Lauren Marsden

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Bio

Lauren Marsden is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker and media artist of European and Trinidadian descent living on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her work has been presented by the British Film Institute, Pacific Cinémathèque, the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, New Media Gallery, Inside Out Film Festival and Cineworks among others. She holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts and a BFA from the University of Victoria.

Websites:

• https://www.laurenmarsden.com/

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Research Interests

As a storyteller, Lauren focuses on narrative and experimental works that explore gender, hybrid identities and the human impact on the land. Her research interests include explorations of Antillean and Caribbean identity, archipelagic thinking and tidalectics, queer representation in cinema, and climate storytelling. Her creative practice takes various forms, primarily through media artworks, films, curatorial projects, performance, and writing. Her narrative film work explores how "genre" can be used as a device for femme and gender-diverse ways of being and how film production can be reimagined as sites of change and reciprocity.