JESTER
Lula-Belle Jedynak
See it On Campus: Level 1
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Visitor InfoSophie Burnett Memorial Award — Winner
AN EXPERIMENTAL MOVEMENT-BASED FILM BY LULA-BELLE JEDYNAK
Charlie is racing to find an outfit that she feels her best in.
Anxiety holds the upper hand as she knows the mischievous “closet jester” appears if she doesn’t find what to wear in time, so she learns to joke with the jokester.
CAST & CREW
Executive Producer: Sam Lai
Producers: Lucia Chio Felix , Alex Silva
Key Production Assistant: Callum Waters
Writer & Director: Lula-Belle Jedynak
Composer: Local Needs
Charlie: Eowynn Enquist
Jester: Tobias Macfarlane
1st Assistant Director: Lucia Chio Felix
Cinematographer: Lula-Belle Jedynak
1st Assistant camera: Aurélien Rosset
2nd Assistant camera: Tristan Hinder-Hohlweg
Movement Coordinator: Shion Skye Carter
Craft Services: Isobel Dawson, Margo Sidline
Gaffer: Indiana Wilson
Key Grip: Scarlett Sparrow-Felix
Best Boy: Adrian Dean
Grip & Electrics: Sebastian Syrota
Additional Sound: Josef Baby Pratte
Production Designer: Rabecca Talbot
Costume Designer: Dayne Imbeau-Holt
Jester Hat Creator: Jack Bumbala
Wardrobe & Set Assistant: Kiyana Darbandi
Makeup & Special Effects: Malia Janzen
Graphic Design: Callum Waters
Editor & VFX: Lula-Belle Jedynak
Additonal VFX: Kiyana Darbandi
About The Director
Lula-Belle Jedynak (she/her) is a Vancouver-based image artist and filmmaker whose lens captures the subtle poetry of movement, memory, presence and identity. Working primarily through photography and cinematography, her practice is deeply collaborative, often rooted in the world of performance and dance.
Often with a lack of words to process the human experience, she leans towards image-making as an expression. Through an intuitive visual language, Jedynak translates fleeting gestures and embodies stories into still and moving images that resonate long after the moment has passed.
Artist Statement
When an immense wave of emotion washes over me, I feel it in my body, and it sticks in my throat, motionless. This endless anxiety exists while I decide what parts of my identity I want to show to a world where everyone is seen now more than ever, and understanding it will be received at the beholder’s whim. I lean towards experimental image-based mediums where words fail to process these feelings. Growing up in a first-generation, Indonesian-Polish household and a multicultural community, I gravitate towards processing the human experience through movement rather than words.
