Pixie Cram c.v.
http://artengine.ca/pixiecram
Festival Screenings
2011 Jewish Eye, World Jewish Film Festival (Ashkelon, Israel)
Bay Street Film Festival (Thunderbay, ON)
Film North (Huntsville, ON)
Ottawa International Film Festival (Ottawa, ON)
Gimli Film Festival (Gimli, MB)
Yorkton Film Festival (Yorkton, SK)
Toronto Jewish Film Festival
The 8-fest (Toronto, ON)
2010 Antimatter (Victoria, B.C.)
Media City (Windsor, Ontario)
$100 Film Festival (Calgary, Alberta)
Yellowknife Film Festival (Yellowknife, NWT)
SAW Video Resolution (Mayfair Theatre, Ottawa)
2009 Film Femini: Canadian Women's Visions on Film (Podgorica, Montenegro)
2008 Gimli Film Festival (Gimli, Manitoba)
Reel Dames Women's Film Festival (Montreal, Quebec)
Mystical Vibrations of Roots Multimedia Festival (Kaliningrad, Russia)
2006 Salt of Water Multimedia Festival (Kaliningrad, Russia)
Les Nomades Ontario Arts Council Mobile Media Tour (tour of nine cities in Ontario)
2004 RED Multidisciplinary Festival (Toronto, ON)
2000 Dawson City Short Film Festival (Dawson City, Yukon)
Installation / Group Screenings
2011 Square Pegs IV - Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, (Kingston, ON)
2010 Windows Collective - looping installation of experimental films at the Lumière Festival (Ottawa)
2009 Windows Collective - looping installation of experimental films at public locations across Ottawa
2005 My Culture includes My Scene (Ottawa Art Gallery) Film loop created for Dipna Horra's installation, Between the Folds
2005 Convergence: Art of Canadian and American Women (Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Lawrence, Kansas)
Film loop created for Maryse Maynard's installation, Les chaises de pépère
Performance
2009 Live video projections for electro-acoustic musicians Dream-Catcher, Boyscout Killers, & Adam Saikaley (Ottawa)
2008 Live video projections for the Acorn & Jim Bryson, Kelp Records 15th Anniversary at the Mayfair (Ottawa)
2007 Independent premieres of The Factory of Light, with live soundtrack performed by a quartet (Montreal & Ottawa)
2006 Synaesthesia 3 Multidisciplinary Festival - Live video projections created for Flotilla's debut album, Disaster Poetry
Awards
Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant (2011)
City of Ottawa Individual Artist Grant (2002, 2006, 2007, 2010)
Ontario Arts Council Emerging Media Artist Grant (2002, 2006, 2008)
National Film Board FIlmmakers Assistance Program (2006)
Independent Filmmakers Cooperative of Ottawa Major Film Production Grant (2002, 2004)
For the Windows Collective:
Corel Endowment for the Arts Award, presented by the Council for the Arts in Ottawa (2011)
City of Ottawa Project Funding (2008)
Collections
CFMDC
IFCO
SAW Video
Affiliations/Memberships
2011-present CARFAC member
2008-present Windows Collective - co-founder of Ottawa experimental film group
2006-present Artengine producing member; member of the board of directors (2006-08)
2003-2004 Main Film, Montreal
1999-present IFCO producing member; member of the board of directors (2002-03 / 2004-05)
Education/Training
2000 16mm Film Production Internship, IFCO
1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Specialization in Theatre Performance, Concordia University, Montreal
Filmography
2011 Bones
3.36 minutes, colour and black and white super-8; experimental; soundtrack by Craig Pedersen
2010 Prometheus in Five Directions
15 minutes, colour 16mm; live action narrative with stop-motion puppet animation
The Bathers
3 minutes, colour super-8 mm
The Wheel
4 minutes, colour 16mm, silent; originally created for installation
2009 Believe in Love: Mysterious Ways
9 minutes, HD; music video, collaboration with Mackenzie McBride
2008 Working at the H&S
3 minutes, black & white super-8 mm; collaboration with folk musician Jill Zmud
2007 The Factory of Light
30 minutes, colour 16 mm; fiction narrative set to live soundtrack performance, music by Pixie Cram and John Wrinch Williams
Secret Love
3 minutes, colour 16 mm; stop-motion animation music video; commissioned by Montreal-based pop group Flotilla
2006 Escalate
4 minutes, colour 16 mm; stop-motion animation, original music by Pixie Cram
2003 Four People Playing Instruments
4 minutes, colour digital video; experimental; commissioned for Remix, SAW Gallery Art Star Biennale
Berlin Zoo
3 minutes, colour super-8 mm, original music by Pixie Cram
For Michelle
2 minutes, colour super-8 mm, original music by Pixie Cram
Xerces Blue
12 minutes, colour 16 mm; fiction narrative
2000 Coil
4 minutes, colour 16 mm; live-action with stop-motion puppet animation