Terra Jean

🌬️Media City Film Festival is thrilled to announce that Terra Long’s Chrysalis Fellowship supported feature 🌊”Feet in Water, Head on Fire”🔥(2023) will screen at the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look this Saturday, March 18 ❤️❤️❤️ Terra will be attending in person, please do not miss ! 🌸 @movingimagenyc @_terrapin #feetinwaterheadonfire #16mmfilm #firstlook #museumofthemovingimage #momi #terralong #analoguefilm

DOXA is one of my favourite film festivals! Delighted to be showing my film alongside so many brilliant artists and filmmakers. BAEA screens with the stunner Flower and the Flood by @weemassive . Feels particularly auspicious that these films so distinct but linked will play together. We were nurturing our films alongside one another, lending a hand, trading in images and ideas. Kaija Siirala and @zacharyfinkelsteinfilm also contributed to both. I feel so lucky to make films with my friends. Huge gratitude to @mariannethodas and @sarahbesque888 for the invitation and for their intuitive programming. You can catch both films at The Vancouver Cinematheque: Sunday, May 3 at 3:15 Sunday, May 10 at 3:00 PM

My short film BAEA will have its North American premiere at @fullframefest and the Canadian premiere @hotdocs_ next month. BAEA follows a winter season at MARS wildlife rescue centre as bald eagles are treated for lead poisoning. Commissioned by the wonderful duo @pikematerson and @hiflyparis for @elemental_shorts a project that invites filmmakers to illuminate how the elements animate our lives. Supported by the generous teams @sandboxfilms and Op-Docs. Thanks to @indoxfilms for distribution. Lead is among the heaviest metals. It can protect from radiation or; if it seeps into the blood and accumulates in bone, it can be deadly. It is both a shield and a poison. Every winter eagles feed on the gut piles of animals left by hunters who still use lead bullets. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service study reports that nearly 50% of eagles have lead poisoning. A staggering number. BAEA focuses on the steadfast and unflinching young women who do the work of rehabilitation and offer round the clock care. Treating eagles for lead poisoning is intensive and long and the outcome is often uncertain. I have immense respect for all of the animals that passed before my lens and am grateful for @marswildliferescue and the dedicated staff and volunteers who welcomed me into their world. Thanks to #KaijaSiirala and @cswilliscroft for their attentiveness to the sonic world of the film, to Micah Smith for the beautiful trombone score, to @zacharyfinkelsteinfilm for the deep attention to colour, to @natachaikoli for colour advice, and to @weemassive for the introduction to MARS and thinking through the complexities of lead with me. I could not have made the film without @kristatupper , an old friend who hosted me at her house for every production trip. It was a true joy to be reunited after so many years.

🪣 The Bucket Collective presents OPEN BUCKET, a series of visiting artist events. 💫 September 27 2025, 2pm: Light of a Thousand Stars, short film screening programmed by Diffusion Festival The seven films in this program hover above, in and around death with reflections on state violence, imperialism and environmental catastrophe amidst the current genocide in Palestine, among other sites of struggle. We will gather, we will mourn, and we will remember. With films by Sophie Sabet, vida zamora, Chantal Partamian, Marnie Parrell, Tomonari Nishikawa, Long Pham, and Samy Benammar 🗓️ Saturday September 27, 2pm 📍 The Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St, Vancouver 🎟️ Tickets by donation, see link in bio Diffusion festival is a project of re:assemblage collective. Since 2016 @reassemblagecollective has been committed to championing underrepresented voices and perspectives through public film/video screenings. ✨ October 18 & 19: Visiting artist Sharlene Bamboat 📽️ October 18: ‘if from every tongue it drips’ (68mins) screening at SFU Djavad Mowafaghian cinema. Sharlene Bamboat’s film explores questions of distance and proximity, identity and otherness, through scenes from the daily interactions between two queer women - a poet and a cameraperson. 📝 October 19: Collaborative aesthetics in moving-image & sound practice Sharlene Bamboat reflects on the aesthetics and tensions of collaboration through her practice with the merging of sound, image and text in her works. Zooming in and out of work and life, Sharlene speaks to the necessity, and political nature of collaboration as queer and feminist practice. Sharlene Bamboats @sissybam practice engages with translation, history, and sound to uncover sensory and fractured ways of understanding the relationship between the self and the social in transnational contexts. ‘if from every tongue it drips’ (68mins) screening: 🗓️ Saturday October 18 2025, 6pm 📍SFU Djavad Mowafaghian cinema, 149 Hastings St, Vancouver 🎟️ Tickets on sale soon Collaborative aesthetics in moving-image & sound practice (artist talk) 🗓️ Sunday October 19 2025 📍Venue TBA 🎟️ Free Thank you to the BC Arts Council for supporting these programs

