Short bio:

Canadian media artist Penny McCann's body of work spans three decades and encompasses experimental, narrative, and documentary films. Her works have been exhibited at festivals and galleries nationally and internationally, including the Centre national d’art contemporain (Grenoble, France), the Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan) the Hamburg International Short Film Festival (Hamburg, Germany), the Canadian Film Institute (Ottawa), and the Cinémathèque Québecoise. (Montreal).

Longer bio:

Canadian media artist Penny McCann's body of work spans thirty years and encompasses both narrative and experimental films and video. Since 2000, she has been engaged in creating a body of experimental films that journeys through an abstract and poetic terrain, forming a sustained meditation on landscape, place and time. According to Cecilia Araneda in her essay titled Penny McCann: Within the Unsaid, A Response to Land Lines (of time and place) in no particular order: “McCann intervenes with our sense of the familiar with her use of hand-crafted analogue filmmaking approaches … purposefully setting it back into a kind of suspension that we immediately associate with the dream state of processing memories.”

Her work has been exhibited extensively at festivals and galleries nationally and internationally, including the Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan), Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (Germany), the Ottawa Art Gallery, the Cinémathèque Québecoise (Montreal, Quebec), and the Canadian Film Institute (Ottawa, Ont.). http://www.pennymccann.ca