SACKVILLE - 22 FILMS OVER 2 NIGHTS!

@ STRUTS GALLERY (7 Lorne Street)

Featured Artist: Thirza Cuthand »

Night 1: FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 @ 8:00PM »
Night 2: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 @ 8:00PM »

Where We Were Not – Feeling Reserved, Alexus’ Story

Jess MacCormack & Alexus Young | 2011 | 6:00 min

An experimental animated documentary about criminalization in Canada. In “Feeling Reserved” Alexus shares her story of a ‘starlight tour’, a practice of police brutality against First Nations peoples in Canada where individuals are driven out of town, stripped of their coats and shoes and left to freeze to death. This work highlights the systemic violence at play and the silencing effect it produces.

Bedding Andrew

Blair Fukumura | 2011 | 4:42 min

On the eve of his 30th birthday, Andrew Morrison-Gurza reflected on his life as an LGBTQ man with Cerebral Palsy, and the event that helped shape his identity as a gay man. With wit and candour, Andrew's unvarnished recounting of his loss of innocence shines a light on the culture of desire perpetuated within the LGBT community, and ideas of body image, abelism and gay identity.

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.

Niagara

Shelley Niro | 2015 | 5:00 min

A simple story of love and loss. Niagara originally called Ongniaahra, a Mohawk word, from the Haudenosaunee Nations.

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.

Flash Flood

Alli MacKay | 2017 | 6:00 min

Deep within a dream, a cataclysmic flood washes over the planet, and reveals three unique perspectives on gender and identity. The film is animated by volunteer transgender artists and animators from across the globe.

Outcognito

Wrik Mead | 2017 | 5:00 min

Fear meets gay desire against an audio background of sitcom homophobia and jarring personal testimonies. Textured layers of figures, rotoscoped and real, move in and out of difficult scenarios, resolving into knowing acceptance.

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.

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Thirza Cuthand | 2015 | 4:47 min

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JIZZ ENVY

James Diamond | 2014 | 1:59 min

An adult oriented mock fairy tale where (“female”) ejaculation combined with true love brings a happy ending to a trans-male narrative. FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE

PAISA

Dorian Wood and Graham Kolbeins | 2019 | 8:00 min

PAISA is an immersive fever dream that celebrates the beauty of queer brown sensuality, body positivity and individuality. Says Dorian – "…I wanted to create a permanent reminder for us queer, trans and non-binary folks of color that our beauty stretches within and far beyond our times, in either direction…sex positivity grounded in mindfulness and consent. We are wiser than this world gives us credit for. We are powerful and plentiful. We are forever."

Selections from the Ektachrome Archive 1988-1996

Lyle Ashton Harris | 2014 | 7:07 min

Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2014: ALTERNATE ENDINGS / Selections from the Ektachrome Archive 1986–1996 is a snapshot chronicling the moments—now memories—of this charged decade. This selection features over one hundred images taken by Harris from his extensive archive of Ektachrome photographs. Bedroom scenes and personal mementos punctuate public presentations and social gatherings, as a register of Harris' life during the height of the AIDS crisis and its impact.