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Katia Houde is an artist from Montreal living in Toronto. Her work deals primarily with memory, identity, mental health, and trauma, using both found footage and original images. She enjoys shooting on Super8 and most recently has rediscovered her Pixelvision. Her work has been shown in the USA, Canada, Peru, Mexico, and Spain. She has a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies and is currently pursuing a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at York University.

About

 

Katia is currently on the board of directors at CFMDC and has served as a juror for the NYCIFF for over two years. She is a former programmer with Ad Hoc, and a former board member of the8fest and aluCine Latin Film Festival. Katia has worked for several years in communications and publicity at the Toronto International Film Festival, Global Television, WIFT, and at the NFB. She is currently pursuing a PhD in cinema and media studies at York University where she is researching female experimental filmmakers who address trauma in their work.


Videos

 

No News From Home

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2021, b&w, 4min10sec

PixelVision

Filmed using a PixelVision at the height of the pandemic, No News From Home is a lyrical mediation on isolation and resulting mental distress.


Look Again

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2019, b&w, 3min15sec

Found Footage

Using archival footage of girls at play, Look Again evokes how a sinister gaze can threaten the innocence of unguarded moments.


As Can Be

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2018, colour, 5min30sec

Animation, still photographs, iPhone video

As Can Be is a meditation on the ephemeral, fragmented, and ambiguous nature of trauma memory. Reflecting on her father’s suicide when she was 7 years old…


 

Photography

 
 

And we created them in our own image

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2017, photography, installation

For many, family pets remain a bridge to nature. However, because of our impulse to want to control and manipulate nature, we have begun to denaturalize this connection.


 

Installations

 
 

Healing | Spaces

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2006, multi-channel, Super 8, video, colour, b&w

Healing | Spaces investigates the tensions that often resonate between embodied knowledge and science.

Contact

info@katiahoude.ca