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Romanian-born Canadian artist Laura Taler works across film, performance, and installation. Her work consistently examines the interrelations among movement, voice, memory, and history, employing cinematic and choreographic strategies to investigate how the body is able to carry the past without being constrained by it.  Beginning her career as a contemporary dance choreographer, Taler pioneered the dancefilm genre in Canada before expanding into multi-channel video installation and experimental narrative forms. Her work — praised for emotional resonance, wit, and striking visuals — has garnered nine Gemini Award nominations, a Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival, the Best Experimental Documentary award from Hot Docs!, Best of the Festival from New York’s Dance on Camera Festival, SAW Gallery’s Dennis Tourbin Prize for New Performance, and the Creative City Network of Canada’s Public Art Legacy Award.  She has been a resident at the Banff Center for the Arts, Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires), Carleton Immersive Media Studio (Ottawa) and a fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Berlin). Featured in theatres, galleries, festivals, and broadcast internationally, Taler’s practice negotiates a distinctive rethinking of cinematic time, space, and embodied knowledge.

 


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Laura Taler greatfully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Ottawa, the Toronto Arts Council, the Laidlaw Foundation, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, and Telefilm Canada.