Lindsay McIntyre is an Inuk artist and filmmaker recognized for her work in analogue, experimental, and handmade film. Her practice explores portraiture and place-based knowledge through material manipulation and process cinema techniques, most notably the creation of handmade silver gelatin emulsions. She has made over 45 shorts and also does expanded cinema performance. Her most recent film Tuktuit: Caribou, which utilizes handmade caribou-gelatin, screened at Sundance, the BFI London Film Festival, Prismatic Ground, and RIDM, and was named one of Film Comment’s Top 10 Short Films of 2025. Prior to this, NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind) won Best Short Live Action at imagineNATIVE, qualifying for the 2025 Academy Awards. McIntyre, a Forge Project, COUSIN Collective, and Sundance Fellow, and Associate Professor at Emily Carr University, views film as a material practice akin to her grandmother’s beading.
While at MacDowell, McIntyre, advanced work on several 16mm material practice projects, including making handmade caribou emulsion related to her short documentary Tuktuit: Caribou. She also worked with mordençage, both color and black and white processing, and expanded her drawing and animation practice via 16mm under camera animation for a new documentary series, In a Name, about the world's first Inuk lawyer. McIntyre's work is currently included in the groundbreaking circumpolar exhibition Qillaniq at the National Gallery of Canada and she will be in nomadic residence in Kyrgyzstan in 2027.
