This epic, cinematic journey was across massive screens sitting side by side, displaying Evelyn Mikayla Martin’s dream world filled with Indigenous women, defiant and thriving. Going deeper into the thesis of her ‘NDN Girlhood’ Installation, Martin uses the film to display a visual representation of her conquering oppressive obstacles, exerting a triumphant indigenous futurism wherein she re-imagines a better reality for Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people to exist in.

I think I saw you in a dream explores the intimate relationship between the physical and dream-state realms through the imagined life of beadwork. Moving without the presence of hands, the beads take on a life of their own, shifting between material and imagined worlds. The absence of the artist’s hands creates space for the unseen processes of intuition, memory, and imagination that precede a pattern. The film interogates the elusive space where inspiration begins, and imagines where an image comes from before it becomes something we can hold.

nipâkwêsimowin pahpimohtet ( Walking with the Sundance) is a directorial debut for trio Ambrose Cardinal, Akira Iahtail (Nehiyaw and Métis)  and Daniel Placeres Lee (latinx/latino). nipâkwêsimowin pahpimohtek, is an experimental blend of documentary style interview and animation, capturing the process of friends, lovers and community coming together for ceremony. The film documents the transformative process of going through the four day ceremony of Sundance, without crossing the bounds of protocols and customs regarding filming the sacredness held within the ceremony. This film also highlights the importance of sharing ceremonies and creating space for non-Indigenous people to support Indigenous people in ceremony, in a humble, kind and gentle way.