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“What I like in film is precision, slightness, economy of means, delight, inference, and a kind of motion that can be followed but not tagged, and makes seeing intelligent.”

Ellie Epp

A near-mythic voice in North American art cinema, Ellie Epp has created a moving, rigorous, and immersive body of work. The Iris Film Collective is thrilled to present this retrospective featuring Epp’s four 16mm films (1975–1996) in new digital restorations and five more recent digital video works never before shown in Vancouver. Epp’s meticulously minimalist films invite a lyrical looking and seeing, listening and hearing. Each work is an instrument of perceptual and philosophical inquiry, an encounter with fleeting and feeling moments.

Introduced by programmer Alex MacKenzie, Iris Film Collective.

trapline • Canada/​UK 1975 • 18 min. • Digital current • Canada 1986 • 2 min. • Digital (silent) notes in origin • Canada 1987 • 15 min. • Digital (silent) bright & dark • Canada/​USA 1996 • 3 min. • Digital by the lotus • Canada/​USA 2013 • 3 min. • Digital here • Canada/​USA 2013 • 3 min. • Digital ocean beach pier three movements • Canada/​USA 2013 • 8 min. • Digital pale hill • Canada/​USA 2013 • 6 min. • Digital last light • Canada/​USA 2013 • 7 min. • Digital

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Note

All 16mm films presented in restored digital format at the request of the artist.

Upcoming in this Series

  • Everybody In The Place 1
  • Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984–1992
  • United Kingdom2018
  • Jeremy Deller
  • 62 DCP
  • NR
  • DIM Cinema
  • Keys To Kingdoms 1
  • Keys to Kingdoms: The Legacy of Bud Osborn
  • 44
  • NR
  • DIM Cinema
  • Trapline 2
  • Notes in Origin: The Films of Ellie Epp
  • 65
  • NR
  • DIM Cinema