Tuktuit: Caribou
An experimental documentary created with handmade and manufactured emulsions exploring the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichens, and land use. Lichen developers help bring the images to life, while caribou hide is processed into gelatin to make handmade emulsion. Filmed primarily on the land in Nunavut where caribou struggle to maintain their lifeways amidst burn events, habitat disruption and changing conditions.
Saltwater Breath
Experimental poetic documentary blending 16mm, movement, breath, and environmental activism. Partially hand-processed in Cornish seawater, the film sits between eco-cinema, documentary, and moving-image art.
Repent, He Said
In a space between reality and heaven, the top tennis player finds himself facing an opponent he cannot beat. The sacrifices he made of his own soul haunt him in this one final game.
wakh^tahslu:nihe: Dressing Up the Garden
wakh^tahslu:nihe: dressing up the garden is an experimental dance film that asks what becomes possible when the body is understood not as an isolated anatomical skin-bound unit, but as a garden: relational, responsive, and cultivated through histories, weather, plants, and one another.
Technomaniac
TECHNOMANIAC follows the fragmented life of a humanoid machine, as it struggles with the weight of the expectations forced upon it.
Hell
On a dying farm in a fictional place called Ash Harbor, John Hardgrave searches for his wife. As he walks through a decimated world reminiscent of the 1930s Dust Bowl disaster, we glimpse a life slowly crushed over a single generation. The barren fields, the dead orchard, and the broken machinery meant to modernize the industry, too expensive to fix and left to rot, stand as remnants of a dream that withered long ago.
Inside
Somewhere between reality and dreams, Ali floats in the darkness, illuminated by a familiar light. His childhood self-calls out to him, urging him to reconsider the way he treats himself.
Auto
London, Ontario is a city with a seemingly never-ending construction season and a rush hour that feels like it lasts all day. This short aims to recreate the chaos and frustration that commuters feel in day in a city that prioritizes cars over individuals.
heart shaped box
Heart-shaped Box (2016) features home video footage of the artist, taken in 1995, at the age of 3, just four years after her family had immigrated to Canada. As they settled into their daily lives in their new home, grunge music was at the height of its popularity. Naqvi’s sisters were particularly taken by bands such as Nirvana, Live and Hole and in this home movie, Naqvi’s sisters teach their youngest sister to sing the lyrics to some of the era’s biggest hits.
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