Factory Media Centre is thrilled to present our 20th Annual Members’ Screening!
Established in 2005, our Members Screening showcases the creative works from our community of members, highlighting a selection of Hamilton’s diverse new media artwork.
Our 20th Annual Members Screening premiered on January 25th following our Annual General Meeting, and is on view at Farside Bar in downtown Hamilton for the entire month of February!
Featuring works by:
Eleanor Abrahams, Lesley Loksi Chan, Steacy Easton, Taras Hemon, Derek Jenkins, Jordan King, Chris Myhr, Andrew O’Connor, Martha Steele, and Jamila Turkstra
Program
My Friend JP, Taras Hemon
JP and his neighbors were served with an eviction notice, ordered to clear their encampment site by April 14th, 2025. They are hoping to remain where they are and keep the place and community they have built until they secure stable housing. This film is a short document of JP’s experiences.
I am a Hamilton-based documentary filmmaker. My work is centered around environment, community and the collective struggle to create a better world. I create strong connections and relationships with the communities I work with as a part of my practice: I work in solidarity to share and amplify the stories of my friends and community members.
Glisten, Jordan King
Glisten was shot on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, in an area I spent countless summers and still gather with my family every October. The natural landscape still feels raw and magical to me, and I have sought to capture that in this roll of film. I shot this piece using a Bolex camera, it was filmed on one roll of 16mm film without any edits. The sound was recorded at the same time using an external sound recorder. This experimental short work has not been screened publicly.
Jordan King is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist working in film, photography, and video.
Gabby and Eleanor Go Up and Down the Mountain, Eleanor Abrahams
An experimental diary film of 2 girls going on a bicycle adventure on the beautiful Niagara Escarpment.
Eleanor Abrahams is a trans multidisciplinary artist based in Hamilton, interested in textures and recontextualization.
Letter from Blackhawk Island, Derek Jenkins
2024, 16mm, Colour, Wild Stereo, 2 min.
From her home in Blackhawk Island WI, the poet Lorine Niedecker traded lively and impactful letters with numerous peers, most notably Louis Zukofsky and, later, Cid Corman. After a brief sojourn in New York, she lived alone in a one-room cabin for much of her adult life, often walking several miles into nearby Fort Atkinson to work as a copy editor at a dairy industry trade journal until failing eyesight reduced her to menial labour. Niedecker connected to the outside world by post, and among the small shelf of books she kept for herself in later years were several collections of letters, including those of the composer Franz Liszt and his lover, the scholar Marie Catherine Sophie, Comtesse d’Agoult.
Letter from Blackhawk Island assembles images and sound gathered on the small plot of land by the Rock River where Niedecker lived, along with ambient audio from the sole existing recording of the poet’s voice, into the filmmaker’s own condensed record of prismatic correspondences.
Derek Jenkins (Canada/United States) is a motion picture photographer based in Hamilton, ON. His practice is handmade, personal, and documentary, with an interest in labour, ecology, and technology—specifically the reciprocal relationships between tools, materials, and ways of knowing. His films have screened widely, most recently at Fracto Film Encounter, Antimatter [media art], DocLisboa, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, the 8fest, and ARKIPEL International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival. His installations include a sound work, “The E6 Process” (2018), at Factory Media Centre as part of HAVN’s Sonic Art Series, and a film loop, “Contents” (2109), in Minding the Archive at Hamilton Artists Inc. In 2020, his film work, “Livestock,” was installed at McMaster Museum of Art as part of the exhibition, Animals Across Discipline, Time and Space. For several years, he worked as a technician at Niagara Custom Lab. He is Executive Director at Hamilton Artists Inc.
Gowanus Synergy Chorus, Martha Steele
3-channel sound installation and audio repository of the Gowanus Canal.
Martha Steele (Tkaronto + Hamilton) is a cross-disciplinary artist, researcher, and organic farmer.
A Stolen Reflection, Jamila Turkstra
This film explores life after sexual assault through the lens of performance and survival.
I am a filmmaker interested in telling stories that sit in discomfort and honesty.
Four States of Becoming, Andrew O’Connor
A four-part rhythm. Leaves drift. Water glows. Something breathes beneath it all.
