For thousands of years they guided us through this world, teaching us invaluable lessons about life and death.They strengthened our resolve and reinforced our connection to this land, to each other, and to the animals we share it with.They enriched our souls, empowered our imaginations, and defined who we are as a people.These… ⊕

While his pal Spider talks about the Zone in Tarkovsky's Stalker, a suite of landscapes offer counterpoints and accompaniments. A winter's tale.

2018 is a moment of increased visibility for trans people; recent cultural shifts see far more representation across the media, governance, and health care. But, it is still challenging to locate an entirely trans-specific history, or physical evidence of a past prior to these sudden and current "revelations” of… ⊕

three narrow flights up to a wood frame garret, the noisy public of the riad below gives way to rhythmic thrumming and knocking of a single wood frame loom. two silent Sisters sit side by side on two bare blocks –neither older than 20. one knot per heartbeat, another per breath, a four-handed quadrille. with the… ⊕

GHOST DAYS is a beautiful & haunting film that involves the conjuring of the spirit and the living audiences in Colonial & Indigenous culture. Each artist in GHOST DAYS hauntingly performs to the spirits of the decommissioned IXL Brick Factory (Medalta) in Medicine Hat, performing to fathers, mothers, love, pain,… ⊕

Governmentality. ... Governmentality is an expression originally formulated by the 20th-century French philosopher Michel Foucault combining the terms government and rationality. Government in this sense refers to conduct, or an activity meant to shape, guide, or affect the conduct of people. The repeated title Governmentality… ⊕

Inspired by a flashback about his birthmark, filmmaker Lester Alfonso is convinced that making a film will help confront a distant trauma rooted in cultural superstition. A follow-up to his award-winning film Twelve (2009), BIRTHMARK is a wry, sensitive, and candidly confessional exercise in creative anthropology. Soliciting… ⊕

Tender and poetic, four young friends set out on the land in search of medicines to cure a grandmother. Set in 1981, this lovely story of friendship and ingenuity is a testament to the strength of children and the memories of our childhood.

Mother and daughter embrace the difficult intricacies of explaining art to each other through an intimate action. This is intercut with a straightforward description of Joseph Beuys’ well- known 1965 performance, How to explain pictures to a dead hare. Absurdity and tenderness merge to reveal understanding as a sensory… ⊕

One of my many stories about the woes of taking psychotropic medications and their corresponding, extremely shitty 'adverse effects'.Psychosis included.

Based on their traditional lands with the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach, Listen to the Land places questions of Land, economy, culture and relationships front and center. Elders, language speakers, teachers and children introduce the viewers to the complexities of community life: from open pit mining to the annual goose… ⊕

Ochiskwacho is a sacred being, known to many Indigenous people as a spiritual messenger. Kokoom, an elderly (spiritually ailing) two-spirit woman has to decide whether to stay with her grandchildren or follow the Ochiskwacho.

Co-directed by Sheilah (Wilson) ReStack and Dani (Leventhal) ReStack, Strangely Ordinary This Devotion is a visceral exploration of feral domesticity, queer desire, and fantasy in a world under the threat of climate change. Utilizing and exploding archetypes, the film offers a radical approach to collaboration and the… ⊕

A Hand in Two Ways (Fisted), is a looping meditation on night as space of mysterious energetic transmissions. Animals, human bodies, children, ritual and performance are investigated as zones of conflict, desire and a visceral movement that is more felt than seen.A Hand in Two Ways (Fisted) is a collaboration with Sheilah… ⊕

Inspired by the work of Deirdre Logue and The Snake Pit (1948), NUTS recalls a moment where there is an attempt to silence or dismiss a person’s voice. Too often those in power scorn the experiences and beliefs of marginalized people. Their very thoughts can be called into question and they can be accused of… ⊕

This video is part of an online 2017 web series called Lonely Videos. The series was inspired by the term, “the lonely web”, which was coined by writer Joe Veix for Fusion. “(The lonely web)… lives in the murky space between the mainstream and the deep webs. The content is public and indexed by search… ⊕

This video is part of an online 2017 web series called Lonely Videos. The series was inspired by the term, “the lonely web”, which was coined by writer Joe Veix for Fusion. “(The lonely web)… lives in the murky space between the mainstream and the deep webs. The content is public and indexed by search… ⊕

Six powerful native women gather up to celebrate a new beginning and the end of the world as we know it.

Filmmakers Adam and Zack Khalil, in collaboration with artist Jackson Polys, investigate the recent court case that decided the fate of the remains of a prehistoric Paleoamerican man found in Kennewick, Washington State in 1996. The case pitted the Umatilla people and other tribes, who wanted to provide a burial to the… ⊕

Today is Rae’s 7th birthday and she’s excited for the party her mom, Ista, has promised her. But as the day wears on, it becomes obvious that the promises have been derailed by personal demons. As Rae’s strength is revealed, parental roles are reversed.

