KINGA is a collaboration between Terrence and co-writer/lead performer Natalia Jachyra. This collaboration began in Łódź Poland at a joint artist-in-resdience program at the Pomorska artist-residency in 2019. KINGA is an upcoming mockumentary that follows a Polish-Canadian immigrant who, when faced with the overwhelming threat of our ecological crisis, returns to Poland in hopes of gaining eschatological clarity.

Musical score by Ryan Snyder

Release date TBA

Project Synopsis:

‘Berta Boys is a short film and exhibition that contemplates the teetering instability of Alberta’s hyper masculine identity. For Terrence, this exaggerated posturing has fused Alberta’s aesthetic and economic identities into a petrol-philic culture that is put on display via hyper-masculine regionalisms; roof-racks, lift-kits, oil-slogans and truck nuts, these are the accessories of the twenty-first century petrol cowboy. Driving forward with a self-assured camp, Berta Boys looks to open up this imagery by creating an isolated world where men turn their violent gaze on each other. Terrence is joined in the film by fellow Albertan artists Aaron Brown and Gabriel Esteban Molina as co-writers and co-performers. In an effort to explore the masculine archetypes found within themselves, the trio meditate on the unrestricted behaviours that blend tragedy with absurdity.

‘Berta Boys is funded in part by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Edmonton Arts Council, and MacEwan University.

Film Credits:

Director/Co-Writer/Editor/Lead/Production Design/Co-Producer: Kyle Terrence

Co-Writer/Lead/Production Design: Aaron Brown

Co-Writer/Lead: Gabriel Esteban Molina

Cinematographer: David Baron

Musical Score: Ryan Snyder

Production Manager/Co-Producer: Samantha Quantz

Sound Designer & Re-recording mixer: Jesse Luce

Upcoming Screenings:

Ontario International Film Festival, 2020

Edmonton International Film Festival, 2020

Great Northern International Film Festival, 2020

Calgary International Film Festival, 2020

Past Screenings:

ReelHeART International Film Festival, 2020

Deepcut Film Festival, 2020

Awards:

Best Short Films - ReelHeart International Film Festival

Best Experimental Film - Florence Film Awards

Best Production Design - Florence Film Awards

Best Production Design - Venice Film Awards

Drama Award - Deepcut Film Festival

Merit Award - Canada Shorts

Media:

https://www.latitude53.org/current/2019/4/10/kyle-terrence-berta-boys

https://www.gallerieswest.ca/events/kyle-terrence-%E2%80%99berta-boys/

https://canadianart.ca/agenda/kyle-terrence-berta-boys/

ENCHANTMENT(S) is an experimentation that works to close the gap between romanticized representations of the forest as seen in the genres of folklore, mythology and fantasy, and what we can experience in reality. For Terrence, forests are already inherently fantastical, surreal, and metaphysical, as there is an incredible overlapping of literal and aesthetic relationships that make up these complex microclimates.

In contrast to traditional landscape photography that is often characterized by viewpoints that provide grandiose vistas, Terrence utilized a practice that was focused on slowing down and sitting with the dark and quiet moments underneath the tree canopy.

ENCHANTMENT(S) was created during a two week artist-in-residence program at the Ou Gallery, British Columbia.

Exhibitions:

https://www.theougallery.com/exhibitions-events/2020/7/10/enchantments-kyle-terrence

Alberta #3 is a collaboration between Kyle Terrence and Bradley Necyk that started with their residency at Arts Letters & Numbers, Upstate NY. In this short film directed by Terrence, Necyk performs a written reflection on the complexities of his temporality in being a father with Bipolar disorder.

Upcoming Screenings:

The Art of Recovery Film Festival, 2020

Reel Recovery Film Festival, 2020

Past Screenings:

Longstory Shorts Film Festival, 2020

Out of Mind, OCAD University, 2019

This work was made as a part of a one month residency at The People's Lodge, and funded by the University of Alberta's ADGSA.

In this work Terrence questions transcendence as a model for contemplation: the desire to strip earthly bonds and elevate oneself beyond the physicality of place. He finds this method lacking, precisely because it aims to separate oneself from aspects of being that are already elusive and even inaccessible. Terrence instead looks to reject transcendence in favor of embeddedness; a closer look at the slippery and ethereal physical limits around him, rather than attempting a metaphysical leap beyond them.

In an attempt to overcome his phenomenological distance from the looming threat of the ecological crisis, Terrence sets out on a secular pilgrimage to create points of contact with his material world. Armed with a multitude of cameras, a vehicle, and a mammalian costume, Terrence documents this Pilgrimage, asking us to join him in contemplating both the kitsch banality and the temporal incomprehensibility of living in ecological end-times.

In collaboration with Canadian visual art Bradley Necyk during his residence for the Friends of the University Hospitals with Transplant Services, Alberta was created as a contemplation on the conversations and stories that came from transplant patients and donors. Co-written and co-directed by Kyle Terrence and Brad Necyk. Screened at the Metro Cinema in 2016.

The Phenomenology of Film is a film appropriation video installation that attempts to de-familiarize popular cinema’s eschatological themes of death and love. Terrence works to isolate the performances of these themes by stripping away the film’s context and narrative, as well as juxtaposing the performances against each other. The Phenomenology of Death puts actors into a stasis where they now continuously (re)perform the contemplation of their once immediate death against the backdrop of a cyclical and relentless system. The Phenomenology of Chasing looks to reduce the representations of Big Love in the recurring form of the romantic chase by isolating this moment into a physical feat.