Pavitra Wickramasinghe received her BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design. Her multi-disciplinary practice is mainly concerned with new ways of conceptualizing the moving image. Pavitra has exhibited at the MadCat Women's International Film Festival, San Francisco, USA and Made In Video Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a grant recipient from the Canada Council for the Arts and the AFA. She has completed residencies at EMMEDIA and the Banff Centre and is currently completing her MFA at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

Stasis - mountain (video)

The process of creation and gaining mastery of the medium and the tools are important to me. The technology used in my work is never neutral; it explores and reflects the process of making and the act of viewing. The video was made by taping a single long shot of a distant mountain; the camera started in tight and over 2:37 minutes the camera pulled back till the mountain was a tiny indistinguishable smudge in the middle of the image. After I edited every single frame back to the original composition of the mountain, blowing the image up as much as necessary to fill the screen. The crisp, clear image slowly dematerializes in to pixels.

- Pavitra Wickramasinghe (2005)