What We Never Lost
What We Never Lost
By Lindsay McIntyre
This artwork detail is a selection of double exposed images that depict and simultaneously obscure the beaded front panel of artist Lindsay McIntyre’s great-grandmother’s amauti (parka). These hypnotic frames are drawn from her silent, hand-processed Super 16 colour reversal animation Seeing Her (2020), and parallel the abundant skill, technique, and labour involved in the parka’s making with McIntyre’s studied, hands-on analogue filmmaking. Offering an experience of the garment that resists total visibility, the film stills enact a refusal of the ethnographic documentary lens that often accompanies images of Inuit and Inuit culture.
Lindsay McIntyre is an artist and filmmaker of Inuit and mixed settler descent who explores place-based knowledge, material practices, and personal histories in her experimental/documentary shorts. Her films have received numerous awards and accolades and have been presented at Anthology Film Archives, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the National Museum of the American Indian, Rovaniemi Art Museum, and in film festivals worldwide.