THE BOTANICAL TURN: EXTENDED PROGRAM Joining Terra and Phil TODAY (!) for our post-screening Q&A will be Dandelion Film Collective member Kaija Siirala, intrepid editor of Feet in Water, Head on Fire! She sent along more BTS photos from one of several FiWHoF editing retreats. Kaija works in documentary media as a picture editor, sound designer and educator. She has a keen interest in process-based collaboration and storytelling that pushes against the bounds of classical narrative structures. Recently, she was an artist-in-residence at the Garden of Repairs, an active bioremediation garden at the corner of Barton and Caroline. The residency was spent exploring questions around what and how do plants listen and conversely, what sounds do plants and soil make during different parts of the year? What are the different ways we can listen to them? She will be facilitating a soundwalk in Barton-Tiffany lands sometime in the new year (follow @gardenofrepairs for updates) -- Feet in Water, Head on Fire (2023) , Terra Long DCP, Colour, Sound, 90 min, Canada/USA Preceded by: Deep 1 (2023), Philip Hoffman, 35mm, BW, Sound, 14.5 min, Canada Screening as an extension of The Botanical Turn: Films by Terra Long and Philip Hoffman. November 17, 3:15 pm @playhousecinema FREE ADMISSION Post-screening Q&A moderated by Derek Jenkins. The Botanical Turn is part of the Light Study Series. This event is co-presented by Dandelion Film Collective and Factory Media Centre and generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Image description in alt text and comment below.

THE BOTANICAL TURN: EXTENDED PROGRAM For more than a quarter of a century, the Independent Imaging Retreat at Film Farm has influenced and expanded the practices of artists in our immediate region and around the world. Stewarded by Philip Hoffman, the retreat has made a profound impression on the work of both Francisca Duran, whose work as teacher and practitioner was the foundation of our Botanical Turn program, and Terra Long, whose feature debut is paired with Hoffman’s film for our free event this Sunday @playhousecinema . Phil was gracious enough to share these photos from Terra’s time on the farm, and Terra, who has spent time there as facilitator and student, had this to say about the retreat’s impact: “My first film farm was in 2013. I was an MFA student at York and had been studying with Phil, so I was familiar with Phil's teachings in process cinema in a university setting but at Film Farm the practice is embodied and realized collectively in a multiplicity of ways that unfold throughout the week. It was a magical experience. The next year, I was asked to join the staff and have been with the collective ever since. Film Farm has been a continuous source of kinship, joy, and learning throughout my practice. “ -- Feet in Water, Head on Fire (2023) , Terra Long DCP, Colour, Sound, 90 min, Canada/USA Preceded by: Deep 1 (2023), Philip Hoffman, 35mm, BW, Sound, 14.5 min, Canada Screening as an extension of The Botanical Turn: November 17, 3:15 pm @playhousecinema FREE ADMISSION Post-screening Q&A moderated by Derek Jenkins. The Botanical Turn is part of the Light Study Series. This event is co-presented by Dandelion Film Collective and Factory Media Centre and generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Image description in alt text and comment below.

THE BOTANICAL TURN: EXTENDED PROGRAM Exclusive behind the scenes images from the shoot of Terra Long’s feature debut “Feet in Water, Head on Fire”! Screening this Sunday at 3:15 pm with Philip Hoffman’s “Deep 1." -- Feet in Water, Head on Fire (2023) dir. Terra Long DCP, Colour, Sound, 90 min, Canada/USA Screening as an extension of The Botanical Turn: Films by Terra Long and Philip Hoffman. November 17, 3:15 pm @playhousecinema FREE ADMISSION Post-screening Q&A moderated by Derek Jenkins. The Botanical Turn is part of the Light Study Series. This event is co-presented by Dandelion Film Collective and Factory Media Centre and generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Image description in alt text and comment below.

