Artist and scholar Clint Enns interviews filmmaker and photographer Judah Iyunade about cinematic style and influences, following Iyunade’s recent solo exhibition “Alara” at the Centre for Cultural Arts + Practices (C’CAP) in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Clint Enns
Clint Enns is a writer and visual artist living in Montreal, Quebec.
The articles and projects in this issue stem from commissioned responses to the theme of “taste,” framed in part by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s text Distinction, which examines the relationship between taste and class.
“As I get older, my photographic practice is being challenged by a newfound sense of abject. I am still trying to explore themes of rebellion and angst but, perhaps, in a more reserved way through the use of satire.”
I first met Québécois filmmaker Guillaume Vallée in Percé, Quebec, at Les Percéides: La Grande Rencontre des Arts Médiatiques. At the festival, Vallée presented Le bulbe tragique, 2016, a film which was awarded Best Canadian Work at the 2016 WNDX Festival of Moving Image, and performed Promenade Éphémère, an expanded cinema collaboration with filmmaker Charles-André Coderre and musician Charles Barabé.
Christine Negus is a visual artist from London, Ontario whose work is at once strange, jarring, humorous, and intense.
Leslie Supnet began creating animated films in 2008. Although her films have screened at festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival and Oberhausen, she is particularly fond of the camaraderie offered at artist-run spaces and micro-cinemas. After studying in Toronto, she has recently returned to her hometown of Winnipeg, a place that has been pivotal in the formation and expansion of her practice.
Isiah Medina is a moving image artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, whose movies poetically address the politics of everyday life. Medina defines his place within a Godardian tradition by engaging politically with mediated images and communication. His diaristic movies document his relationships with friends and family and address issues of violence, love, camaraderie, and play.
