film, electronics, photography, radio, and performance
<p><strong>Amanda Dawn Christie</strong> is an interdisciplinary artist working in film, electronics, photography, performance, and electroacoustic sound.</p> <p><strong>The Things That Keep Her Busy</strong><br> For the past thirteen years Amanda has been actively serving on various boards of artist run centres, teaching workshops, publishing articles, and serving on juries across Canada. She completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts in Vancouver, before moving to Amsterdam. After living in the Netherlands for a year, she moved back to Canada where she worked as a production supervisor at the Faucet Media Arts Centre & Struts Gallery, while continuing to make films and perform with projectors. She currently works as the director of the Galerie Sans Nom in Moncton, and continues to make films, and wearable electronic instruments.<br></p> <p><strong>Film Screenings</strong><br> Her experimental films have screened internationally from the Czech Republic, to Korea, from Mexico, to Rotterdam, from Chicago to Leeds, from Victoria, to Halifax, and Beyond!</p> <p><strong>Film Festivals</strong><br> Her films have screened at various festivals around the world including the Leeds International Film Festival (UK), Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic), the ExIs Experimental Film Festival (Seoul, South Korea), the Madcat International Women’s Film Festival (San Fransisco), the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands), Cine El Pocho (Oaxaca, Mexico), Antimatter Underground Film Festival (Victoria), Images Festival (Toronto), among several other festivals, and cinematheques.</p> <p><strong>Distributors</strong><br> Her films are distributed by Lightcone out of Paris, France<br> Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre out of Toronto, Canada, and the Dutch Filmbank out of Amsterdam, Netherlands</p> <p><strong>Artist Residencies</strong><br> She was an artist in residence at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2008, and then also at the $100 Film Festival in Calgary in 2010 the filmmaker in residence at the Atlantic Filmmakers Co-operative.<br></p> <p><strong>10 Years of Moving Pictures</strong><br> In 2009/2010 she presented a 10 year retrospective of her films at the Canadian Film Institute as a part of their Cafe Ex series, and also at the Halifax Indpendent Filmmakers Festival, and most recently at the Winnipeg Cinematheque.<br></p> <p><strong>Live Cinema: Improvising with Projectors</strong><br> She also performs live improvisations with film projectors both in solo projects and as a part of the IRiSs Lab collective (http://www.irisslab.ca)</p>