Joële Walinga is a Canadian filmmaker, artist, and writer. She studied Intermedia at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and Concordia University, and works conceptually across disciplines, primarily in film, but also including process sculpture, video art, and literature. Her work explores interiority, fantasy, fear, memory and its incongruities, subjective “truth,” grief and where it shelters within us. In her documentary and process sculpture work, she positions conceptual frameworks against public participation, with an interest in what can be revealed when a project is opened up to chance rather than shielded from it. Her works manipulate time and space, fiction and reality, creating otherwise impossible moments of structured observation, intro-and-outrospection, fantasy, kindness, reconciliation, and/or correction.

_{In 2019, Walinga was artist in residence at the John and Maggie Mitchell Art Gallery in Edmonton, and is an alumna of Berlinale Talents 2021, and the 2022 Zurich Film Festival Academy. Her work has been shown at SXSW, the Art Gallery of Ontario, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, DOXA, RIDM, MDFF Selects, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, The Khyber Centre for the Arts, Narwhal Contemporary, TRUCK Contemporary Art, the John and Maggie Mitchell Art Gallery, and MUBI among others.}

_{She is the co-founder of the free Toronto filmmaking gear program Everyone’s Camera, and the artist residency CASA PIP, offering month-long, free-of-charge stays for film workers in all fields to use the space without guidance, rules, or deliverables, in whatever way they see fit for their particular practice and its needs.}

_{Upcoming: FROM SOLITARY (hybrid feature film, in pre-production), ON MYTHOLOGY (short documentary film, in pre-pre production), HEAVEN (narrative feature film, in development), ROLY’S LIFE (hybrid feature film, in development), EXORCISMS (hybrid novel, in development).}