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… ⊕

Fifteen years in the making, The Complete Works adapts the work of internationally acclaimed avant-garde poet bpNichol. From comic book detective stories and westerns to documentary and magic realism; from hand drawn animation to computer generated images, The Complete Works wrestles Nichols writing off the page and projects it… ⊕

In 1995 when Thirza Cuthand was 16 she felt like the only lesbian at her Saskatoon high school. This turned out to be untrue, but the lack of visibility in her high school coupled with the lack of representation of Queer teenagers in the 90's made her make her first video, a comedic short about teenage lesbian loneliness and… ⊕

The sense of belonging of eleven Montreal residents who share their immigration experience, local or international is enriched by their understanding of elsewhere, others and globalization. Documentary # 6261 proposes an artistic vision of the city of Montreal at the intersection of the hybrid identities of the people who live… ⊕

Just like you do is a written poem, As a Deaf artist and as an artist involved in cultivating a community I reached out to some of my Deaf friends in order to realize this project. The goal of the work is to use sign language in order to articulate the struggles we as deaf individuals face, and in turn to allow viewers to… ⊕

Referencing sixties B-movies like “They Saved Hitler’s Brain” and “The Brain That Would Not Die,” “Ulrike’s Brain” finds Doctor Julia Feifer (Susanne Sachsse) arriving at an academic/scientific conference with an organ box containing the brain of the real Ulrike Meinhof, which was… ⊕

They Were Promised the Sea is an investigation into the circumstances that led to the mass migration of Jews from Morocco, an exodus inextricably linked to the Partition of Palestine, the creation of the State of Israel, and the dispossession and exile of the Palestinian people. Were Jews expelled from Morocco, as some have… ⊕

An experimental performance based collaborative film by Steven Davies (Coast Salish, Snuneymuxw and European ancestry) with Jeanette Kotowich (Cree Métis) and Dani Zaviceanu (Romanian Canadian), accompanied by a re-mix by artist, DJ, and sound producer Dean Hunt (Heiltsuk Nation).

“Returning to an… ⊕

A double dance performance in optical illusion costume made by Jesi Jordan.

An audio-visual portrait of Tokyo at the turn of the century.Soundscape by Peebles. Photography & image sequencing by Pearson. Details, essays and video excerpt (http://www.sarahpeebles.net/tokyo.htm)For video installation or viewing via flat screen monitor. “108” is a journey where image and sound immerse the… ⊕

A Black gay man and Black Trans woman’s memories of meeting point to the strong affection they hold for each other. This trilogy documents two Black queers as they remember meeting each other and the force of the friendship that developed from their initial meeting.

Labeeb is an intimate portrait of Sumaya, a Somali trans-‐woman. One video documents aspects of her daily life, while the other portrays Sumaya performing a Somali ritual usually reserved for women. This practice is one that Somali women undertake when preparing for a special occasion or ceremony. The practice itself is a… ⊕

"Everything from Here to Infinity" is an immersive virtual reality installation in which objects within the most comprehensive map of the universe to date, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), are depicted in the manner of abstract expressionist gestures.This project is inspired by the surrealist writer Jorges Luis… ⊕