Thursday, Oct 19
5pm – 7pm
Al Green Theatre
750 Spadina Avenue
Co-presented by Images Festival
Screening:
Gesture Down (I Don't Sing)
Women in Canada: A Trilogy
Downtown Trains
Other[wize]
Coureurs de Nuit (Night Hunters)
Mars-Womb-Man
withouthinking
hiberNATION
I'll Sing to You
All Indian All the Time
Tree
Forgive You
Ontario Premiere
A first-person interpretation of the poem Gesture Down to Guatemala by the late Blackfeet/Gros Venture writer James Welch, this film resonates with powerful ponderings on yearning and place. Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Cedar Sherbert (Kumeyaay) holds an MFA in film production from the University of Southern California School of Cinema/Television. His previous film Memory won the Best Short Drama award at imagineNATIVE in 2004.
Print Source: Cedar Sherbert
1288 W. 23rd St., #7
Los Angeles, CA 9007
USA
Phone: +1.213.749.8921
cedarsherbert@sbcglobal.net
iipay@hotmail.com
World Premiere
Women in Canada is a grotesquely funny and conceptually rich take on narratives of Canadian “nation-building.” With a unique treatment of sound and image, Parrell chronicles the stories of three diverse early Canadian women, capturing the pain, drudgery, hopelessness that characterized the lives of women in Canada. The trilogy will play as three separate segments in the program.
Métis artist, filmmaker and writer Marnie Parrell has a degree in semiotics and is currently completing an MFA at York University in Toronto. She received honourable mention for best emerging talent for Ahoy! Métis! at imagineNATIVE 2005.
Print Source: Vtape
401 Richmond St. W., Suite 452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
Canada
Phone: +1.416.351.1317
Fax: +1.416.351.1509
distribution@vtape.org
www.vtape.org
World Premiere
This visual poem quietly observes a shoeless girl against the backdrop of downtown Vancouver traffic and shunting trains. She is oblivious to the noise and commotion, focused on something...but what?
Cree writer and multi-disciplinary artist Warren Arcan is based in Vancouver.
Print Source: Warren Arcan
#405-1877 Haro St.
Vancouver, BC V6G 1H3
Canada
Canadian Premiere
In this single-channel version of a multi-media installation, Jenny Fraser intersperses photographs of her family — who were forcibly removed from their traditional lands in the 1800s to work on ranches — with glyphs and words in the Yugambeh language to reclaim the remaining fragments of a history most Australians wish to forget.
Yugambeh artist Jenny Fraser works at the nexus of art, filmmaking and new technologies. Her work often uses everyday symbols in challenging contexts and has been exhibited internationally.
Print Source: Panangka Production
5 – 12 Mott St., Gaythorne
Brisbane, QLD 4051
Australia
Phone: +61.409.255.487
dot_ayu@yahoo.com
French with English subtitles
Ontario Premiere
In this exceptionally beautiful experimental documentary, a group of Indigenous people are driven by unseen forces to go running at night. Their struggle with the police - and their determination as a community - become a powerful metaphor for the survival of a people.
This film was made by youth from Wemotaci in northern Québec through the Wapikoni Mobile project, a traveling audiovisual production and screening studio that tours northern communities.
Print Source: Corporation Wapikoni Mobile
3155 Chemin de la Cote-de-Liesse
Ville St. Laurent, QC H4N 2N4
Canada
Phone: +1.514.283.3542
mc.desrochers@onf.ca
World Premiere
Mars-Womb-Man is a companion to Diamond's earlier film, The Man From Venus. In this, his most recent work, the artist finds answers for some of his old questions as he explodes binary concepts of man, woman, mother, and father.
James Diamond is a writer, director, producer, and mentor in communications and multi-media. He has been showing work internationally since he made his first piece in 1997.
Print Source: Vtape
401 Richmond St. W., Suite 452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
Canada
Phone: +1.416.351.1317
Fax: +1.416.351.1509
distribution@vtape.org
www.vtape.org
World Premiere
A hip-hop beat pounds as grainy footage reveals city streets under surveillance. A lone figure paces inside and ponders on whether or not to go outside, as dialogue from Steven Soderbergh's The Limey lends a dangerous atmosphere to this inventive, intoxicating short.
Ehren Bear Thomas (Iroquois) is a multi-disciplinary artist and a member of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective. He started making videos when he was 13 years old.
Print Source: Ehren Thomas
thebearwitness@gmail.com
World Premiere
Serene winter landscapes glow and envelop in this meditative vignette.
Darlene Naponse (Ojibway) is an independent writer, director and producer whose films have screened internationally.
Print Source: Vtape
401 Richmond St. W., Suite 452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
Canada
Phone: +1.416.351.1317
Fax: +1.416.351.1509
distribution@vtape.org
www.vtape.org
Ontario Premiere
Awkward moments unfold when a city girl returns to the reserve and meets her half-brother for the first time.
Jennifer Dysart (Cree) has a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology and women's studies from the University of British Columbia. She recently completed a residency at the Banff Centre's New Media Institute.
Print Source: Panacea Entertainment
9876a 33 Ave., 2nd Floor
Edmonton, AB T6N 1C6
Canada
+1.780.436.5885
jdysart99@gmail.com
World Premiere
Artist James Luna has compiled several of his rock n' roll fantasy performances into a condensed take-no-prisoners look at what it means to be “Indian” in contemporary American society.
Multi-award winning Luiseño artist James Luna draws from popular culture and his life on the La Jolla Indian reservation in California to create works that probe cultural perceptions and assumptions. His art has been showcased at the Whitney Biennial, the National Gallery of Canada and at the 2005 Venice Biennale.
Print Source: James Luna
Star Rt. Box 150
La Jolla Reservation
Pauma Valley, CA 92061
USA
Personifying Mother Earth, a woman walks through her domain, observing her environment and what has happened to it. Featuring Lena Recollet, this film was commissioned by the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) for the New Directions in Cinema series.
Shelley Niro (Mohawk) is a filmmaker, painter, photographer, and writer who has exhibited her work extensively both nationally and internationally. She has won numerous awards for her work and completed a Masters of Fine Art at the University of Western Ontario in 2002.
Print Source:
Ontario Premiere
Raucous reflections on forgiveness and the conflicting nature of love and loss.
Sherrell Hutchingson (Haida) has a diploma in visual arts and recently graduated from the Aboriginal Film and Television Program at Capilano College in Vancouver, BC.
Print Source: Sherrell Hutchingson
3177 E. Georgia St.
Vancouver, BC V5K 2K9
Canada
Phone: +1.604.779.8940
sliciaga@telus.net