Private Project

The Ensemble of Acetate and Polyester, ad lib

"The Ensemble of Acetate and Polyester, ad lib" obstructs and merges found film into a non-linear narrative of cinematic beginnings and endings. The process of production becomes a spontaneous act of performance as the experimental music-led film is conducted by sourced reels. In utilizing found materials "The Ensemble of Acetate and Polyester, ad lib" encourages repurposing film in forming new dynamic material.

  • Ghislan Sutherland-Timm
    Director
  • Ghislan Sutherland-Timm
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 4 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 30, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    16mm, Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Ontario College of Art and Design University
Director Biography - Ghislan Sutherland-Timm

Ghislan Sutherland-Timm (Je-iz-lan/Jess-lin) (they/she) is a multidisciplinary craftsman and amateur film archivist based in Tkaronto/Toronto.

As part of the queer Black Canadian diaspora, their artistic practice is influenced by their ancestral ties and reconnection to their Afro-Vincentian heritage and Carib (Island Carib/Kalinago) roots. In this process of activation they seek to merge their identities alongside their English and Scottish (Clan Sutherland) ancestry in understanding fragmentations of their multicultural identity hosted within embodying living entities, memories, and land formations. Their work is also ignited by the ephemerality and tactility of sound and film. In creating "incomplete complete" works, collage-making across diverse mediums are frequently utilized within their practice to shape autobiographical-fictional narratives and subjects of ambiguous beings. Through this intersection Sutherland-Timm navigates unraveling the mythologies and romanticization of home and homecoming.

Previous works of Sutherland-Timm's has been featured at the ArtSpace Gallery (2023), Images Festival (2023), PITCH Magazine Issue 4 (2023) & Issue 2 (2021), RBC Commission Career Launcher OCAD U x RBC (2022), InsideOut 2SLGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival (2022), Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF) (2022), and Nia Centre for the Arts in collaboration with McMaster Museum of Art (2021).

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