Presented on a loop at the George Eastman Museum, March 4–June 1, 2025
Still from "Ajjigiingiluktaaqtugut (We Are All Different)." Courtesy of the artist.
Lindsay McIntyre is a multi-disciplinary artist of Inuit and settler descent who often works in the medium of analog film. McIntyre's seventeen-minute-long documentary Ajjigiingiluktaaqtugut (We Are All Different) will play on a loop in the Multipurpose Hall at George Eastman Museum, March 4-June 1, 2025.
Ajjigiingiluktaaqtugut (We Are All Different) is structured in eight sections that build to form a remarkable statement about Indigenous identity. Featuring stop-motion animation and hand-scratched film emulsion textures, the imagery follows the captivating movements of several antique wind-up toy bears. Being animals of great significance to Inuit culture, the bears forage in a northern landscape accompanied by a soundtrack of interviews with five people of Inuit heritage. Each individual discusses their personal experiences around being Inuk from both within and outside the Inuit community. Questions about maintaining traditions, place, representation, and belonging are explored to form a unique portrait about being Inuit in the face of a rapidly changing world.
Public Program
Wish You Were Here: Lindsay McIntyre
May 7, 2025 at 6 p.m.
Dryden Theatre
Public Program Admission
Free for Members and students with ID
Free for SNAP and EBT cardholders and their families, and for active-duty military personnel and their families.
$15 nonmembers
About Lindsay McIntyre
Lindsay McIntyre (Canadian, b. 1977) is an Inuk artist and filmmaker who explores place-based knowledge, material practices, and personal histories in her experimental/documentary shorts. Process cinema techniques, celluloid manipulation, and handmade emulsions support her autoethnographic explorations, which often extend to film performances. She has made over 45 short films and received many awards and accolades. Her recent leap into narrative with NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind)(2023) garnered her Best Short at imagineNATIVE and a chance at the 2025 Oscars. Her related first dramatic feature, The Words We Can't Speak (in development) won the WIDC Feature Film Award (worth $250K), and has been supported by programs with Women in View: Five in Focus, Women in the Director's Chair, Sundance, Women in Film + Television, and the Whistler Talent Lab. Her current project, Tuktuit (2025), on view at the Contemporary Art Gallery through August 2025, is an experimental documentary that considers the intricate interconnection between caribou, lichens, Inuit, and habitat disruption and is made on caribou-gelatin handmade emulsion. She is a fellow of Sundance Native Lab (2024), Forge Projects (2024) and COUSIN Collective (2022), and she teaches Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on unceded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver.
About the George Eastman Museum
Founded in 1947, the George Eastman Museum is the world's oldest photography museum and one of the largest film archives in the United States, located on the historic Rochester estate of entrepreneur and philanthropist George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography. Its holdings comprise more than 400,000 photographs, 28,000 motion picture films, the world's preeminent collection of photographic and cinematographic technology, one of the leading libraries of books related to photography and cinema, and extensive holdings of documents and other objects related to George Eastman. As a research and teaching institution, the Eastman Museum has an active publishing program, and its L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation's graduate program (a collaboration with the University of Rochester) makes critical contributions to film preservation. For more information, visit eastman.org.
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