Kate Solar is a filmmaker based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Her documentary and experimental film work probes the boundaries of memory, examining what exists in the interstitial space between landscape and documentation. Approaching the analog film frame as tactile material offers new ways to investigate text and image as archive poetics. Solar holds a BFA in Film from NSCAD University. Her practice has been supported by Arts Nova Scotia, the Atlantic Filmmakers' Cooperative, the Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax, NS), Struts Gallery (Sackville, NB), Lunenburg Doc Fest, and more.
Education
2024 – BFA in Film, NSCAD University
Governor General's Academic Medal, 2024
Grand Prize Winner of the NSCAD Student Art Award, 2023
Hydrama Residency, NSCAD University / Hydrama Theatre, Greece, 2023
Creative Innovators of Tomorrow Award, NSCAD University, 2020
Screenings and Collections (selected)
Millennium Film Workshop: The Poetic Lens, New York City, 2025
Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, New York, 2024
Atlantic International Film Festival, Halifax NS, 2024
Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa ON, 2024
Fluxus Experimental Film Festival, Factory Media Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, 2024
Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, Halifax NS, 2023 and 2024
International Encounters Traverse, Toulouse, France, 2023 and 2024
NSCAD University Permanent Collection, 2023
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (video catalogue), 2023
Residencies and Programs
Media Arts Production Fund, Struts Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, 2025–2026
CFAT Media Arts Scholarship, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2024–2025
Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm), Mt. Forest, Ontario, 2024
Hydrama Residency, NSCAD University / Hydrama Theatre, Greece, 2023
Media Arts Production Fund, Struts Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, 2025–2026
CFAT Media Arts Scholarship, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2024–2025
Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm), Mt. Forest, Ontario, 2024
Hydrama Residency, NSCAD University / Hydrama Theatre, Greece, 2023
Exhibitions (selected)
Imagined Territories (Media Arts Scholars’ exhibition), Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, 2025
palimpsestos (Hydrama Residency exhibition), Port Loggia Gallery, Halifax, 2023
palimpsestos (Hydrama Residency exhibition), Port Loggia Gallery, Halifax, 2023
Memberships
Atlantic Filmmakers' Cooperative (AFCOOP), Halifax NS
Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax NS
Photo: Anson Chan