WINNIPEG - 22 FILMS OVER 2 NIGHTS!

@ THE OUTPUT – VIDEO POOL MEDIA ARTS CENTRE (2nd floor Artspace – 100 Arthur Street)

Night 1: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14 @ 8:00PM »
Night 2: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15 @ 8:00PM »

* Filmmaker in attendance

Finding Queer Disability

Love Intersections | 2018 | 6:09 min

This film explores the intersection of queerness and disability, looking at the ways that culture and language are also part and parcel to many other communities, including the Autistic community and the Deaf community. This film was created by Love Intersections, a media arts collective of queer artists of colour in Vancouver.

I Want To Kill Myself

Vivek Shraya | 2017 | 8:32 min

Contemplating suicide: a biography.

Two Snakes

Kristin Li | 2015 | 9:33 min

An experimental animation and documentary about diasporic desires for foundational myths. Seeking a home in reclaimed ancestry and seeking a self in reappropriated narratives and finding fragments instead.

Call Tony

Mée Rose & Wy Joung Kou | 2018 | 9:00 min

Call Tony is an experimental documentation of queer kinksters exploring safety, healing, belonging, and play.

Flora

Chaerin Im | 2018 | 4:17 min

‘At Kindergarten I thought I could grow a penis from my vagina, just like the other boys.’ Although Chaerin Im was born as a woman, she never had affection or interest in objects or properties that corresponded to the category of ‘feminine’. At the same time, she never had the feeling that she should have been a man. Through twist and turns of uncanny sculptures resembling a penis and/or vagina or both, Chaerin questions the general gender connotations.

Métis Femme Bodies*

Chanelle Lajoie | 2018 | 5:51 min

Métis Femme Bodies is an exploration into the experiences of what has become a repressed identity in both Indigenous and femme forms. Métis Femme Bodies aims to offer visibility and voice to those who have been denied such luxury in order to accurately represent themselves and correct misleading narratives imposed by greater power structures.

Dear Lou Sullivan

Rhys Ernst | 2014 | 6:34 min

Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2014: ALTERNATE ENDINGS / The video is structured by the search for and desire to identify transmasculine elders and an intergenerational exploration of gay transmasculine identity. Utilizing interview footage, excerpts of Sullivan’s book “Information for the Female-to-Male Crossdresser and Transsexual,” VHS gay porn, and Grindr chats, Dear Lou Sullivan is a meditation on the life of the late trans man and AIDS activist that explores the bodily intersection of transmasculine gay and HIV+ identity.

Casualties of Modernity

Kent Monkman | 2015 | 14:20 min

Celebrity artist and humanitarian Miss Chief Eagle Testickle (Kent Monkman) tours a hospital specializing in the treatment of conditions afflicting Modern and Contemporary Art. Led by the Doctor of Fine Arts (Quinton Neufeldt), and closely supervised by the no-nonsense head Nurse (Gillian Edwards), Miss Chief encounters romance, tragedy and triumph.

Doppelgänger Memorandum

Clark Nikolai | 2017 | 6:00 min

In this claustrophobically surreal and comical short, a film-score composer is distracted by a haunted video monitor in the confines of his sound studio, where he watches scenes of disconnected conversations as a result of mis-dubbing. The slippage between dream and reality, past and present, here and there, leaves the viewer in a perplexed state.

Indigenous Luvvv (Hanky Code: The Movie)

Demian DinéYazhi' | 2015 | 4:41 min

A short film about cruising as an Indigenous Queer.

LOOKING FOR AN OUTER WORLD

Claude Périard | 2018 | 3:13 min

When I was a child, sitting in the back seat of the family van, and driving on the highway at night, the sight of all the lights flashing by and their reflections on the windows of the car gave me the impression to be a science-fiction character traveling in space. I wanted to recreate this imaginary by borrowing exactly the same path of my childhood; the highway that passes the oil refineries in east of the city and whose sparkling beauty contrasts fiercely with the anxiety that emanates from it.