The budding filmmaker, a fourth-year film studies student at Ryerson University, showcased his three-minute 15-second piece, Parallel Lines, last weekend at Student Shorts, a Toronto-based film festival exclusive to post-secondary institutions across Canada and the world.
The eighth annual festival, which screened at the Bloor Cinema Sept. 26 and 27, aims to give young filmmakers a forum where they can showcase their work to their peers, the industry and the public.
This is the first time that Lint has submitted his work to such an event.
"I was looking to put my film into some festivals and this just seemed like a pretty good fit," said Lint, who learned about Student Shorts after seeing posters around campus.
Lint developed his dance experimental film as an independent study project for a film history course he took at Ryerson.
"It wasn't a traditional production class. We could make a film to illustrate what we had learned," he explained.
For his class, Lint said he decided to research dance films and learned that in dance film the relationship between the dancer and the producer is extremely important.
With that in mind, Lint recruited his friend Miranda Forbes, a fourth-year Ryerson University student studying dance, to choreograph and star in his piece.
Parallel Lines, whose title refers to a design concept, features a dancer in a bright costume inside a white sound stage with bits of black electrical tape fixed to the walls and floors. It also features an electro music track by Toronto artist Andre DePape.
"There's lots of jumping and energy and jump cuts," Lint said.
Lint said he's got high hopes for a future career in film and that he'd love to continue working as a filmmaker.
"It would be great to be able to make a living at that," Lint said, adding he's got another dance-style film in the works for his university thesis project.