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An experimental documentary created with handmade and manufactured emulsions exploring the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichens, and land use. Lichen developers help bring the images to life, while caribou hide is processed into gelatin to make handmade emulsion. Filmed primarily on the land in Nunavut, where caribou struggle to maintain their lifeways amidst burn events, habitat disruption and changing conditions.
Lindsay McIntyre is an Inuk filmmaker whose work explores place-based knowledge, material practices, and personal histories. She employs process cinema techniques, material and celluloid manipulation, and handmade emulsions to her autoethnographic explorations, which often extend to expanded cinema performances. After 40+ experimental/documentary films and many festival awards, her recent leap into narrative with NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind) (2023) garnered her Best Short at imagineNATIVE and Oscar qualification. Her related first feature, The Words We Can’t Speak (in development) won the WIDC Feature Film Award (worth $250K), and has been supported by Sundance, Women in View, Women in the Director’s Chair, and the Whistler Talent Lab. Her most recent film, Tuktuit : Caribou (2025), considers the intricate interconnections between caribou, lichens, Inuit, and habitat disruption, and is made partly on caribou-gelatin handmade emulsion. She is a fellow of Sundance (2024), Forge Projects (2024), and the COUSIN Collective (2021), and she teaches Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr.
An experimental documentary created with handmade and manufactured emulsions exploring the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichens, and land use. Lichen developers help bring the images to life, while caribou hide is processed into gelatin to make handmade emulsion. Filmed primarily on the land in Nunavut, where caribou struggle to maintain their lifeways amidst burn events, habitat disruption and changing conditions.
Lindsay McIntyre is an Inuk filmmaker whose work explores place-based knowledge, material practices, and personal histories. She employs process cinema techniques, material and celluloid manipulation, and handmade emulsions to her autoethnographic explorations, which often extend to expanded cinema performances. After 40+ experimental/documentary films and many festival awards, her recent leap into narrative with NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind) (2023) garnered her Best Short at imagineNATIVE and Oscar qualification. Her related first feature, The Words We Can’t Speak (in development) won the WIDC Feature Film Award (worth $250K), and has been supported by Sundance, Women in View, Women in the Director’s Chair, and the Whistler Talent Lab. Her most recent film, Tuktuit : Caribou (2025), considers the intricate interconnections between caribou, lichens, Inuit, and habitat disruption, and is made partly on caribou-gelatin handmade emulsion. She is a fellow of Sundance (2024), Forge Projects (2024), and the COUSIN Collective (2021), and she teaches Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr.