ᓯᑰᑉ ᐋᓯᕙᖓ ᑲᑐᔾᔨᖃᑎᒌᒍᑕᐅᔪᖅ ᓴᐃᒻᒪᐃᔪ ᐊᑭᓱᒃ (ᑭᓐᖓᐃᑦ, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ) ᐊᒻᒪᓗ… ⊕

The last piece of the film programme starts: a silent video plays, alternating between claustrophobic digital collages of carpeted cat trees and a Russian Ragdoll cat named Tucker, posing amidst file folders, printers, and the angles of a grey, windowless office.From the back row of the cinema, the artist sits behind the… ⊕

Rosemary Donnelly has been suffering from various auto immune diseases for the last 20 years of her life. A short list gives you an idea of how her life has been affected but not how she, her personality and life, is defined. She has Lupus, MS, Scerloderma, Myathemis Gravis, Diabetes, Congestive heart failure, Pulmonary… ⊕

“Women watch themselves being looked at.” –John Berger.

Unsettling, funny and intimate, The Pain of Others is both a body-horror found footage documentary and a radical act of empathy. The film concerns Morgellons, a mysterious illness whose sufferers say they have parasites under the skin, long colored fibers emerging from lesions, and a host of other bizarre symptoms which could… ⊕

When an immigrant Kurdish family set to pack their belongings and return to their homeland, they find themselves trapped in a nightmarish circle of events.

What you see is a dream I am having. The visions are spinning around and changing. I am lost. And it is still spinning.19/09/1983The day of my birth

Shot between Cairo and different locations in India, the film Dear Animal weaves together a short story by writer Haytham El-Wardany – titled “Lord of the Order of Existence” – about a drug dealer who turns into a strange animal, and a selection of letters written by Azza Shaaban, a director-producer… ⊕

This docufantasia blends original footage with found footage to craft an incomplete and mostly false history of the city of Moncton. Commissioned to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the city, the filmmaker chose to question this colonial milestone, by going back much further than 125 years. She uses mythical and historical… ⊕

Built in reaction to the infrastructural dispositions that unable the uncovering of accidental force relations hidden within the folds of everyday encounters (abandoned spaces) with autobiographical memories. It is a work about (re)inhabiting displacement.

Is thinking the associative process of gathering the scattered ideas of our consciousness, as Heidegger would lead us to believe? Perhaps. Or is it more exactly the method of rational inquiry that uses our powers of logic and reason? But rigorous reasoning can quietly lead into a winding labyrinth of madness: “I think… ⊕

Filmed on Roncesvalles Ave. in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1987 on Super 8 film and completed in 2013 for the premiere screening at The 8 Fest.

Utterances from Germaine Greer’s The Whole Woman haunts a woman making pancakes.

An exploration of Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl by Tiqqun, results in a PSA about the ‘dangers’ of women, youth, and beauty.

Infomercial aesthetics sell hard theory, a reflection on feminist cannons and consumption.

From the series “the Importance of the Non-Important” this work is a poetic exploration of the dream of the butterfly by philosopher Zhuang Zhou and the unavoidable fact we are all ephemeral.

It is body dance piece created electronically. It is an intervention that bridges the specificities of formalism with the politics of aesthetics.

A found super 6 mm reel of film with and old cassette tape with warped by time version of Sweet Jane by Lou Reed provokes a visual reflection on history as discontinuities.

An examination on the reality of mediated landscapes and colonialism.

A poetic exploration of how to build a beach in your own home. A study about the business of sand and its destruction of ecosystems. Recorded to four cameras during a process of three recordings in a period of one year.

Peace is the beginning of male designed new wars or the continuation of old ones. Old power destructive forces disguised as new rule a world where individual peaceful voices cannot be heard. Here we left others get killed to maintain our privileges.

The joy of celebrating being and forms. A work mediated by the use of hand held, chemical intervention and built of the remnants of filming moving landscapes.

The ascending and descending musical repetitions of shadows on sand.

I found a post online about blonde Asian bimbos, and this video is me reading the post aloud in my bedroom. This is a commentary of me being or not being self-aware of my gendered and sexualized identity in the digital age, and an attempt at the de-sexualization of my body by performing the very performative found script.

As I began the process of swinging the door in its predetermined arc, two things occupied my thoughts. One was that, in a modest but meaningful way, the anticipation of moving from one setting to another began to register agreeably in my consciousness, as I first felt the breeze from that other world make its way around the… ⊕