Amalie Atkins, Artist – Saskatoon
Amalie Atkins is a Saskatoon-based artist from rural Manitoba whose cinematic fables merge performance, textiles, and film into richly layered visual storytelling. Her work has been exhibited at MASS MoCA, the Textile Museum of Canada, and internationally in Berlin, Paris, Montreal, and Bucharest. Her debut feature, Agatha’s Almanac, an extended meditation on memory, ecology, and the quiet force of one woman’s conviction, was shot on 16mm over six years with an all-female crew. The film won Best Canadian Feature at Hot Docs, and was the sole documentary selected for TIFF’s Top Ten Canadian Films of 2025. It is screening this month at the Cinematheque in Winnipeg, the TIFF Lightbox and Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto, and the VIFF Centre and Lochmaddy Studio Theatre in Vancouver.
- Walking by the river
I love the snow crystals and mist rising when it is -35.
- Dear humans
I treasure my friends, family, and favourite authors. Everyone has a story.
- Spending time with Agatha
Her way of life, the materiality of her world, and her steadiness through every difficulty.
- Bolex camera
Having my own camera has made incremental filmmaking easy. I can do a little bit of shooting every day. I like looking at tiny details that my eye doesn’t notice unless I have a lens.
- My new stamp and tiny seed envelopes
Today I am filling these with Agatha’s heritage watermelon seeds.