THE BOTANICAL TURN: EXTENDED PROGRAM Feet in Water, Head on Fire (2023) dir. Terra Long DCP, Colour, Sound, min, Canada/USA Along the San Andreas fault line in Southern California, Indigenous palm trees and date palms imported from West Asia flourish. The people who tend to them reflect a landscape of frictions and affections shaped over generations by agriculture, luxury real estate, and border politics. Like the infinity storytelling of The 1001 Nights, stories fold into dreams and back into stories, a constellation of voices settle over mountains and into the earth. Intertwining color 16mm with textural black and white film hand processed with the dates leftover from harvest and plants native to the valley Feet in Water, Head on Fire is a sensory, polyvocal evocation of place. Preceded by: Deep 1 (2023), Philip Hoffman, 35mm, BW, Sound, 14.5 min, Canada Terra Long and editor Kaija Siirala present at screening. Q&A moderated by Derek Jenkins. Bios: Terra Long is a filmmaker whose work circles cultural, personal, and natural histories embedded within landscape. Her practice is collaborative, with a commitment to deep listening and material explorations of celluloid. She is a member of the Independent Imaging Retreat Collective (The Film Farm) and F4A Collective, where she shares handmade filmmaking techniques. Her work has been shown in festivals including, Toronto International Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, Images Festival, Ann Arbor, CPH: DOX, International Film Festival Rotterdam, EXiS, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival among others. Her work is distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center. She studied at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University and received her MFA from York University. -- Screening as an extension of The Botanical Turn: Films by Terra Long and Philip Hoffman. November 17, 3:15 pm @playhousecinema FREE ADMISSION Post-screening Q&A moderated by Derek Jenkins. The Botanical Turn is part of the Light Study Series. This event is co-presented by Dandelion Film Collective and Factory Media Centre and generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

THE BOTANICAL TURN: EXTENDED PROGRAM Feet in Water, Head on Fire (2023) dir. Terra Long DCP, Colour, Sound, 90 min, Canada/USA Along the San Andreas fault line in Southern California, Indigenous palm trees and date palms imported from West Asia flourish. The people who tend to them reflect a landscape of frictions and affections shaped over generations by agriculture, luxury real estate, and border politics. Like the infinity storytelling of The 1001 Nights, stories fold into dreams and back into stories, a constellation of voices settle over mountains and into the earth. Intertwining color 16mm with textural black and white film hand processed with the dates leftover from harvest and plants native to the valley Feet in Water, Head on Fire is a sensory, polyvocal evocation of place. Preceded by: Deep 1 (2023), Philip Hoffman, 35mm, BW, Sound, 14.5 min, Canada Bio: Terra Long is a filmmaker whose work circles cultural, personal, and natural histories embedded within landscape. Her practice is collaborative, with a commitment to deep listening and material explorations of celluloid. She is a member of the Independent Imaging Retreat Collective (The Film Farm) and F4A Collective, where she shares handmade filmmaking techniques. Her work has been shown in festivals including, Toronto International Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, Images Festival, Ann Arbor, CPH: DOX, International Film Festival Rotterdam, EXiS, and the Edinburgh International Film Festival among others. Her work is distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center. She studied at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University and received her MFA from York University. -- Screening as an extension of The Botanical Turn: November 17, 3:15 pm @playhousecinema FREE ADMISSION Terra Long and editor Kaija Siirala present at screening. Q&A moderated by Derek Jenkins. The Botanical Turn is part of the Light Study Series. This event is co-presented by Dandelion Film Collective and Factory Media Centre and generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Image description in alt text and comments.

🎉TOMORROW Tues Sept 17 screening with PHILIP HOFFMAN in Vancouver 🏔!Post-screening convo with filmmaker, Terra Long! 🎉 Location: SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, downtown Vancouver Time: Tues, Sept 17, 6-8pm Philip Hoffman has been making artist film for more than 40 years. His recent work explores plant processing of motion picture film. vulture (2019) received the Kodak Cinematic Award from Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Fugas Award at Documenta Madrid. Deep 1 received a Jury Award at Ann Arbor. He has been honored with more than a dozen retrospectives of his work, and the publication Landscape with Shipwreck: First Person Cinema and the Films of Philip Hoffman, comprising some 25 essays by academics and artists. In 2016 Hoffman was awarded the Governor General Award in Media Arts. He currently teaches Process Cinema in York University's MFA in Cinema and Media Arts. www.philiphoffman.ca Tickets: https://www.sfu.ca/sca/events---news/events/of-memory-and-association.html @hoffman.philip @_terrapin @sfucontemporaryarts

Some weeks ago I had the joy and honour of spending time with Alanis Obomsawin legendary filmmaker/singer/activist/icon/hero. Her first major retrospective (long overdue) is on now at the #vancouverartgallery brilliantly curated and beautifully installed. Thanks to @susannancyrome for the invitation.

Heart is full after a beautiful premiere weekend for #feetinwaterheadonfire at @truefalsefilmfest . So in love with this crew. Thank you @sissybam @mems910 Kaija Siirala @alishatejpal @ssssamaraaaa for being there. Missed you @richy_carey @weavenwaves @natachaikoli