Film Screenings and Exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS
Director/Programmer The Shoe Project Shorts Exhibition - works by Shoe Project alumna from the GTA, Trinity Square Video Gallery, November 28 – December 2, 2023.
Producer/Director/Curator Taxi Stories - 15 Mobile Short Films about Immigration and Multiculturalism (shot by MFA Doc Media students). Initiative of Harbourfront Art Centre and Taxi Beck. Partially Funded by Canada 150 (November 2016 – June 2017). Exhibition took place at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto on June 27th, 2017. Represented at The Image Factory, School of Image Arts, February 12-16, 2018.
Co-Curator/Presenter The Distance Between, with Pierre Tremblay. Music by Ensemble Polaris. Ryerson Art Space, Glad Stone Gallery, Scotia Nuit Blanche presentation, October 3, 2015.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=XgBr2BKRciw&feature=emb_logo
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQCCBhxz-Co&feature=emb_logo
Co-Curator/Presenter Moving Frames, Shifting Boundaries - Artistic Experiments and Innovation in Film and Video. Co-Presented with Pierre Tremblay at Ryerson Image Centre Student Gallery, Toronto, Sept 18-Oct 27, 2013.
Co-Curator/Presenter Creative Interventions - Recent experimental films and videos of the
School of Image Arts. Co-Presented with Pierre Tremblay in Gallery 310 at Ryerson University, Toronto, March 21, 2012.
Co-Curator/Presenter Landscapes, Cityscapes and Mindscapes - Recent Experimental Films and Videos of the School of Image Arts with Pierre Tremblay. Scotia Nuit Blanche presentation at Ryerson University (outdoors), Toronto, October 2010.
Guest Curator for Sites for Seeing, Out of the Cineplex and into the Marshlands - Waterlines, Wetlands and Whirlpools: Recent Experimental Films and Videos that Hold Water. One of four show organized for Strutts Gallery, Amherst, New Brunswick, August 2010.
FILM SERIES
Three Experimental Film Series organized for and in collaboration with the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (Halifax, Nova Scotia), each with its own exhibition catalogue:
Time Changes/Changing Times: Canadian Experimental Films and Videos of the 1990s. (MSVU, 2002)
Placing Spaces, Spacing Places: Canadian Experimental Films and Videos since 1990. (MSVU, 2003)
Brisk Collages and Bricolages: Artistic Audits and Creative Revisions of Mainstream Media in Recent Canadian Shorts (MSVU, 2005).
URL: MSVU Art Gallery Publications:
http://msvuart.ca/index.php?menid=04/01&mtyp=20
Special Film Retrospective in collaboration with the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP):
Lipsett’s Legacy: Recollecting Collage Films from the NFB and CFMDC (2007).
Presented at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax, October 2007).
Presented in collaboration with the Available Light Collective at Saw Gallery (Ottawa, October 2009).
Catalogue available upon demand.
FILM FESTIVALS
MOBILE INNOVATION NETWORK ASSOCIATION - MINA
MINA (Mobile Innovation Network Association) – Before also known as Mobile Innovation Network Aoteroa or Mobile Innovation Network Australasia. The Mobile Innovation Network Association [MINA] is an international network that promotes cultural and research activities to expand the emerging possibilities of mobile media. MINA aims to explore the opportunities for interaction between communities, content and the creative industries within an increasingly international context.
Founded by Max Schleser in 2011, MINA is the longest running film festival in the Southern hemisphere dedicated to mobile and smartphone filmmaking with a focus on emerging film production forms such as AR and Mobile Cinematic VR. Gerda Cammaer has been a screening committee member since 2015, and is the co-curator of a special program with a focus on ecology titled #EcoSmartPhoneFilms since 2021.
See: http://mina.pro
MOVING - IMAGE - ARTS
Cammaer was the Co-founder, Organizer and Curator of the Moving_Image_Arts International Short Film Festival, with Co-founder Pierre Tremblay and Devin Shears, Festival Assistant. It ran from 2016 until 2025, and it always took place at the School of Image Arts of Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada, and online. Moving_Image_Arts was a one-hour carefully selected showcase of international short films and videos from around the world, all about a certain theme. In 2025 the theme was Jubilee, since it was the last edition.
Past themes were the following:
Light (2016), https://vimeo.com/318325706
Speed (2017), https://vimeo.com/318322899
Landscape (2018), https://vimeo.com/318323693
Memory (2019), https://vimeo.com/350787283
Portrait (2020), https://vimeo.com/647007137
Zeitgeist (2021), https://vimeo.com/653245917
Renewal (2022), https://vimeo.com/755988318
Reflection (2023), https://vimeo.com/890411515
Unknowns (2024), https://vimeo.com/1030571674
KEYNOTES and INVITED TALKS
Artist Talk and Screening of The B-Film Keeper (2010).
Post-Human Intimacies Graduate Summer Film Seminar, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada) - August 2, 2019.
Film: Another Death, Another Life.
National Symposium on the State of Celluloid, Part of the Inaugural Independent Film Festival (Halifax, Nova Scotia) - March 2007.
Frame-Ex: Experimental Filmmaking Today.
Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP) (Halifax, Nova Scotia) - March 2007.
Afterthoughts and Afterimages about the Afterlife of Film.
School of Communication, Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada) - October 2009.
Capturing the Fragility and Emphemerality of Life on Film: Three Experimental Films by Governor General Award Winner Barbara Sternberg.
Available Light Collective (Ottawa, Ontario) – December 8, 2012
Innovative Filmmakers.
Island Media Arts Festival (Charlottetown, P.E.I.) - May 13, 2012.
Mobile Innovations, Recent Trends: Notes on the programming of “On the Move.”
MINA - 4th International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Screening.
Presented with Max Schleser at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) (Auckland, New Zealand) – December 12, 2014.
Modern Day Flaneuse.
Docuverse bi-monthly Forum talk RMIT (Melbourne, Australia) - November 29, 2016: http://nonfictionlab.net.au/2016/11/docuverse-snapshots-5/
