Hope Peterson

Nascimento : , Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

História

Born in Winnipeg, now living in Toronto, Hope Peterson holds an MFA from Concordia University in Open Media. Hope is a media artist and filmmaker working in experimental, documentary and installation genres. Her artistic practice references the tension of isolation, transition, surveillance, privacy and the pressures of living in a landscape mediated by technology. Her work has exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the collections of the University of Winnipeg and the National Gallery of Canada. Hope is also a cultural worker primarily in artist-run centres, and is an experienced grant writer, adjudicator and mentor.

Filmes

Ambit
Director
Reeling in the filthy lanes of Winnipeg, a malfunctioning but still-observant camera conducts a post-traumatic investigation.
Memorial Park
Story
A fantasy of freedom, a stroll in the park gives rise to an opening up of unstable sexual codes, shifting identities and the empowering game of come and go.
Memorial Park
Producer
A fantasy of freedom, a stroll in the park gives rise to an opening up of unstable sexual codes, shifting identities and the empowering game of come and go.
Memorial Park
Director
A fantasy of freedom, a stroll in the park gives rise to an opening up of unstable sexual codes, shifting identities and the empowering game of come and go.
A Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke
Straight Sophisticate #3
A Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke follows a big boned butch into skirmishes, drag, and the arms of a beautiful recruit. The public and private lives of this "strange animal" are explored with the reverence and glee found in the educational exposés like Reefer Madness and bad-boy films like Rebel without a Cause. However, because this fictionalized lesbian history is a first-person narrative, it is filled with all the joy, pain, and ambivalence each of us experiences while negotiating a marginalized identity.
A Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke
Editor
A Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke follows a big boned butch into skirmishes, drag, and the arms of a beautiful recruit. The public and private lives of this "strange animal" are explored with the reverence and glee found in the educational exposés like Reefer Madness and bad-boy films like Rebel without a Cause. However, because this fictionalized lesbian history is a first-person narrative, it is filled with all the joy, pain, and ambivalence each of us experiences while negotiating a marginalized identity.
Threshold Economics
Director
Threshold Economics is surveillance video by the occupant subject. Tinged with a faint influence of radio noir, this cinematic immersion offers a complex of security peepholes, passing shadows, disembodied voices, the music of steam radiators. Installation at SAW Gallery, Ottawa in group show Take Me To Your Leader/Lead Me To Your Taker, May-July 2011; Single-channel exhibition in group show My Winnipeg, la Maison Rouge, Paris, June-August 2011.