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Christine Lucy Latimer (aka - Christine Latimer) (born January 24, 1980) is a Canadian experimental filmmaker and photographer.

History
Christine Lucy Latimer graduated from the Ontario College of Art & Design, currently OCAD University in 2002, with a double major in integrated media and photography. Her film and photographic practice has since been based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Art Works
Latimer's experimental film practice uses interconnected analog techniques such as direct animation, hand-processing, video/film hybridity and found footage to comment on the structural history of moving images.

Her photographic practice combines the use of analog techniques and photographic detritus to re-tool and reconfigure the comprehensive space of the image. She often works exclusively with found slides and film negatives, re-printing them in an analog darkroom. She also frequently uses alternative process chemistries of her own concocting.

Screenings and Exhibitions
Latimer's works have been exhibited in public institutions such as The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto's Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival,, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Pleasuredome Film and Video Collective. , Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography,, and MALBA Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires.

Her films have screened in over 125 film festivals, including The Images Festival (Toronto, Canada),  Impakt Festival (Utrecht, Netherlands), Antimatter Film and Video Festival (Victoria, Canada), San Francisco Cinematheque (San Francisco, USA), EXiS (Seoul, South Korea),, L'Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), Toronto's Scotiabank  Nuit Blanche and RIDM (Montreal, Canada).

Latimer's films have also been used as live multimedia components for large-scale music festivals, such as The Sziget Festival, (Budapest, Hungary), M'era Luna Festival (Hildesheim, Germany) and Beacons (Skipton, England).

Recognition
Latimer has been awarded grants from the Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council supporting the exhibition of her work. She has also received commissions from Oddball Film+Video (San Francisco, USA),