BURN PILE by JC CULP

Super 8 Film Installations

FREE during event hours at select venues:

• Niagara Artists Centre

• The Film House

• The Bank Art House

Step up to a 1970s Fisher Price hand-cranked film viewer and watch a single personal item being burned. Each viewer shows its own scene from a decade-long process of purging and transformation related to shifts in gender identity and self-image. Visitors can crank forward, backward, or pause to view at their own pace. Mounted on tombstone-shaped wooden posts, the viewers turn each act of destruction into a focused encounter with memory and identity.

Explore displays during event hours at select MNFF venues: Niagara Artists Centre and FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre Film House (St. Catharines, ON) and Art Bank House (Welland, ON). Each location features two different viewers, with their own unique footage.

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JC Culp has made over fifty short films and videos in a diversity of genres and formats. Their long-format work includes the feature comedy Grilled Cheese Sandwich, the Canada-themed collage feature Taking Shelter, and an intersectional essay film, It Can Happen Here. Currently based in Vineland Station, JC merges rural ritual, collage, and cinematic experimentation to examine transformation and personal history.