Alyx Duncan is a Pākehā and Australian artist and filmmaker whose work explores the intersection of movement and cinema. Her portfolio includes the critically acclaimed feature THE RED HOUSE, numerous award-winning short documentaries and fictions, and significant contributions to dance and theatre. Duncan also works across dance and theatre, and as a movement coach for screen (A MINECRAFT MOVIE, THE LUMINARIES, COWBOY BEBOP). Her poetic short THE TIDE KEEPER has screened at over 25 international festi- vals including MIFF, Annecy, Slamdance, and Busan, and won awards such as the FIPRESCI Critics’ Choice Award (Vladivostok), Best International Short (Whistler), and Best Film at NZIFF and Show Me Shorts. It is also a Vimeo Staff Pick with over 40k views. Her latest short film GROWING STILL won NZIFF’s Auckland Live Spirit of the Civic award. As a painter Alyx investigates states of ‘presence’. Her process of painting encourages an encounter more akin to ritual and poetry rather than being narrative driven. Through her work, Duncan reflects on the responsibilities and complexities of contemporary settler identity, motherhood, and ecological crisis - asking how we live meaningfully within systems we inherit but can choose to change.