Six powerful Native women, depicted in luxurious closeups, share an extravagant feast. Together, they celebrate a new beginning and the end of the world as we know it.

Creatura Dada

A woman raises her voice to deliver a painful, endless speech that becomes increasingly overwhelming as time goes on. Her words are heartbreaking and permanent impressions in the collective memory, words that stab at an old Mexican celluloid print that tears and disappears.

Impressions For a Sound and Light Machine (Impresiones para una máquina de luz y sonido)

The scales of the snake refract and bend, commanding a trance-like attention. At the film’s epicentre, the pyramids join Itzcóatl’s battle while the Obsidian Serpent cultivates the emphatic call that all dances must move against the war.

Itzcóatl

Not a sex video, but maybe a sexy video? About a latent gas mask fetish, but maybe actually about a certain art world tear gas controversy the filmmaker was involved in? But also about Chemical Valley in Southern Ontario? A pretty film, about weird shit.

Less Lethal Fetishes

Considered a staple of Florida tourism, alligator wrestling has been performed by members of the Seminole Tribe for over a century. Halpate profiles the hazards and history of the spectacle through the words of the tribe’s alligator wrestlers themselves, and reflects on what it has meant to their people’s survival.

Halpate

Invited to speak at an Indigenous Revolutionary Meeting, the narrator describes an intimate encounter with an Evil Colonizing Queen that leads to Turtle Island’s contraction of an invasive European flora.

Just Dandy

The word gephyrophobia means “fear of bridges.” An ominous soundtrack accompanies 16mm monochrome shots depicting the dépanneurs, byways and bridges of Ottawa/Gatineau—cities for whom the shared river and its crossings are ever-present motifs of intractable cultural contradictions. -EM

Gephyrophobia

Guided by those who live on the land and driven by the pulse of the natural world, this film reframes archival NFB footage to carry us from the far north to the urban south. Over these landscapes, Monnet captures the perpetual negotiation between the traditional and the modern by a people moving ever forward.

Mobilize

Based on his ever-changing performance Indian Tails, this film features Luna sitting alone in his darkened room in front of the TV on Christmas Eve. As he sits, he calls friends, family and ex-lovers, excusing himself from all of their celebrations.

The History of the Luiseño People

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