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FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 11:30 PM
News From the Future
Christpher Healey, Yukon, 3m, experimental
Concerned with the idea of the Anthropocene as
not only a physical environmental manifestation
but a psychosomatic post-reality, this work is
framed as a news transmission from the future with
an ambiguous message. Is this communication
from a Dystopian or Utopian future? Or is it fake
news from the present—or maybe a malfunction?
Warning: strobe effects
Spinosaurus
Tessa Hoffe, Norway, 14m, drama
Dinosaurs and denial...
Sweet Night
Jessie Short, 7m, MB, drama
Andy is a young Métis woman living in a big city.
When a friend invites Andy to accompany her to a
large city park where she introduces Andy to sweet
grass, it sparks a night of interpersonal exploration
and self-discovery, ultimately reconnecting Andy
with her Indigenous roots.
There Lived the Colliers
Nelson MacDonald, NS, 7m, experimental
Between 1850 and 1920 thousands of wooden
duplexs were built in Nova Scotia by coal
companies to house the influx of workers from
Europe and the Caribbean. Today, decades after
the last coal mine closed, the houses remain. This
short experimental documentary shot on 16mm
relies on images of the simple homes to suggest
the personality, resilience, hardship and history of
the working-class people who have inhabited this
place for the last 150 years.
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