Ellie Epp
2021Ellie Epp grew up on a farm in northern Alberta, graduated from Queen's University, Kingston with an honours BA in philosophy, psychology and English. She then went on to complete a post-graduate diploma in Film Studies from the Slade School of Art in London. Epp returned to Canada to edit her first 16mm film, Trapline. Other 16mm films made by her in the '70s and '80s include Notes in origin, Current and Bright and dark.
In her fifties she went back to school, looking for a new approach to the epistemology of perception and representation. She completed a PhD in Neurophilosophy in 2002. Her main theoretical work, Being about: perceiving, imagining, representing, and thinking, is online at www.ellieepp.com, along with a lifetime journal project and other work in photography, garden design and experimental writing. She taught in the Individualized MA Program of Goddard College from 2001 to 2013, and while there devised an embodiment studies program and a small press.
Current
Ellie Epp
"The conceptual and minimalist aesthetic seen in this film refers to the more complex metaphysical and alchemical transformations which occur when silver is exposed to tungsten light. These currents of light, like Daniel Burren's striped conceptual art, refer to the basic nature of representation while attempting to resist and transform traditional viewing habits or consumption. 'Current' is a beautiful meditation on these realities." - Maria Insell
Current
Notes in Origin
Ellie Epp
"Shot in northern Alberta, where the artist grew up, the film consists of ten long-take shots of various lengths divided by black leader bearing a number for each successive shot... notes in origin realizes the subtle lyricism that appears in the last image of its predecessor. Here Epp intimates a mysteriously shared and personal complicity of artist and viewer without, however, abandoning that purity and extraordinary elegance that mark Epp as one of the most accomplished of film artist." - Bart Testa, Art Gallery of Ontario catalogue
Notes in Origin
