Bio

Amanda Dawn Christie is an interdisciplinary artist working in experimental film, video installation, photography, and electroacoustics. For over a decade, she has been serving on boards of artist run centres, teaching workshops, publishing articles, and serving on juries across Canada. She completed her MFA at Simon Fraser University.

Works

Mechanical Memory

  • 2005
  • Amanda Dawn Christie

Created from super 8 footage that was shot in the 1970s of the family dogs and the trains that my father worked on, this film explores the decay of memory and image. The super 8 film grew fungus while stored in a basement. It was then optically printed up to 16mm and slowed down so that the snowflake shaped fungus could be studied. Narration presents fragmented stories of childhood memories.

Mechanical Memory