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The Indigenous Moving Image Mentorship Program Screening: Iqqaumajut – They Remember
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“How do we define what is sacred in this life? Is remembrance sacred? Do we locate our remembering in our minds, in our bodies, in specific sites on the land?
Shot at home and in community, this program is a collection of works through the eyes of 2-Spirit and Indigequeer filmmakers. They touch on remembrance in many ways: who they are, their cultures, families, communities, the land and land stewardship, water – and even in the act of forgetting.
This screening was developed within the Indigenous Moving Image Mentorship Program (IMIMP), presented in partnership with the Indigenous Curatorial Collective (ICCA), which creates a space for emerging 2SLGBTQ+ Indigenous programmers to develop a touring short film program alongside experienced mentors.
Through the program, mentee Isaac Partridge curated this film program, “Iqqaumajut – They Remember,” which will feature a Q&A at the end.
Films
Life can get overwhelming and sometimes it’s best to revert back to basics. “(5)senses” is an experimental short that invites viewers to breathe – sit in the scenary, immerse themselves in the enveloping soundscape – and take a much needed pause.
Inspired by the story of Nuliajuk, the sea goddess. In this magical world, Nuliajuk raises one of her children to one day take over as goddess but Uvilluq challenges her mother’s authority and visits the human world.
Akinasi Silaapik Partridge, a 2-Spirit Inuk Mohawk artist, contemplates on her connection to the Arctic as an urban Inuk in the face of climate change.
He Taonga Te Wareware(A Treasure to Forget) is a short film set to Till by The Hi-Marks, exploring a Māori understanding of dementia through the relationship between a son and his ageing mother. Guided by the annual return of Matariki, the film embraces He Taonga Te Wareware—the wisdom that forgetting and remembering are both sacred acts. As memories ebb and return, so too does the reciprocal nature of care, revealing love, whakapapa, and time as cyclical rather than linear.
Reflections and experiences of various Queer Indigenous people, filmed in Kahnawake and in partnership with Maoriland Film Festival.
A crew of Pasifika and First Nations people find each other in a world of colonial urbanity and embark on a musical journey in which they rediscover their power, reclaim what has been stolen from them, and carry forth the fire of liberation. A visual companion to the EP of the same name by the Pasifika-First Nations musical collective FAMILI.
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