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Program: David Rimmer: Canadian Pacific 1 Amanda Thomson: Sleeping Mountains Lie Robert Schaller: In the Shadow of Marcus Mountain Lindsay McIntyre: In the Backyarden Amanda Thomson: Good Night Birthday When viewed from Point Grey the North Shore Mountains take on the silhouette of a sleeping woman. This idea has followed me around for at least a decade. In 2014 I made Sleeping Mountains Lie in response, but she persisted. For the last couple of years I have been working on a film that reworks the theme set out in SML, reuses its opening shot and finishes by taking it further East. Who is this woman, what have we made of her, where is her voice? This program does not answer these questions, as I hope the forthcoming film will. Instead it lends what I have tentatively titled “The Mountain’s View” some context. - Amanda Thomson Amanda Thomson is a filmmaker from Vancouver. Her work focuses on perspective, the subconscious and other things she can’t quite put her finger on. She is drawn to film by the tactile quality of the medium, and by its shifting nature in grain and cultural significance. Amanda studied Film Video and Integrated Media at Emily Carr University receiving a Bachelor of Media Arts in 2009. In 2014 she helped form Iris Film Collective who are currently in residence at Falaise Fieldhouse, Vancouver, as part of a program offered through the Vancouver Parks Board. Amanda recently returned from Paris where she developed what will be her next 16mm film at L’Abominable. While in Europe she presented a program of films from the collective at L’Alternativa’s Parallel on Independent Film Labs in Barcelona, in LaborBerlin’s annual screening Difraktion and at L’Etna in Paris. SWARM is a 2-night event that marks the launch of Vancouver's artist-run centre (ARC) programming season with exhibition openings, performances, screenings and special events. Artist-run Centres (ARCs) are collectives and non-profit organizations, run by artists, supporting new and innovative practices in the arts. With a rich history that spans over forty years, ARCs have had a significant impact on the cultural ecology in Canada and around the world. Canadian Pacific 1: Print courtesy of The Cinematheque Background image: screenshot from Sleeping Mountains Lie, Amanda Thomson, 2017