Video Portraits

 
 

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Since 2013, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Independent Media Arts Alliance have put out a call to professional filmmakers in Canada to create video portraits of the award winners.

The response from the media arts community is always enthusiastic as it represents a unique opportunity to produce an artistic short film about a key figure in the visual, media arts, or fine craft. The commissioned filmmakers create the videos in a fully creative and collaborative way with the artists. The videos then take on a life of their own, becoming artworks themselves.

Video production

The request for proposals from filmmakers across Canada to create videos on the 2024 GGArts winners will be issued in the fall of 2023.

2023 filmmakers

Aaron Adetuyi and Jody Racicot
Video of Grace Nickel

Kyle Armstrong (Dropper Productions)
Video of Germaine Koh

Raghed Charabaty 
Video of Tim Whiten

Pixie Cram
Video of Evergon

Rami Katz
Video of Shannon Walsh

Lantern Films Inc. (Hân Phạm and Dave Rodden-Shortt)
Video of Nettie Wild 

Silent Tower Inc. (Priscilla Galvez and Jeff Pavlopoulos)
Video of FASTWÜRMS

Aaron Zeghers
Video of David Garneau

Image of Pixie Cram filming video portrait of Evergon, 2023 GGArts winner
Image of Pixie Cram filming video portrait of Evergon, 2023 GGArts winner
Image of Aaron Adetuyi and Jody Racicot filming video portrait of Grace Nickel, 2023 GGArts winner.
Image of Aaron Adetuyi and Jody Racicot filming video portrait of Grace Nickel, 2023 GGArts winner.

Video Archive

In addition to the GGArts website, the videos are available on Youtube

Visit the Winners page to see this year's video portraits