Artist

Jonathan Culp

JC is a nonbinary Hamilton-based filmmaker, musician and archivist on ODSP. They have produced, directed and edited over 40 short films and videos, as well as experimental features and film installations. Across five decades of underground media, they have worked extensively in found footage collage, social justice and personal/confessional modes. Their work often draws on pop culture history in both content and form.

JC operates The Unpopular Archive, which has preserved the orphaned media of several Ontario artists posthumously. The Unpopular Archive YouTube channel posts ephemeral physical media daily, and the Unpopular Arts Bandcamp page will soon host JC's electropop act Diddlyshit.

Artist Code: 770

Videography

Burn Pile

2025, colour, silent

MONDAY -> FRIDAY

2019, 00:00 minutes, B&W, English

I Regret

2018, 07:29 minutes, colour, English

Projections (compilation)

2016, 120:00 minutes, colour, English

It Can Happen Here (compilation)

2016, 112:00 minutes, colour, English

How Does It Work? (compilation)

2016, 92:57 minutes, colour / b&w, English

A New Place to Dwell

2015, 53:00 minutes, colour, No language

Taking Shelter (DVD compilation)

2014, 83:18 minutes, colour, English

Grilled Cheese Sandwich (compilation)

2006, 89:49 minutes, colour, English

Critical Writing

Canadian Film Week
by Janet Smith et al. The Georgia Straight, Apr 13, 2016.
Cancon Cinematic Crap Compressed into one Batshit Crazy Film
by Craig Takeuchi. The Georgia Straight, July 13, 2015.
You're Not Dead Until You're Forgotten: A Memoir Review
by Jonathan Culp. Spectacular Optical, Sept 10, 2014.
Gimme (Tax) Shelter: The '70s and '80s Were an Especially Fertile...
by Jason Tannis. Fangoria, Nov 2011, no. 309.
Activist video: What do activists and artists have to offer each...
by Jonathan Culp. Canadian Dimension, July 1 Summer, 2004, v. 38, no. 4.
It's All Rights Ma I'm Only Watching: What do activists and...
by Jonathan Culp. POV, Spring 2000, no. 39.