Originally conceived as a four-channel installation and reconfigured here as a single-screen cinematic composition, Four States of Becoming traces a nonlinear cycle of birth, growth, death, and renewal through a choreography of natural phenomena – leaves, waves, wind, water droplets drifting between abstraction and recognition. A steady heartbeat pulses throughout the work, a quiet respiration that anchors each phase: a rhythm of life persisting across change. At its core is a tension between impermanence and continuity – an elegy for what fades, and what holds.
Composed through a series of real-time audiovisual performances, Four States of Becoming emerges from an improvisational methodology the artist has developed over many years of live cinema practice. Image and sound are shaped simultaneously, responding to one another in the moment rather than following a fixed score. The soundtrack – written and produced by the artist, their first in over a decade – features additional music and mixing by Aaron Hutchinson.
Andrew O’Connor is a Hamilton-based media artist whose work explores memory, ecology, and transformation through experimental moving image, projection mapping, and interactive experiences. Bridging digital technology and natural phenomena, his practice draws from personal field recordings, analog and circuit-bent processes, and live, improvisational systems to create works that drift between recognition and abstraction. Andrew is a co-founder of HAVN (Hamilton Audio Visual Node), a DIY collective art space that became a hub for interdisciplinary performance and experimental media in Hamilton, Ontario. In 2016, he also co-founded OPTICKS, an active experimental light art community focused on public space, collective creativity, and participatory media. His recent work reflects over a decade of exploratory practice, bringing together live audiovisual performance, installation, and cinematic form to consider ecological fragility, digital transformation, and what persists through change.
73 Cars on Highway 2, a kind of requiem, Steacy Easton
I made a small video work in memorial for when my father died. For about two minutes I stood in front of the storage locker that held the rest of his positions, and filmed cars passing on a nearby highway–until I hit 73, the age he was when he died.While filming, I faced towards the house he lived in for decades.He died of dementia, and the house is torn down by his neighbour. This is an act of memory.
Steacy Easton is a writer, and artist, originally from Edmonton, and a resident of Hamilton for the last eight years. They have published in the Atlantic Online, CBC, NPR, Spin, among many others. They have three books published: Why Tammy Wynette Matters for University of Texas Press, Daddy Lessons for Coach House, and 33 ⅓ volume on White Limozeen for Bloomsbury. Their art and performances have been shown in New York, Edmonton, Toronto, Hamilton, and Montreal. They have work in the collections of the Art Gallery of Alberta, the library of the National Gallery of Canada, and the Art Gallery of Hamilton. They were the 2022 Martha Street Artist in Residence, in Winnipeg, and the 2025 &Now Factory Media Artist in Residence.
Index of Accelerating Winds: Current Externalities, Chris Mhyr
10-channel audio, 2channel video installation drawing from an archive of winter storm wind recordings captured from the masts of ships dry-docked in the marinas of Hamilton Harbour. Installed in the underground chambers beneath FMC that were part of the first Canadian long-distance hydro-electric system in the late 1800’s.
The project is part of a new body of work titled Index of Accelerating Winds.
Both climate science and many non-Western belief systems consider the increasing frequency and intensity of wind events as an indicator that the larger interconnected web of Earth systems is dangerously out of balance.
Chris Myhr is an artist based in Hamilton who is interested in our complex interrelationships with water.
Riding the glass above the rescue trail, Lesley Loksi Chan
In this short film, Lesley Loksi Chan combines footage of a rescue trail shot between Tung Chung and Ngong Ping Village in Hong Kong in 2024 with audio from an interview with Bruce Lee conducted by Pierre Burton in 1971. Riding the Glass is a reflection upon proximities between generations and geographies.
Lesley Loksi Chan is concerned with questions of invisibility, believability and resistibility. Shaped by the histories of anthropology and cinema, her work asks how material culture and image culture affect the particular ways we think, remember, and live together. Through experimental, handmade and process-based filmmaking, she creates moving-images as mementos. She is a member of Automates, bb house and Dandelion Film Collective. Chan was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada which is situated upon the traditional territories of the Eerie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally including at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Textile Museum of Canada, Images Festival (Toronto), International Festival of Films on Art (Montreal), Anthology Film Archives (New York City), National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), British Film Institute (London, UK), and Berlin International Film Festival.
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About Factory Media Centre
Factory Media Centre is Hamilton’s not-for-profit artist-driven resource centre for film, video, new media, installation, sound art, and other multimedia art forms. Our mission is to develop and support a vibrant, sustainable, creative, and diverse community of Members and non-Members within Hamilton and its surrounding region.
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