MISSISSAUGA
On land, memory, and the shaping of place
This body of work explores Mississauga as a layered landscape, where land, water, and movement carry history forward.
Beyond the idea of suburb, it becomes a place shaped over time, where history remains even when it isn’t immediately visible.
Developed through research, field observation, and narrative writing, each film is shaped through structure, pacing, and sound to surface what isn’t immediately visible.
It begins with observation.
Looking at what’s already there—a road, a river, a stretch of land—and asking what it holds.
What has passed through it. What remains.
The Credit River, known as Missinnihe (“trusting creek”), carries that history.
Trade routes. Movement. Community.
Landscape becomes memory.
Mississauga is often understood as a newer city.
But its history runs much deeper, through Indigenous presence, early settlement, agriculture, and the shaping of the suburban landscape.
In some of this work, land and water become the storytellers.
Geology, ecology, and time carry the narrative, rather than a single person or event.
A second film continues the story, looking at how the city took form more recently, through amalgamation, infrastructure, and the shaping of civic identity.
Each film is built through research, observation, and writing, shaping structure and sound to reveal what isn’t immediately visible.
Not a single narrative, but a place carrying multiple timelines at once.
I’m drawn to work that looks at place over time, and how land, movement, and history shape what we see.
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