Sydney Southam is a filmmaker, performance artist, and professional pole dancer. She often works with archival 16mm film, exploring themes of nostalgia, death, memory, and identity. Her current work explores the backstage and domestic lives of exotic dancers and how their private and professional lives are defined through ideas of Feminism, objectification, power, and love. Sydney is one of the founding members of Vancouver-based Iris Film Collective, and the curator of the potluck dinner and artist talk series Special Sunday Supper. Her films and artwork have shown across Canada, Europe and Asia, notably at MOCA Taipei and Gabriel Rolt Galerie (Amsterdam). She graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA Fine Art First Class Honours in 2011 and from the University of Toronto with a BA in English, Philosophy and Cinema Studies in 2007.
Filmography
Director (8 Credits)
Daddy
Experimental, Short
Ice Cream
Experimental, Short
Postcards from a Ghost
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Qualicum
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Stoner2019
Documentary, Experimental, Short
That's Why I Like It2018
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Object2017
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Catharsis2016
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Producer (7 Credits)
Daddy
Experimental, Short
Ice Cream
Experimental, Short
Postcards from a Ghost
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Qualicum
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Stoner2019
Documentary, Experimental, Short
That's Why I Like It2018
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Catharsis2016
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Writer (2 Credits)
Stoner2019
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Catharsis2016
Documentary, Experimental, Short
Acting (1 Credit)
Catharsis2016
Documentary, Experimental, Short
3 Awards & Selections
Official Selection That's Why I Like It
Emmedia Gallery, Particle and Wave festival Calgary Alberta