Sonya Mwambu will share with audiences how they remix found footage to create films and still-image digital collages using their own production as well as found, and sourced media through CC-licensed and public domain works.

Sonya Mwambu is an experimental filmmaker and editor based in Toronto. Born in Kampala, they grew up in Canada and their work centres on the intersections of their identities through the exploration of race, language and the connections they find through their cultural identity and the experimentations of analog film. Mwambu holds a BFA in Film Production from York University.

Workflow audiences will witness:

YouTube

Gathering physical materials (buying postcards off ebay, finding film in thrift shops/garage sales, things in Mwambu's own home) and digitizing them for personal collection/archive.

Creative Cloud Suite: Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects.

This process map from her recent project with the AGO gives a sneak peek of the workflow audiences will see at this event:

https://www.1-home.net/process

Image still: from "The Shirley Card", where Mwambu sourced "classic" films and remixed them through camera and editing techniques to feature Black actors and share the history of Kodak's shirley cards and their racial bias.