Brittney Appleby (she/they) is a queer artist and filmmaker with a primary focus in experimental analogue film and photo techniques. Brittney works with 16mm, Super 8 motion film and 35mm, Polaroid and wet plate collodion (tintype) photography. They are inspired by the materiality of analogue practices and incorporate their background in painting, drawing and printmaking into their films and photographs. Additionally, Brittney draws from nature by creating botanical cyanotypes and using plant based eco-developers to process film. Other common themes Brittney explores in their work are the body, chronic illness, trauma and memory.

Their work has been featured across Canada in WNDX Festival of the Moving Image, ACCESS Festival, and Gateway Film Festival and internationally in Hungarian Disability Film Festival in Budapest, CINEM’aMOSTr in Portugal, and Silver Dusk 5 Festival in LA.

Brittney holds a Diploma in Fine Arts from Langara College and graduated with their BFA majoring in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Spring 2021.
Brittney is currently residing on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nations, otherwise known as Vancouver, BC.