Callum Hill

Callum Hill

Callum Hill, 'E-Minor' (2024). Film still. Image courtesy the artist

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Callum Hill (b. Montreal, Canada) is an artist and filmmaker working predominantly with analogue film. Embedded with a documentary impulse, her works take root from real characters, lived experience, and historical events, which are refracted through the lenses of political and psychological consciousness. Her practice foregrounds the entanglement of the personal and the political, often approaching filmmaking as a situated and relational process shaped through research, conversation, and collective reflection. Although her work increasingly begins from factual starting points that are direct, timely, and accessible, Callum weaves these references together through her own intuition and memory, embracing a poetics of the image and of the mind that highlight her role as the composer of each narrative.

Her films have been screened and exhibited internationally at festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam and Images Festival, Toronto. Recent institutional solo exhibitions in 2025 include Dazibao, Montreal, Canada, and De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK. Her films are distributed by the artist film agency LUX, London.

Callum is the recipient of the Berwick New Cinema Award at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival and the Aesthetica Artist Film Award, and has participated in Film London’s FLAMIN Fellowship. Although known for her analogue filmmaking, drawing and printmaking are also integral to her creative process and sometimes feature within her film works. Alongside her studio practice, Callum engages in collective and discursive forms of work, including community-based research and reading groups. She has undertaken international residencies at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples; and VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, Florence, and has contributed to Fine Art education through teaching and mentoring on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Goldsmiths, University of London; University of the Arts London; and Cardiff School of Art and Design.

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