Artist Talk: Sarah Genge, Jenni House Artist In Residence

This event took place on Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 5:00 pmYukon Theatre

This is a free event. Join us at 5pm for a meet and greet/ reception with visiting Jenni House artist, Sarah Genge. Talk will start at 5:30pm with a 20 minute screening of a work in prgress followed by 30-minute discussion.

During their stay this month at the JHAR, Sarah is editing a documentary about a small town in the Cariboo District, down the road from Barkerville, that was built as a company town for the adjacent hard-rock mine. Wells, BC was founded on a gold mine in the 1930s, but 100 years later not everyone is sure about the mines revival. Let’s talk about it! Genge will host a roundtable discussion on ethical and empathetic editing in the documentary form. Using newly edited scenes from their in-progress documentary film about the town of Wells, Genge will look to the community of Whitehorse to engage with ideas surrounding the ways in which editing can or cannot handle implicit bias, objectification and contrasting perspectives.

Sarah Genge (they/she) is an emerging independent filmmaker working in documentary and music video production. Their interests include exploring the natural absurdity that permeates everyday life, and creating community-based film projects. Their current interest resides in exploring so-called Canada’s relationship with resource extraction both in cities and rural environments. You can find their previous work at https://vimeo.com/alligatorsoupfilms.