VICTORIA

@ OPEN SPACE (510 Fort St.)

Screening 1: FRIDAY, JANUARY 18 @ 8:00PM »
Screening 2: SATURDAY, JANUARY 19 @ 8:00PM »

Regalia: Pride in Two Spirits

David Ng & Jen Sungshine | 2015 | 5:00 min

Duane Stewart shares his story as a First Nations queer person, who identifies as "Two Spirited". Duane talks about the importance of culture in his life, and his journey coming out to his family.

Amour is love

Hanna Che & Harry Forbez | 2018 | 10:00 min

Mariana, Jodie-Ann, and Diane are three queer as f*** women of color who discuss their past, present, and future without any filters or taboos.

I Like Girls

Diane Obomsawin | 2016 | 8:00 min

In this animated short from Diane Obomsawin, four women reveal the nitty-gritty about their first loves, sharing funny and intimate tales of one-sided infatuation, mutual attraction, erotic moments, and fumbling attempts at sexual expression. For them, discovering that they're attracted to other women comes hand-in-hand with a deeper understanding of their personal identity and a joyful new self-awareness.

My Fuzzy Valentine

Ben Edelberg | 2018 | 5:00 min

Put the Playboy centrefold in the hands of a Dyke and she will make her into a monster. A pulsating world of bug-eyed lesbian sasquatches and vaginal caves created from reclaimed textiles. Visual artist Allyson Mitchell's shape shifting materials and colors explode off the screen on hand processed and scratched 16mm film.

Emerge: Stone Braids

Evelyn Pakinewatik | 2018 | 8:00 min

Shot during Toronto’s inaugural Indigenous Fashion Week, Emerge: Stone Braids explores the medicine that community and family, as well as forms collective prayer can take.

HOME MADE

Diana Khong | 2017 | 10:00 min

Home Made is an intimate, contemplative portrait of two queer tattoo artists navigating an industry traditionally dominated by white, straight, cisgender males. The film weaves together the parallel narratives of Jasmine, a shop owner in Philadelphia, and sally, a stick-and-poke artist in Brooklyn, through their trials and triumphs

Fluids

Rob Fatal | 2017 | 14:33 min

6 years ago two artists attempted to make a queer, sci-fi porno: it failed. What emerged 6 years later out of its campy/ tragic/melodramatic ashes is this erotic experimental documentary; a meditation on the intersections of failure and fetish as well the meticulous, accidental processes of constructing of cinema and identity.

Old Home

Katharine King So | 2016 | 5:30 min

This experimental dance film explores the influence of post-war melodramas on experimental queer filmmakers. It also illustrates the media hysteria surrounding the AIDS crisis as an important time for the destruction of the nuclear home and ceasing the "othering" of minorities in order to move towards a time of queer solidarity and expression.

Exhumations

Dan McIntyre | 2018 | 8:00 min

Peeling back the shrouded image, Exhumation is a reanimation of long lost desire. A response to news of a celebrity paternity suit and the mythology adhered to it, Exhumation obsesses over buried memories to create one’s own monster from memory. Re-composed of images chemically treated to disintegrate, the figures peel their identities away to remain as ghosts of what once was. At once a diary of a death mask and of speculative hope, Exhumation dives through years of hurt feelings to find that although the body was here, you vanished.

Paskw‚w Mostos Iskwísis (Buffalo Girl)

Howard Adler, Candy Renae Fox & Leo Koziol | 2017 | 4:00 min

Set in the backdrop of colonial violence and the extermination of the buffalo. The Genocide of the buffalo parallels the loss of Queer Indigenous and Two-Spirit knowledge. In this film a Buffalo Spirit transforms into an Nhiyaw Iskwesis (a young Cree women), and a ghost like apparition sings Maori songs and underscores the links between colonialism on Indigenous peoples across the globe.

2 Spirit Introductory Special $19.99

Thirza Cuthand | 2015 | 4:47 min

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