Bio

Dana Inkster has worked as an independent producer and cultural marketer. Her art is based on the age-old practice of storytelling and includes short videos and broadcast documentaries, including the Gemini nominated and award-winning National Film Board of Canada production 24 DAYS IN BROOKS. 

Works

The Art of Autobiography

  • 2003
  • Dana Inkster

No two adoptees are alike. Harold & Peter, Lynne & Lynn, Maureen & Stephen and Dana candidly share their stories and reveal how being adopted shapes an individual’s identity right into adulthood.

The Art of Autobiography

Desire Lines (Video Compilation)

  • 2025
  • Various Artists

This is video compilation is part of the educational guide produced as part of Archive/Counter-Archive’s (A/CA) Case Study, Through Feminist Lenses: Video Works at Groupe Intervention Vidéo with Groupe Intervention Vidéo.

A woman with short hair in a black coat twirls on a snowy sidewalk near a Pharmaprix store.

Welcome To Africville

  • 1999
  • Dana Inkster

Inkster’s beautiful fiction references the destruction of Africville on the outskirts of Halifax in 1969. Four characters speak directly to the came ra about their lives and sexuality. This use of direct address says docu mentary, but the actors speak Inkster’s bittersweet words.

Dana Inkster's "Welcome To Africville", 1999, GIV