We are very exited to have Hân Pham as our next breathing room artist in residence!

breathing room reimagines the artist residency as a fluid space for collaboration, experimentation, relaxation and community connection. Facilitated by Iris Film Collective and EPFC North, breathing room artists are provided with some filmmaking materials and equipment, technical and creative support, and access to work/exhibition space at Moberly and/or Burrard View Fieldhouse. The residency also includes optional opportunities for artists to engage with the local community via workshops, talks, screenings and other public activities. breathing room artists are invited to share their creative discoveries at a free public in-person and/or online event at the end of their residency.

Hân Phạm (b.1999) is an emerging Vietnamese documentary/ experimental filmmaker and artist from Saigon, Vietnam. Working with experimental haptic video and film, photography, and soundscape compositions, her works often thinks through the ephemerality of memory, language, and history in relation to the constantly changing and dislocated landscapes, rooting in the inbetweeness of distance as space for reflection. Hân has exhibited at Vancouver International Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, and Vines Arts Festival, presented her work in a public installation with Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen in 2020-2021, and participated in the VIFF Catalyst Mentorship Program.

Culminating Event (In Person Outdoors at Mim’s Farm): breathing room residency culminating event with artist in residence Wendel Vistan Saturday, October 2
6 – 8:30 PM
Come on down to the farm as Wendel Vistan presents a new eco-processed super 8 film created during her time as the very first breathing room artist in residence. breathing room is a new artist residency program from EPFC North and IRIS Film Collective that reimagines the artist residency as a fluid space for collaboration, experimentation, relaxation, and community connection. Wendel explored analog film technologies in telling a story of Mim’s Farm, a special place that “holds a space for conversations about the local histories of the area surrounding the Big Bend [of South Burnaby] and the Chinese migrants who farm on the land.” Mim’s Farm is located at 6137 10th Ave, Burnaby. The location is accessible by transit: get off the 22nd stop on the Expo Line and can ride the 100 bus from there or walk/bike 10-15 mins.

Workshop (In Person at Moberly Fieldhouse): LOVE YA AND LEAF YA
Sunday, October 3
1 pm – 4 pm
As summer slides into autumn, we look to the leaves on the trees around us at Moberly Fieldhouse us for inspiration as they gracefully change with the seasons… Come on by for a relaxed afternoon of phytograms, printmaking, direct animation and warm conversation. Free event! All Welcome!

breathing room reimagines the artist residency as a fluid space for collaboration, experimentation, relaxation and community connection

We are delighted to announce our September 2021 breathing room artist in residence: Wendel Vistan 

Wendel Vistan is a Filipino-Canadian immigrant, student, and artist who resides on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories. She explores notions of narrative, landscape, home and displacement through film photography, painting, poetry and video. She has participated in youth art programs at Contemporary Art Gallery and Unit/Pitt. She is currently studying Sustainable Agriculture at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Facilitated by Iris Film Collective and EPFC North, breathing room artists are provided with some filmmaking materials and equipment, technical and creative support, and access to work/exhibition space at Moberly and/or Burrard View Fieldhouse. The residency also includes optional opportunities for artists to engage with the local community via workshops, talks, screenings and other public activities. breathing room artists are invited to share their creative discoveries at a free public in-person and/or online event on the last Thursday of their residency.

* ARTIST RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITY: breathing room with EPFC North and Iris Film Collective! Applications due July 16!

breathing room reimagines the artist residency as a fluid space for collaboration, experimentation, relaxation and community connection. The 2021 Residencies are scheduled for September and November.

We especially encourage applications from Indigenous, LGBTQIA2S+, Female-Identified and emerging artists of any discipline interested in engaging with EPFC/IRIS areas of specialty: small gauge film, social justice issues and community activism, alternative and handmade photochemical processes, local histories, multidisciplinary work, and expanded cinema. Cross disciplinary/multi-media collaborations between two or more artists are also welcome.

More info and online application here: https://forms.gle/1H2Axkrm7JZpLAWz9
Applications Due: July 16, 2021 5pm
Artists Notified : August 2, 2021