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Toni-Lynn Frederick is an independent filmmaker, writer, and installation artist from Vancouver, Canada. She has organized and curated various festivals and screenings in Vancouver, and recently researched, cleared, and edited all of the moving image archive material for the Victoria & Albert Museum’s recent exhibition, The Golden Age of Couture: Paris & London 1947 – 1957.

Her films contribute to the genre of first person non-fiction experimental documentary; they explore issues of personal identity, corporeality, intentional and unintentional gesture, and memory.  She is interested in shifting the traces of personal trauma into the public sphere, and her work attests to the paradoxically fragile yet resilient character of celluloid itself.  Her multi-media installations focus on building transient memorials concerned with the notion of pilgrimage, dedication, and commemoration.

She is interested in examining the traces of trauma, war, and genocide, as they are revealed in memory and testimony, altered topography, and the artifact as remnant, scar, souvenir, and pilfered relic. 

TL Frederick’s current research and written work explores the trace; specifically, the negotiation of post-war landscape and the strategy of re-enactment used in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah (1985), the notion of (un)representability in Jacques Rancière’s The Future of the Image, and Paul Hegarty’s response to Bataille’s “silence” and Agamben’s Homo Sacer .