Form and function are deconstructed through the artist’s interventions with the camera.
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Paige Smith
Canada
2023
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Credits
Producer
Paige Smith
Cinematography
Paige Smith
Original Music
Paige Smith
Editor
Paige Smith
Director
Paige Smith
Paige Smith is an experimental filmmaker and visual artist whose artwork collapses distinctions like fiction/reality or nature/culture to spark new understandings of ourselves and the places where we exist. She primarily works with lens-based media, often emphasizing materiality through overlapping layers and material interventions. She studied Film and Contemporary Art at Simon Fraser University and is currently pursuing her Master of Fine Art at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
VIFF Short Forum
See more shorts in this series
1: Call your mother
Shorts from: Canada, China, UK.
2: Memory & mediation
Shorts from: Canada, France, Lebanon, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Syria, USA.
3: The peripheral core
Shorts from: Brazil, Canada, Japan, Norway, USA.
4: Um, womanhood
Shorts from: Canada, Columbia, France, Netherlands, Sweden.
5: The absurd & spiritual
Shorts from: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland, Portugal.
6: City slickin’
Shorts from: Canada, France, Jordan, Spain, USA.
7: All day I dream about
Shorts from: Canada, India, Spain, Taiwan, USA.
8: Love and despair
Shorts from: China, France, Germany, Portugal, USA.
9: The scary one
Shorts from: Canada, Korea, Romania, USA.
10: The new socialism; ceasefire now!
Shorts from: Belgium, Canada, China, India, Myanmar, UK.
Short Fuse
An eye-opening collection of shorts exploring memories, experiences and relationships between friends, family, and across generations. From powwows in North America, to the rivers of Ethiopia and beyond, these shorts offer memorable stories on screen.