Catherine Slilaty

Catherine Slilaty is a muldisciplinary arst working with animaon and drawing: she holds an MFA in Film Producon & a BFA in Film Animaon, both from Concordia University. Her current pracce is focused on examining our relaonship to the natural world and the interconnecons between organisms at all scales. In her work, she depicts otherworldly creatures which embody transformaon as an act of resilience and self-making. Inspired by microorganisms, plant life, and the interior structures of organic life, these beings act as celebratory vessels for hybridity and ambiguity The plascity of their bodies evokes playfulness and familiarity, while remaining uncanny and unsetling: through this duality, these beings propose a fluid noon of identy and what it means to be a living being.

Her films have screened in Montreal, Toronto, New York, Buenos Ares, Ionia and Annecy. Her MFA Thesis Porous Bodies (2022), a research-creaon project, explored the concept of the monstrous creature reposioned as a celebratory vessel to engage with flux, transformaon and kinship. The main studio component of this work, Moundform (2020), is an experimental short animated film which depicts a monstrous, abstracted creature in emergence: an amalgamaon of creatures and ecosystem, this vast body undergoes various transformaons powered by resilience. Moundform was awarded Best Experimental film by the Flickers' Rhode Island Internaonal Film Fest in 2021.