Through collaborative projects, resource sharing and outreach, the Bent Light Collective aspires to realize a self-taught participatory cinema; invention as expression and action as art.
History
In August of 2012, the Bent Light Collective was formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Collective was formed with the intention of sharing resources, ideas, and research while showcasing expanded cinema and experimental film. Bringing together five inventor-filmmakers the collective’s vision is to illuminate forgotten futures and technological mythologies from the broken machinery of an unrealized cinema, while supporting the creation and exhibition of work by film artists through physically driven techniques. (Contact Printing, Direct Animation, Inventing, Building and Re-purposing Projectors and Cameras, Optical Printing, Pinhole, Slit-Scan, Bathtub Film making – to name a few.) The founding members of the collective are Mike Maryniuk, Heidi Phillips, Leslie Supnet, Doreen Girard and Andrew John Milne.