Leigh Fisher
New Atlantis | 2008 | 4:32mins | Super 8/DV | Canada
Leigh Fisher is a filmmaker living in Montreal with a degree in film from Ryerson. She recently served as the coordinator of Video Out Distribution in Vancouver. After some years in documentary based video, she has returned to shooting film and is exploring haptic aesthetics and the poetics of reanimated objects. Her work has received the support of the Canada Council Media Arts Section and has been screened nationally and internationally. Fisher is currently at work on a film about wave resonance and the outmoded technological/historical sites of the Bay of Fundy.
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New Atlantis is the second episode in a series of narrative fragments about haptic visuality and presence in Vancouver. In them Fisher plays with embodied contact with objects and living creatures that can occur outside fixed clichés of vision, touch and speech. The film tells stories about writing with the breath, interspecial communication through the artist, from one animal to another, what a cat has to say to a bird and magical, ephemeral curses that re-set the destabilized animals and landscape on this condo-crane riddled coastline. This film soundtrack has been created with the lightbulb filament recordings of Montreal sound artist Anne-Francoise Jacques.
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