Winston Hacking

Place of birth:

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada:

Biography:

Winston Hacking is a moving image artist who combines found footage, collage, compositing, and tactile animation. While his materials and techniques are deliberately economical, his finished pieces achieve a remarkable complexity by transforming the mundane into the sublime through creative re-contextualization. His films have been shown at festivals for experimental animation, including Videoex (Zurich), the Lausanne Underground Film Festival and the Ottawa International Animation Festival, where he served as a member of the Official Competition Jury in 2025. His work has also been presented in microcinema and institutional contexts, including Other Cinema (San Francisco), RPM at Harvard CAMLab, UnArchive Found Footage Fest (Rome), Pleasure Dome (Toronto), Belvedere 21 (Vienna), and the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. Hacking’s methodology has been documented in Found Footage Magazine, ASIFA Magazine and the Sternberg Press volume Frame-by-Frame Stop Motion. He has been invited to present his research and process at RISD and CalArts, and he continues to share his findings through artist-led workshops and a Substack documenting his creative process. A past resident of the Toronto Animated Image Society, he also creates limited-edition risograph zines, including No Sweat!, Fog Nozzle, and A Dopey Photo Slop, which are distributed by Colour Code Printing.