Penny McCann

Penny McCann

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Canadian media artist Penny McCann's body of work spans more than twenty-five years and encompasses both dramatic and experimental films and videos. Her work has been exhibited extensively at festivals and galleries nationally and internationally.

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Expo Film (this film is my memory) 2021

Using anonymous home movie footage of Expo '67 in Montreal, the artist sets out to recreate a memory that perhaps never existed. Celluloid manipulation and sound decay techniques coalesce to transform a mythic landscape into a sublime expanse of disintegrated memory
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Lot 22, Concession 5 2009

Hand-processed 16mm film imagery, tinted, toned, and transformed, is combined with memory fragments of a rural past, to create a poetic narrative about place and time. Filmed at the Independent Imaging Retreat (aka the Film Farm) in Mount Forest, Ontario, in 2008. Experimental sound design by Edmund Eagan and featuring my father's voice, who passed away in 1992.
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Gibraltar Point (transformed) 2016

The landscape of Lake Ontario is transformed into an ominous expanse using hand processing techniques.