materials, language, memory, and time
Stephanie Dudley is a Toronto-based artist and filmmaker working across stop-motion animation, analogue film, and material-driven processes. With a background in motion graphics and design, she explores time, memory, erosion, and care through her work. She uses tactile methods including fermentation, physically printed and scanned text, and found materials. Her previous film, Little Theatres: Homage to the Mineral of Cabbage screened internationally, including at TIFF and the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Moving away from traditional narrative, her work takes sensory, poetic forms that attend to what persists beneath visibility and language.
She is presenting her current film, Invisible Harvests, in both English and French. Each version features hand-animated text elements printed and integrated in the respective language, reflecting the film’s engagement with cultural traditions, transmission, and what shifts or erodes as language is carried across materials and time.