Katia Houde is an artist from Montreal living in Toronto. Working with both found footage and original images, her practice explores memory, identity, absence, and the traces of trauma. She enjoys shooting on Super 8 and has recently rediscovered her Pixelvision camera. Her work has been shown in the USA, Canada, Peru, Mexico, and Spain. She holds 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
2021, b&w, 4min10sec
PixelVision
A woman repeatedly cleans and disinfects her home as pandemic fear transforms domestic ritual into compulsion, exhaustion, and quiet collapse.
Look Again
2019, b&w, 3min15sec
Found Footage
Using archival footage of girls at play, Look Again reveals how images of innocence can become unsettled by the act of looking.
As Can Be
2018, colour, 5min30sec
Animation, still photographs, iPhone video
A fragmented meditation on childhood loss, …as can be traces the filmmaker’s longing to recover the memory of a father she never fully knew.
Photography
And we created them in our own image
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
2006, multi-channel, Super 8, video, colour, b&w
Healing | Spaces examines the uneasy relationship between lived bodily experience and institutional forms of knowledge.
Contact
info@katiahoude.ca