Ian MacTilstra [ca] - Passage, 3:00, 2005

“Passage” is a non-narrative three-minute repeating film with a discordant soundtrack, originally devised to be viewed as a part of an installation in which perception is partially obstructed by oppositional lights. The resulting intensity of the viewing experience stresses both the mediated image and the contrast between physical and visual space. Depicting glowing, irradiated creatures spinning repeatedly in a spiraling, circular motion, the film’s heavy mediation trivializes and alters memory to render it farcical and amusing, like truth slipping away in favour of a more interesting narrative.
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Ian MacTilstra is a Montreal-born Anglo-Canadian raised in metro Vancouver. He has worked in a graphics design studio and has studied at Langara College’s Studio 58, The Emily Carr University of Art and Design and Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. In 2007, he founded “the Dustbin”, a provisional autonomous nonjuried venue for non-established work in Vancouver’s Commercial Drive neighbourhood. His work primarily concerns the structural manipulation of the intrinsic properties of mediums and their societal associations, and has been shown in North America, Scotland, Italy, Holland and Russia.