November 2026
The Little Free Cinema
Kate Solar
Somewhere Real, 2023, 16mm animation, 5 minutes (looped)
The Little Free Cinema
Kate Solar
Somewhere Real, 2023, 16mm animation, 5 minutes (looped)
Roads fall into the sea and a travelogue breaks against the landscape. Writing and image fail. The film attempts to find a way to inhabit the margin between place and passage, between experience and representation. If a physical space can’t be represented as text, can text itself become a physical space?
The text and audio were created during a three-week retreat with NSCAD University and Hydrama Theatre on the island of Hydra, Greece. The film was stop-motion animated on a 16mm Oxberry animation camera in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Canada. Words shape themselves into latent image, flickering and rippling, never a permanent record.
Kate Solar is a filmmaker based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Her documentary and experimental film work probes the boundaries of memory and of documentation, approaching the analog film frame as tactile material to investigate the poetics of the archive. Her work often collaborates with researchers in non-art fields, seeking to bring emotional resonance to the foreground.
Solar holds a BFA in Film from NSCAD University. Her practice has been supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Nova Scotia, Struts Gallery, the Atlantic Filmmakers' Cooperative, the Centre for Art Tapes, Lunenburg Doc Fest, Nocturne, and more.