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Selected Filmmakers 

An archive of the filmmakers and their projects with The Weight of Mountains. Filmmakers were selected from a competitive, global open call.

Curatorial consideration and selection is by co-founders  Timothy Despina Marshall and Melody Woodnutt alongside past filmmakers and current collaborators.


Selected filmmakers have gone on to present film or media artwork that they’ve created during the TWOM residency at TIFF; RIFF (Reykjavik), 57th Venice Biennale; no.w.here London; Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival; IFF Rotterdam; National Geographic; Sundance; KIAC Dawson City; CBC; National Museum of Art Osaka (permanent collection); touring programs with The Weight of Mountains (Australia, Iceland, London UK), Dawson City Film Festival, and a plethora of galleries and film events worldwide.

Dawson City, Yukon, Canada

 January - March 2018


MATTHEW ANTHONY BATTY  (usa)

JAKE BELLEW  (usa)

TESS HUTSON  (australia)

ZOE KINROSS  (britain)
Made X in residence

MELANNIE MONOCEROS  (canada)

TESSA REX  (australia)
Made Dawson City Limits in residence

AHMED SAFY EL-DIN. (egypt)

ALISA VOSTIKLAP  (germany)
Made Laughing Fishes Gave Me a Lift in residence

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Tissardmine, Moroccan Sahara

 September - November 2015

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ANITA BRYAN  (britain)
Made Shadows Stick Until the Sun Moves Them On in residence

GIL DELINDRO  (portugal)
Made Mount Analog and Burundam in residence

ROB LAU  (hawaii/usa)
Made Burundam in residence

TERRA JEAN LONG  (canada)
Made 350 MYA and Mount Analog  in residence.
Initiated research eventuating in Feet In Water, Head On Fire

JEAN-JACQUES MARTINOD  (ecuador)
Made Grabados Del Ojo Nocturno in residence

BJARGEY ÓLAFSDÓTTIR  (iceland)
in post production

MORGAN RHYS TAMS  (canada : on-site collaborator, facilitator)
made Strangers in a Strange Land in residence

Skagaströnd, Iceland

December - February 2013/2014

YU ARAKI  (japan)
Made Road Movie and Ólafur while in residence

ALASDAIR BAYNE  (scotland)
Made Brother while in residence

TEMUJIN DORAN  (england)
Made The Weight of Mountains while in residence

EMILY McALLAN  (australia)

JOLENE MOK  (china/hong kong)

SHILPA MUNIKEMPANNA  (india)

JAYNE AMARA ROSS  (france)
Made Like Kintsugi while in residence

BORIS SCHAARSCHMIDT  (germany)
Made Eldur Á Himni - Fire In The Sky while in residence

MORGAN RHYS TAMS  (canada)
Made A Cartography of Iconic Memory while in residence

RACHEL LIN WEAVER   (united states)
Made Húnaflói while in residence


Below video by Temujin Doran

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