Screening

Dear Georgena

Cat Haines, 2024, 1:00

A letter written to Georgena, a transsexual woman who lived in Esterhazy in 1994, and wrote a series of letters and articles I found in archived copies of the Saskatoon-based LGBTQ+ publication Perceptions. This film features Super-8 footage that was hand processed with caffenol.

Inclinations

Danielle Peers, 2019, 6:00

Choreographed, directed and shot from disability perspectives, this dance-on-video delves into the playful connection enabled where disability, community and ramp meet, as well as the institutional histories and discordant inclinations that lurk just below the surface.

DUST

Jaye Kovach, 2022, 14:00

DUST (2022) is an exploration of legacy and what it means to me as a queer, disabled, butch trans woman living as a white settler on Treaty 4 territory. What does legacy even mean when your body and identity stand to be misinterpreted in your absence due to the rise of a global christo-fascism? When your very existence is inextricably tied to the ongoing histories of capitalism and the settler-colonial project, is it ethical to dream of leaving a mark on the world?

Tsanizid

Beric Manywounds, 2017, 6:00

Tsanizid means “Wake up” in the Tsuut’ina Dene language. In this contemporary dance work, artist Beric Manywounds presents a Two Spirit transformation journey and metamorphosis. Situated amidst the full moon, the night, and the first thunderstorm of spring which marks the new year, a dancer ventures into the unknown in search of new beginnings. By exploring the spiritual terrain of being a multi-gender being, we are brought into a space of healing. Through hybridizing performative video and contemporary dance," Manywounds gives shape and form to their futurist visions of Indigenous performance art and decolonized representations of gender.

Diamonds

Raphaële Frigon & Coral Short, 2013, 2:00

Raphaële Frigon tragically and magically cries diamonds through stop animation of over 600 photographs. Her tears begin to transform her angelic face into the realm of the grotesque. We invite you to witness her beautiful sadness.

Reclamation

Theo Jean Cuthand, 2018, 13:00

Reclamation is a documentary-style imagining of a post-dystopic future in Canada after massive climate change, wars, pollution, and the after effects of the large scale colonial project which has now destroyed the land. When Indigenous people are left behind after a massive exodus by primarily privileged white settlers who have moved to Mars, the original inhabitants of this land cope by trying to restore and rehabilitate the beautiful planet they belong to.

Starring Lacey Hill, Cherish Violet Blood, and Elwood Jimmy, these three 2 Spirit people describe the reclamation projects they are a part of including community gardens, farms of abandoned cows, The Baby Club daycare, and educational projects. Tinged with bitterness at colonization, these hopeful people are also wary of the possibility of the colonizers returning after all is cleaned up.

In response to 137

Cat Haines, 2024, 2:00

A silent film in response to the Sask Party's Bill 137, the "Parental Bill of Rights," which invokes the notwithstanding clause to 'override' the rights of Two Spirit and trans youth. In this 137 second long analog direct animation, the original image was scraped away, before being replaced with a hand painted animation with the colours of the trans flag.

Ephemera

ODMK (Oliver D.M King), 2023, 4:00

A Two-spirit male cruises a hook-up app as he looks for companionship for the night. A welcomed, familiar person invites him over as he contemplates his existence, the future, and what it means to be who he is in this day in age.