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My career as a media artist spans twenty years and encompasses both dramatic and experimental films and videos. My narrative works: The Sisters (1993); The Fires of Joanna (1998); Helpless (2001), and The Professor and the Blind Girl (2009), involve stories from the past told in highly codified ways, while my experimental works form an ongoing investigation into hybrid forms of expression, mixing film and video imagery to create shifts in subjectivity, memory, and perspective, culminating in my most recent work In Between (remembering and forgetting), which was completed in 2010.
My films and videos have been exhibited at festivals and galleries nationally and internationally, including the Centre national d’art contemporain (Grenoble, France), the Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Oberhausen, Germany), the Images Festival (Toronto, Canada), the Festival International du film sur l’art (Montreal, Québec), the Canadian Film Institute (Ottawa, Ontario), Women Make Waves Festival (Taipei, Taiwan), the Bar Television Festival (Bar, Montenegro), the Owens Art Gallery (Sackville, New Brunswick), and the Ottawa Art Gallery. My work has received critical notice in such publications as The Globe and Mail, TAKE ONE: Film and Television in Canada, and Canadian Forum magazine, and has won several awards, including a Special Jury Award for The Sisters from the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival in 1994.
As a long-time activist/worker in the Canadian media and visual arts community, I served as president of the Independent Film and Video Alliance from 1996-1999. Since 2004, I have been employed as the Director of SAW Video, a media arts centre located in Ottawa, Ontario. As a result of my work on behalf of the local independent film and video community, In 2007, I was awarded the Victor Tolgesy Award for achievement in the arts.
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Penny McCann added In Between (remembering and forgetting) to the SAW Video group
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Penny McCann added Away for Christmas to the SAW Video group
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