Kate Solar
(for once I dreamed
of you)
of you)
(for once I
dreamed
of you)
dreamed
of you)
Slightest
Pretense
Pretense
2025
This film takes as its starting point the poem On the Wing by Christina Rossetti, which I encountered amidst a family health emergency that hung over my time at Film Farm. Fragments of scratched text flicker throughout the film’s distorted landscapes. The film was shot on hi-con stock, mainly at night, using truck headlights as my light source. It was originally processed using a homemade developer made with comfrey leaves and then contact-printed and bucket processed again in the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co-op darkroom.
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Kate Solar
Canada
2025
6 min
Russian Premiere
Canada
2025
6 min
Russian Premiere
Kate Solar
A. Laurel Lawrence
A. Laurel Lawrence
A. Laurel Lawrence
A. Laurel Lawrence
Absent Currents (2025)
Eye piece (2024)
Somewhere Real (2023)
POND (2022)
Girl-like (2022)
lost/found (2023)
echo (2022)
Eye piece (2024)
Somewhere Real (2023)
POND (2022)
Girl-like (2022)
lost/found (2023)
echo (2022)
Filmography
Kate Solar is a filmmaker based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Her documentary and experimental film work probes the boundaries of memory, examining what exists in the interstitial space between landscape and documentation. Approaching the analog film frame as tactile material offers new ways to investigate archive poetics. Solar holds a BFA from NSCAD University. Her practice has been supported by Arts Nova Scotia, AFCOOP, the Centre for Art Tapes, Struts Gallery, and more.
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