Born in Ottawa and based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Kate Solar is a filmmaker working in first-person documentary and experimental film. Her work investigates the boundaries between image and text, landscape and archive.
Solar was the winner of the 2023 NSCAD Student Art Award. Her films have screened locally and internationally. In 2023, she was awarded a scholarship to attend a three-week artistic retreat on the island of Hydra, Greece. After the trip, she and the other three participants staged palimpsestos, an exhibition of responsive work, at NSCAD's Port Loggia gallery.
CV (Selected)
2024 – BFA in Film, NSCAD University
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
International Encounters Traverse: In situ, in tempore, Toulouse, France, 2024
Fleapit Cinema, Halifax NS, 2023 and 2024
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (video catalogue), 2023
Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, Halifax NS, 2023
International Encounters Traverse: Variabilités en échos, Toulouse, France, 2023
Written and Directed By, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax NS, 2023
(with NSCAD Photography Collective), Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax NS, 2023
palimpsestos, Port Loggia Gallery, Halifax NS, 2023
NSCAD Student Art Award Exhibition, Port Loggia Gallery, Halifax NS, 2023
Gaiety (with NSCAD Queer Collective), Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax NS, 2022
coming home (with NSCAD Photography Collective), Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax NS, 2022