Five-Minute Film Festival

The First Annual Five-Minute Film Festival​, featuring Luke Blackstone (alumnus), Carole Itter (alumna + former faculty member), Allison Hrabluik (Assistant Professor), Natalie​ Purschwitz (alumna + sessional faculty), Rhoda Rosenfeld, Trudy Rubenfeld, Jenn Pearson (alumna) & Shyla Sellers, and Ana Valine (alumna).​

Th​is screening was initially organized to launch Itter's new film Charred Geese Searching for a Ceasefire. The films will be followed by a conversation between Carole Itter and Anna de Courcy. Both Anna de Courcy and the puppeteer, Beth Deispecker, worked closely with Carole during the making of the film.

EVENT DETAILS
Location: Reliance Theatre, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Date: April 10, 2026
Time: 5:30pm

100 Years in the Making | This event is organized in support of ECU 100, Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s centennial anniversary.

BIOS

Luke Blackstone primarily creates sculpture that moves or changes over a period of time. To document these works, he is drawn towards video formats to capture and edit the moving images. Occasionally, tangential productions occur without reason or expectation, documenting transient thoughts of the moment.

Allison Hrabluik is a visual artist, filmmaker, and Assistant Professor at ECUAD. Working across video, animation, performance, and installation. Her practice explores narrative structures, bodily gesture, absurdity, and the poetics of everyday life. Blending experimental and documentary techniques, her films often focus on repetition, choreography, and the tension between control and chaos.

Carole Itter is a Vancouver artist, film maker and sometimes a writer. She has worked with many materials, usually found, or used, or useless. Film is a fairly recent passion.

Jenn Pearson is a settler artist and hairdresser living in Vancouver. She works with discarded and natural materials in response to the social, historical and ecological contexts of her surroundings. For this screening, she has collaborated with Shyla Seller, an archivist, editor and musician living in Vancouver. Shyla and Jenn are friends who enjoy making things together sometimes.

Natalie Purschwitz is an artist who draws on modes of making that include collecting, accumulating, arranging, and reconfiguring materials. She is curious about the ways in which the earth is shaped by humans and nonhumans, through systems of organization, networks of support, and ruptures within these systems. By reconfiguring everyday objects and elemental substances, she creates conditions for material events Purschwitz currently lives and works on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ First Nations, also known as Vancouver. She grew up in a small town in the Canadian Rockies, in Ktunaxa ɁamakɁis.

Rhoda Rosenfeld, born in Tio’tia:ké/Mooniyang/Montréal is an artist living in the unceded, ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Watuth/Vancouver. Her work attends to perception, consciousness, behaviour, transformation, chance and the indivisible. Among the venues where her visual work has been shown are The Belkin Gallery, Griffin Art Projects, The Contemporary Art Gallery. Her poetry has been published in such magazines as The Capilano Review, Yellowfield and most recently in Some 10. Her motion pictures can be found on Vimeo.

Trudy Rubenfeld is an artist based in Vancouver. Making up her world since her childhood in Brooklyn New York, between the sea and the subway there as vision, as language, lies origin. Her work moves through painting, photography and animation,
revealing what is hidden, what is still unknown.

Ana Valine is a Vancouver based writer, director, and artist whose films have screened and won awards internationally. She is an alumna of the Canadian Film Centre, WIDC at Banff, TIFF Talent Lab, and Emily Carr University of Art + Design. From theatre, visual arts and writing, to experimental filmmaking, her creative projects have been enhanced by adventurous life experiences including a welder’s apprenticeship on the Alberta pipeline, training horses, tree planting, and a brief stint doing phone sex. Her narrative films have travelled to Spain, Russia, India, Busan, Turkey, Armenia, New York, Iceland, and more, and have been awarded for their tense family relationships and bittersweet dark humour. Her art films have screened at The Polygon Gallery (Lind Prize Runner-up Award), The Libby Leshgold Gallery, Paneficio Gallery, Modern Fuel, and the Or. Ana has recently completed an MFA degree with a focus on experimental film, is writing her third feature screenplay, and is working on a PhD in film & media studies at Queen’s University.

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