Brittney Appleby
Brittney Appleby (they/she) is a queer interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker with a primary focus in experimental analogue film and photo techniques. Brittney holds a Diploma in Visual Arts from Langara College and graduated with their BFA majoring in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Spring 2021. She currently resides on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam First Nations, otherwise known as Vancouver, BC.
Brittney’s work spans across multiple analogue film and photo mediums including 16mm, super 8 motion picture film and 35mm, 120, large format, polaroid, cyanotype and wet plate collodion photography. They are inspired by the materiality of analogue practices and incorporate their background in painting, drawing and printmaking into their films and photographs. Common themes Brittney explores in their work are the body, chronic illness, trauma and memory. They see celluloid film as an alternative to the canvas and believe that distressing film through experimental manipulation techniques works as an excellent metaphor for the deteriorating and diseased body.
Brittney’s work has been featured in festivals across Canada including WNDX Festival of the Moving Image (Winnipeg, MB), ACCESS Festival (Vancouver, BC), Dawson City International Short Film Festival (Dawson City, Yukon), Edmonton Underground Film Festival (Edmonton, AB), Gateway Film Festival (Peterborough, On) and internationally in the Hungarian Disability Film Festival (Budapest, Hungary) CINEM’aMOSTr (Porto, Portugal) Silver Dusk 5 (Los Angeles, California) and Sister Midnight ll Festival (Los Angeles, California), Lateral Film Festival (Cosenza, Italy), Analogica (Bolzano, Italy), South Sound Film Festival (Seattle, Washington), Motivate Underground Film Festival (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), NeuroVisions Film Festival (Putney, Vermont), and Red Dawn’s 25th Annual Queer Feminist Film Festival (Ljubljana, Slovenia).
Brittney is passionate about accessibility in the arts and has worked to teach multiple low-barrier workshops over the last several years. She has offered one on one darkroom mentorship with other emerging artists and taught at organizations such as Still Moon Arts, EPFC North, Slice of Life, Cineworks, Dawson City International Short Film Festival, and Broadway Youth Resource Centre. Brittney has mentored under Lindsay McIntyre and Geoffrey Wallang, and is currently participating in a mentorship at the Cineworks darkroom with Jack Beatty learning traditional and historic cine and photo film processes.
