2019 Dawson City International Short Film Festival Program DCISFF_2019_program_web | Page 24
saturday, April 20, 7 pm
Blanket’s Ode to Woman
Lulu Keating, Yukon, Animation, 2m
Blanket’s undying devotion to Woman’s comfort is
sabotaged by an unseen foe.
Heartburn
Franie-Éléonore Bernier, QC, Narrative, 11m
Ghislain is shocked to find his heart beating by his coccyx.
He seeks the help of his brother, who concludes he must
learn to laugh again.
Power Grid
Clara Bodén, Sweden, Documentary, 5m
A boy is standing near a power station in the inlands of
Norrland, Sweden, by a waterfall that no longer exists.
The Power Grid is a personal film about growing up
surrounded by rich natural resources; about power
production, colonialism, and an awareness that grows from
seeing, seeing again and questioning what surrounds you.
Homecoming Song
Daniel Janke, Yukon, Documentary, 21m
This poetic documentary tells the parallel stories of two
men who came home. Many years ago Kaax’achgook of
the Kiks.adi clan of Southeast Alaska disappeared at sea,
and was thought lost by his family and people. Three years
later he returned with a song telling of his experiences.
When Pete Sidney came back after being away for six years
fighting in the second world war, his mother Angela Sidney
sang this ancient song for him.
Conversations with a
Landscape
Kathleen Hearn, ON, Experimental, 2m
Playing with the idea of miming the northern lights,
Conversation with a Landscape, records a hermetic like
dialogue between a single male and his surroundings.
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