3. Numb
Director: Kristin Flattery, 2018 | 00h 04m 06s | VP | Canada
Numb, questions Kanata’s relationship with Indigenous peoples, allowing the viewer to contemplate the next 150 year relationship. Numb, regards the children who fled Residential School in freezing temperatures using the railway to guide them. Numb, also pays homage to my Dakota ancestors who were dispossessed of their land and forced to move in harsh temperatures to unfavorable or inhabitable areas lacking resources. Finally, it pays tribute to a young woman who was brutally assaulted and fled barefoot into the woods where she perished.
4. 8 Years Later
Director: James Dixon, 2017 | 00h 02m 37s | VP | Canada
An experimental documentary that abstracts the roads I travel on a daily basis. Tracking shots are layered on each other turning documented images into a disorientating visual memory. Real audio from the tracking shots, contrasts the layered images, disrupting the visual collage.
5. Letter to a Child Never Born
Director: Sahar Abarasteh, 2019 | 00h 02m 37s | VP | Canada
The surveillance video depicts the omnipresence of internalized social norms restricting the lives of many women living under the gaze of the rigid traditions. Domestic chores there, are to restress the lack of choice, in terms of the lifestyle selection, as well as the women’s work being undervalued.
Throughout the video, the camera catches me scrubbing and vacuuming the remainders of paper from the surface of my unfinished work, ‘letter to a child never born’; a hint to the incompleteness of the cultural transfer for immigrants, and to the voids that persist there, perhaps for ever