Christina Battle
Christina BATTLE (Canada) lives and works in Toronto, where she is an active member of the city’s experimental film community. She holds a BSc specialising in Environmental Biology from the University of Alberta, a certificate in Film Studies from Ryerson University, an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a PhD in Art & Visual Culture from the University of Western Ontario. Battle’s work is focussed around the topic of disaster: its complexity and the intricacies entwined within it. Her works have been exhibited internationally at festivals and galleries such as Window Winnipeg, Gallery 44 (Toronto), The Blackwood Gallery (Mississagua), The Grantham Foundation (Quebec), The Art Gallery of Burlington (Ontario) and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Ontario).
Filmography
(all short, selection) Tracking Sasquatch (2016), Cooper/Bridges Flight (2002), Oil Wells (2002), Gaffiti Test (2003), Paradise Falls, New Mexico (2004), Fall Storm (2004), Buffalo Lifts (2004), Following the Line of the Web (2004), Map (2005), The Distance Between Here and There (2005), Migration (2005), If I Could Read Your Mind (2005, instal), Travelling thru With Eyes Closed Tight (2006), Three Hours, Fifteen Minutes Before the Hurricane Struck (2006), Hysteria (2006), When the Wind Shifted (2006), Behind the Walls and Under the Stairs (2006), Wandering Through Secret Storms (2009), When the Smog-Filled Wind Began to Howl (2012),
Christina Battle at IFFR
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wandering through secret storms
Images of women doing office work are mixed with redacted FBI notations. Does freedom exist?
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Nostalgia (April 2001 to Present)
‘The picture of the world that’s presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality.’ (Noam Chomsky)
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Behind the Walls and Under the Stairs
The spiders are organising themselves… One day soon they’ll take over.
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When the Smog-Filled Wind Began to Howl
We know now that in the early years of the twenty-first century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man.
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Tracking Sasquatch (field report #4)
A search for the elusive Sasquatch with text generated, sourced and scoured from various articles and essays found on the internet. (Canadian Fil