Moving Frames, Shifting Boundaries: Artistic Experiments and Innovation in Film and Video

Gerda Cammaer
Guest Curator

Originally from Leuven (Belgium), Gerda Cammaer combines a background in Communication Studies with Filmmaking and Film Studies. For her PhD, she made a research-creation project about the so-called “death of film” and the importance of experimental film practices in times of accelerated technological changes. Both as a maker and as scholar she specializes in experimental and documentary films. Although over the past few years she dedicated much of her energy and focus to Film and Cultural Studies scholarship, she is first and foremost a filmmaker. Most of her film and video work builds upon her passion for collage film, experimental film practices and creative documentary. Her photography also shows an interest in both abstract images (painting with light) and documentary (people and cultures). Gerda Cammaer also works as a free-lance programmer of Canadian experimental film and video. She is Associate Professor at the School of Image Arts of Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in Toronto.

Pierre Tremblay
Guest Curator

Interdisciplinary artist Pierre Tremblay is an Associate Professor in the School of Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). He teaches in the Film and the MFA Documentary Media programs. His artistic practice, combining new technologies and video, questions the world in flux, how we see and perceive. Recent projects include 300 Days of Indulgence – Negotiating with the Beyond, Continuum and Portraits in a Sentence. Exhibitions of recent note include Meta Incognita, at The Photographers’s Gallery – The Wall, London, England, Dans la nuit des images, at the Grand Palais, Paris, and le Mois de la Photo 2009, Montreal, along with festival screenings in Canada, Italy, Australia, China and Brazil. His work can be found in France at the Musee Carnavalet, Bibliotheque Nationale and the Musee Rodin. In his role at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Tremblay has facilitated conferences and edited books that have brought scholars and artists from Ontario, Quebec and France together for cross-cultural exchange on a variety of new media topics.