contemporary moving-image arts interested in material aesthetics. She lives, works, and commits to decolonial futures on the unceded lands of Coast Salish people, also known as Vancouver, BC. Dr. Gadassik’s recent publications include articles in Feminist Media Histories and Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Her chapter on the gendered labour of early film editing in the Companion to Documentary Film History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021) was recently awarded by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.