About

The 1000 Islands Film & Stage Artist Residency invites artists working in performance to participate in film and theatre projects, staged readings, script development, poetry and audio recordings.  Each residency is a project-driven short term stay.

Directed by Kathleen Reichelt and Wesley Rickert who have been working together since 2008, managing artist run spaces, producing feature length art films, audio recordings and live performance.  They are both writers,  practicing visual and performing artists, and together have performed as Burning Iceberg in NYC, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa and Paris.  More below.

Kathleen Reichelt is the program director for the 1000 Islands Film & Stage Artist Residency, bringing 20+ years experience in visual, performing and media arts.  She is the recipient of The Evan Hughes Playwright Award for the one-act comedy "Who Killed The Curator", founder of The Garage Theatre in Toronto (2008 - 2012), has worked for the Canadian Opera Company and CTV. Kathleen is a contributing writer to the NYC art journal Arteidolia, and her visual art is in the permanent collection of the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea. She is co-founder of 253469.

Wes Rickerts' films draw on his experience as an absurdist sound poet, noise band musician, visual artist and philosopher. "The Road to Elsinore", 2016, 96 minutes, was an official selection for BLOW-UP Chicago International Arthouse FILM FEST 2016, an official selection for the Annual Copenhagen Film Festival 2017, and semi-finalist for the European Film Festival (Mainstream & Underground), Moscow. "Reality River Snow Job", 2017, 99 minutes, received Honorable Mention from the 2017 LA Underground Film Forum for contribution to cinema. His absurdist writing & photos are published in "Maintenant #9, #10, #11, #12, A Journal of Contemporary Dada," Three Rooms Press, NYC. He is the co-founder of the 1000 Islands Film & Stage Artist Residency and co-founder of the 253469 Institute.