Christina Battle cv
EDUCATION
2003 to 2005 Master of Fine Arts -San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco,
California
1999 to 2000 Certificate in Film Studies - Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
1992 to 1996 Bachelor of Science degree with Specialization in Environmental Biology -
University
of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
AWARDS, GRANTS & COMMISSIONS
2006 The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto - Filmmakers Assistance Program
2005 The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto - New Directions In Cinema Series
James Broughton Film Award - San Francisco Art Institute
MFA Fellowships - San Francisco Art Institute
MFA SFAI Grant - San Francisco Art Institute
2004 MFA Fellowship - San Francisco Art Institute
MFA SFAI Grant - San Francisco Art Institute
2003 MFA Fellowship - San Francisco Art Institute
The Canada Council for the Arts - Research/Creation Grant for Film & Video
Artists
2002 The National Film Board of Canada - Filmmaker Assistance Program Award
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 Foreman Art Gallery - Time Inside the Image (3) - curated by Vicky Chainey-Gagnon,
Sherbrooke, QB
2006 Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery - Pulse: Film And Painting After The Image
curated
by Ingrid Jenkner & Barbara Sternberg, Halifax NS
Nuit Blanche, Toronto - "when the wind shifted" -
curated by Kim Simon, Toronto
White Box - The Searchers- Curated by Patricia
Maloney, New York
The Whitney Biennial - Day for Night, New York
LIFT ' s New Directions in Cinema - Memories of Moments from Here & There
(Retrospective),
Toronto
2005 Durham Art Gallery - if I could read your mind (a collaboration with Ryan Glenn
film/video installation), Durham, Ontario
SELECTED WORK
2006
hysteria (35mm, b/w, sound, 4 mins, January 2006) [Made with the support of LIFT & the New Directions in Cinema Series 2006]
three hours, fifteen minutes before he hurricane struck (35mm, b/w, silent, 5 mins,
January 2006) [Made with the support of LIFT & the New Directions in Cinema Series 2006]
traveling thru with eyes closed tight (map #2 - january 03 thru january 06) (35mm, colour, sound, 5 mins, January 2006) [Made with the support of LIFT & the New Directions in Cinema Series 2006]
2005
migration (16mm, colour, sound, 5 mins, May 2005)
the distance between here and there (16mm, colour, sound, 8 mins, May 2005)
nostalgia (april 2001 to present) (16mm, colour, sound, 4 mins, May 2005)
map (august 1 to 10, 2003) (16mm, colour, separate sound, 3 mins, May 2005)
following the line of the web (16mm, b/w, silent, 3 mins, June 2004)
2004
buffalo lifts (16mm, colour, silent, 2 mins, May 2004)
fall storm (california, 2003) (video, colour, sound, 3 mins, March 2004)
paradise falls, new mexico (dual projection 16mm, b&w, sound, 5 mins, March 2004)
2003
Graffiti Test #1 (16mm, b&w, sound, 2 mins, 2003)
2002
oil wells: (sturgeon road & 97 th street) (16mm, colour, sound, 3 mins, 2002, funded by the National
Film Board of Canada - FAP)
Cooper / Bridges Fight (16mm, b&w, 3 mins, 2002)
As a member of a collective of experimental filmmakers 'The League'
The Four Humours (16mm, multi-projection, 2003); elements (16mm, multi-projection,
2002); traffic (s8 multi-projection, Splice This! 2002); The Grocery Project (2002,
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in collaboration with The Iris Group)
in distribution with the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
SELECTED GROUP SCREENINGS
2006
VideoEx Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
2005
Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, BC
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
The Images Festival, Toronto, ON
The London Film Festival, London, England
Ontario Arts Council - Mobile Media Tour: Film & Video by Artist s, Various Locations, Ontario
Original Copy- benefit for Synoptique Film Journal, Montreal, PQ
Pleasure Dome New Toronto Work s, Toronto, ON, March 2005
Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (PDX), Portland, OR
SF Cinematheque - Hands-on the Hands-off, San Francisco, CA
wandering thru yesterday & distant tomorrows (a microlab exchange): Antimatter Festival
(Victoria, BC), Cinecycle (Toronto, ON), Artists television Access (San Francisco, CA)
2004
Antimatter Festival of Underground Film & Video, Victoria, BC
Cineteca di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
The Images Festival, Toronto, ON, April 2004
Madcat Women's International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY
21st Annual Olympia Film Festival's CINE-X Int'l Shorts Showcase, Olympia, WA
Pacific Film Archives - Alternative Requirements - San Francisco, CA
Planet In Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival, Toronto, ON
University of California, Irvine - Eyeberrations, Irvine, CA
Videoex, Zurich, Switzerland
2003
Antimatter Festival of Underground Film & Video, Victoria, BC
The Aurora Picture Show: Extremely Shorts 6, Huston, TX
Madcat International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA,
New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY
Pleasure Dome New Toronto Works, Toronto, ON
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