Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk
Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk is a filmmaker and independent curator. She is invested in nurturing celebration, community, and dialogue around filmmaking, media art and their sister disciplines. She currently programs DIM Cinema, a monthly evening of contemporary short form moving images and cinematic collaborations at the Pacific Cinémathèque; and is Co-Director of Programming and Director of Operations for the Signal & Noise Media Art Festival at VIVO Media Arts Centre.
She makes films about absence, disassociation, longing, and their relationship to place and landscape. This winter she is emerging from four years of observation and research to embark on her first large-scale experimental narrative film, To: Hope, From: Here which will explore Vancouver’s gothic history, the impact of landscape and weather on identity and belonging, and alienation in Vancouver’s pre-Olympic Downtown East Side.