2018 Dawson City International Short Film Festival Program DCISFF_2018_PROGRAM_web | Page 34

SUNDAY, APRIL1, 7:30 PM
Emergency Broadcast
Pixie Cram, ON, 7m, animation
Built at the height of the cold war to withstand a
five-megaton nuclear assault, the Deifenbunker
is a massive underground four-story 100,000
square foot fortress deigned and constructed
entirely in secrecy in 1959. Employing the objects
and spaces of this Canadian historic site, the film
depicts the beginnings of a nuclear war.
Nuuca
Michelle Latimer, ON, 12m documentary
The oil boom in North Dakota has brought
thousands of new people to the region and with
them an influx of drugs, crime and sex trafficking.
This beautiful work is an evocative meditation on
Indigenous women’s integral connection to land
and the ways in which the extractive industry’s
rape of the Earth is directly linked to the violence
perpetrated against Indigenous women and girls.
Living Here
Sarah Baril Gaudet, 17m, QC, documentary
Living Here is a story made of solitude and wind,
told with the poetry of Nunavik’s stark tundra and
the beauty of young Martha’s words.
Tesla World Light
Matthew Rankin, QC, 8m, experimental
New York, 1905. Visionary inventor Nikola
Tesla makes one last appeal to J.P. Morgan, his
onetime benefactor. Inspired by real events, this
electrifying short is a spectacular burst of image
and sound that draws as much from the tradition
of avant-garde cinema as it does from animated
documentary.
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