Erin Weisgerber
Ⓒ Ralitsa Doncheva
Discover Erin Weisgerber’s work
Dans les cieux et sur la terre (trailer)
Qalouli
Minerva’s Owl (documentation)
Biography
Erin Weisgerber is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based artist working primarily with photo-chemical film – as well as video and sound – to produce installations, performances, and short films. She manipulates the photographic, chemical, and material properties of film to transform the world framed through her camera, rendering moving images that exist between figuration and abstraction, external vision and internal landscape.
Weisgerber is a member of the Double Negative Collective, a group of moving-image artists dedicated to the creation and exhibition of experimental and avant-garde cinema and who maintain an artist-run film lab. Since 2019 she is a member of Jerusalem in My Heart a live audio-visual performance project, with Lebanese producer and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh.
Weisgerber’s films have screened at venues such as the Karolovy Vary IFF, Ann Arbor IFF, Oberhausen ISFF, CROSSROADS, EXiS, the LA Filmforum, and the Cinémathèque Québecoise; and in installation at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Matadero Madrid, and the Seoul Hall of Urbanism and Architecture. She has performed at venues such as the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (Porto), Issue Project Room (New York), and the Beirut Art Centre.
Filmography
- Dans les cieux et sur la terre (2022) 11’38”, 16mm to 35mm
- Istashraktak (2021) 3’16”, 16mm
- Qalouli (2020) 6′, 16mm à numérique, Triptych video. Released online as a video single on Constellation Records.
- Now, please think about yesterday (2019) 22′, digital, Documentary commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture for the exhibition Our Happy Life: architecture and wellbeing in the age of emotional capitalism.
- From which even the memory of the darkness has vanished (2018) 16mm, variable, film created by arranging a series of in-camera segments
- Traces (2014) 5′, 16mm
- The sound of breathing (2012) 6′, 16mm
- Moving On (2008) 3’30, Super 8
Performance
- MORAINE (2023) – Live 16mm cinema performance in collaboration with musician Liam O’Neill (of SUUNS)
- JERUSALEM IN MY HEART (2019 – present) Constellation Records
Audio-visual performance collaboration with musician Radwan Moumneh
Live cinema performance using manipulated 16mm loops, reels, and multiple 16mm projectors
Over 50 performances throughout Europe and North America
Installation
- MINERVA’S OWL (2016) 3 x 16mm loops, projectors, loopers, filters, translucent screens
Film installation using 3 x 16mm B&W film loops projected through colour-separation filters to create a full-colour time-lapse image.