Bio

Alexus has been a videomaker since 2005, when she began working on projects with professional mentors at Crossing Communities Art Project in Winnipeg. She is two-spirited, hails from Swan River, Manitoba and recently moved from Winnipeg to Toronto.  Her work has been screened nationally and internationally at ImagiNative, Inside Out LGBT Film Festival and Bildwechsel (Hamburg, Germany) to name but a few.

Works

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.

Where We Were Not; Feeling Reserved, Alexus' Story

  • 2011
  • Jess MacCormack, Alexus Young

An experimental animated documentary about criminalization in Canada. Having worked for the past five years on art projects with marginalized and criminalized women. I wanted to find ways to build on these relationships, while offering an opportunity for sharing their often poignant stories and insights.

Where We Were Not; Feeling Reserved, Alexus' Story