Jennifer Dysart

Jennifer Dysart is an archive enthusiast and researcher with a deep love of found footage and experimental filmmaking. Her growing body of work disrupts the power of colonial archives through a commitment to returning archived media to the Indigenous people and homelands where they were recorded. Caribou in the Archive (2019) and Kewekapawetan: Return After the Flood (2014) are stories centred on family and community history and offer a critique of colonial power reflected through archival finds. Jennifer was born and raised in Alberta and BC and currently resides on the Haudenosaunee territory in Hamilton Ontario. She has Cree roots on her Dad’s side of the family from O’Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation, otherwise known as South Indian Lake, Manitoba. Through the A/CA she was Artist-In-Residence at Library and Archives Canada in 2019 and developed a perpetual research and screening project called Revisiting Keewatin made from source material documenting Catholic missionary activity in north and central Canada.