Saturday 5pm | OCT. 23 DANCING QUEENZ!
Saturday 7pm | OCT. 23 INTERACTIVE EVENT: INUIT KNOWLEDGE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Al Green Theatre
Al Green Theatre
James Diamond (Cree/Métis) is a video artist and painter living in Vancouver, B.C. His previous work, Mars-Womb-Man, won Best Experimental work at imagineNATIVE in 2006.
Nohopuku
Director: Louise Potiki Bryant New Zealand · 8.5 min · 2010 · Digital Beta North American Premiere
Dance to Miss Chief
Burnt
Director: Alejandro Valbuena Canada/Colombia/USA · 14 min · 2009 · Beta SP Director Alejandro Valbuena interprets childhood memory to create an electric romance between two young men. Forbidden love has never looked this good! Born in Bogota, Alejandro Valbuena (Kogi) is a producer, writer and director. As a 1st Assistant Director, he’s worked on numerous television productions and feature films. He is a graduate of the University of Victoria’s Creative Writing Program and his work has been featured in The Walrus magazine. Burnt was awarded Best Short Film at Video Danza, Bogota in 2008.
Seven Seconds
Director: Michael Greyeyes Canada · 12:51 min · 2010 · Beta SP World Premiere Set against the backdrop of a concrete jungle, one woman’s impassioned dance poses the question: What is the imprint of our existence? Michael Greyeyes is a director, actor, choreographer and educator. He has directed and choreographed the first Cree opera, Pimooteewin (The Journey), and Daniel David Moses’ Almighty Voice and his Wife for Native Earth Performing Arts, which was subsequently performed at the inaugural Origins Festival of First Nations Theatre in London, UK. He is an Associate Professor in the Theatre department at York University. Seven Seconds was created through the 2010 imagineNATIVE & LIFT Mentorship Program.
I am the art scene starring Woman Polanski Director: James Diamond Canada · 3 min · 2010 · Beta SP World Premiere Filmmaker James Diamond provocatively examines trans identity and manifestations of identity politics in what he describes as the “lowest of the low quality, high-art private service announcement.”
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Based on a live dance performance, Louise Potiki Bryant creates physical poetry in a unique expression of time and space. Louise Potiki Bryant (Maori) has been widely praised for her work as a choreographer with the Atamira Dance Collective. As an interdisciplinary artist, Louise also designs installations, video projections and set pieces for her works. Nohopuku was conceived through a choreographic internship with Santee Smith (Mohawk), artistic director of Kaha:wi Dance Theatre.
The Heist
Producer: Leena Minifie Canada · 7.5 min · 2010 · Digital Beta Toronto Premiere Choreographed in the vogueing and waacking dance style that evolved out of New York’s underground gay club scene in the 1970s, The Heist is a svelte and sassy cat burglar hunt for the ultimate treasure…..a diamond studded shoe. Leena Minifie is a film/video artist who is a member of the Gitzaala Nation and of Tsimishin, British and Austrian descent. Leena currently resides in Vancouver as a video artist and freelance producer for film and television. She has produced the video installations Connected by Innate Rhythym and Reclaimed Footage, an interactive dance piece for New Forms Festival 2004.
Dance to Miss Chief
Director: Kent Monkman Canada · 5 min · 2010 · Beta SP German with English subtitles World Premiere All glamour and sparkle-dust, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle returns in spectacular fashion for a stiletto-dance track celebration. Watch out Lady Gaga, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle is in da howz! Kent Monkman (Cree) works with a variety of mediums, including painting and film/video and performance. His award-winning short film and video works, A Nation is Coming and Blood River, have been screened at various national and international festivals.
This screening of Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change will be streamed simultaneously on ISUMA TV for Indigenous viewers around the world. Following the screening, directors Zacharias Kunuk and Ian Mauro will participate in a live, virtual Q&A with Indigenous viewers and our theatre audience via Skype.
Inuit High Kick
Director: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril Canada · 3 min · 2009 · Digital Beta An ancient test of athleticism and skill is dramatically and sensuously portrayed. Based in Iqaluit, Nunavut, filmmaker Althethea ArnaquqBaril (Inuk) previously co-produced the documentary feature Experimental Eskimos. Currently in development on new projects, she is also a board member of the Ajjiit Nunavut Media Producers’ Association.
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change Co-Director: Zacharias Kunuk Canada · 60 min · 2010 · Digital Beta Inuktitut with English subtitles World Premiere The impact of climate change in Canada is discussed by those at its front lines. In this historic documentary by the legendary Isuma Productions, Inuit people speak first-hand about how their landscape is changing, how the sky has turned colour and if the polar bear really is endangered. Their insight – borne from centuries of shared knowledge – reveals a deep intimacy with their environment and convincingly challenges mainstream media accounts of climate change. Unsettling accounts of new flora, thawing permafrost and dwindling ice point directly to the truth that climate change has become a human rights issue for many Indigenous people. Zacharias Kunuk (Inuk) is a renowned filmmaker whose dramatic feature films include Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner), which won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes in 2001, and The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, co-directed with Norman Cohn, which opened the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. Kunuk is the winner of a National Arts Award, National Aboriginal Achievement Award and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2005.
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