Residencies
Research As...
Justin Ducharme
From January to March 2024, writer and filmmaker Justin Ducharme will be programming events on campus at Emily Carr University sharing insight into the research practice behind his upcoming feature film project Seventeen. He will be presenting screenings, leading a workshop and hosting discussions that highlight the research that goes into his own creative practice.
Seventeen is a feature film written by and to be directed by Justin Ducharme. The story follows three urban indigenous people whose lives intersect over the course of seventeen hours through chaos, circumstance and the shared experience of familial and colonial displacement.
Events
Islands of Decolonial Love: Reading & Reception
January 12, 6 PM
Aboriginal Gathering Place, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
KIN. Screening & Social
January 23, 2024
Social at 6:30 PM / Screening at 7:30 PM DJ set by DJAMA
Libby Leshgold Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Open Studio
February 12–14, 12–5 PM
Library Artist Book Room, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
WRITING WORKSHOP: CHARACTER MONOLOGUE
February 13, 2 PM
Library Artist Book Room, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Seventeen, A LIVE Table Read
March 7, 6:30 PM
Libby Leshgold Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
REALITY TV AS RESEARCH… real Housewives Watch Party w/ Chandra Melting Tallow
March 27, 6:30 PM
Libby Leshgold Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
GUSH by fox maxy, film screening
February 20, 7 PM
Reliance Theatre, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Biographies
Justin Ducharme is a writer, filmmaker and curator from the Métis community of St. Ambroise on Treaty 1 Territory. He was a fellow in the Sundance Film Festival’s 2022 Native Film Lab with his television pilot “Positions” adapted from his short film. He was the recipient of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Barry Avrich Fellowship and is an alumni of their 2021 TIFF Filmmaker Lab. Justin is also the co-editor of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers Poetry published by Arsenal Pulp Press. His writing has been featured in Canadian Art, Sex Worker Wisdom, Room Magazine, Prism International and Filmmaker Mag. He currently lives and works on the Unceded Coast Salish Territory colonially known as Vancouver.
Research As...
Research As… is a public program that makes creative research visible. Artists, writers, curators, designers, performers, filmmakers, are invited to engage with ECU and the wider arts community in a series of public programs that present their research practices.