Bio
Glenn Gear is an Indigiqueer filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist of Inuit and settler descent currently living in Montréal. He is originally from Corner Brook Newfoundland and has family ties to Nunatsiavut. His practice is grounded in a research creation methodology shaped by Inuit and Indigenous ways of knowing, often employing the use of experimental animation, photo archives, painting, bead work, and sealskin craft. He has contributed to numerous projects with the National Film Board of Canada in his role as animator and mentor. An important area within his practice is the sharing of animation skills through workshops that engage youth and first-time filmmakers in both urban environments as well as remote northern communities. His animations have screened in festivals throughout Canada and around the world, including ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Canada; Skabmagovat, Indigenous Peoples' Film Festival, Finland; Maoriland Film Festival, New Zealand. He was the artist-in-residence for Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership 2020-2021, jointly held between Concordia University and the University of Winnipeg, and is currently an artist-in-residence in Film & Media at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. He holds a BFA in Photography from Memorial University of Newfoundland and an MFA in Sculpture from Concordia University.