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The Indigenous Moving Image Mentorship Program Screening: Breaking the Lens
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This ensemble of contemporary stories reclaim and diversify what it means to be Indigenous on-screen. Pulling together themes of language, humour, and performance, these films push back against trauma narratives to explore Indigiqueer joy and radical embodiment.
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 IMIPM, mentee Billy Parrell curated this film program, “Breaking the Lens,” which will feature live performances by Jamie Whitecrow and Kay Chan before the screening.
Please note that the film The Rapture will not be available online.
Films
Hilarious small-town hijinks ensue as a young queer Aboriginal woman, Lilah, falls head over heels for an apparently indifferent new colleague and puts her desire to the test, sparking a chaotic, heartfelt race to ask her to the NAIDOC Ball.
A pair ceremoniously work together on hide-tanning between changing landscapes.
Funded by Te Māngai Pāho is Te KuraHuia’s latest single TOITŪ TE TIRITI. The Digital Hīkoi, a vision from future mokopuna back to past tīpuna, a lens to the hearts of indigenous peoples across the world back to Aotearoa NZ. TOITŪ TE TIRITI means MORE than Honouring a Contract, it means you’re willing to stand together with & for the people.
THE FIRST INDIGENOUS FEMALE PORNOGRAPHER is Audrey Little-breast, a native woman whose life and work defies categorization. During a candid interview, she unravels the mysterious settler desire and sexual appetite for “imaginary Indians” that guided her pornographic work in the 1970s, and contemplates its impact on Indigenous sexuality. This film blends and bends archival footage, pornography, and re-enactments, and invites us to ponder how deeply historical and contemporary settler-indigenous relations impact our sexuality.
Guided by snippets of found footage and foraged sentence examples from the Delaware-English dictionary, Nzaapŭléexiin maps the intertwined layers of self, spirit, and kinship through the lenses of language loss and language reclamation.
Moe Clark’s wîyâtikwêwin (joy) moves between song and spoken word to trace joy, grief, healing and Indigiqueer resurgence within Métis and 2Spirit communities. Through ceremony, language, and connection to land and ancestors, the piece honours 2Spirit Elders Barbara Bruce and Charlotte Nolin. Both chiefs of the first ever 2Spirit Sundance, they who hold valuable teachings and are making space for both emerging and future generations of 2Spirit relatives to come home. At the crossing of rivers where ancestral spaces awaken, communities gather to heal together and reclaim belonging.
“When the Rapture happens, you gotta go home”
With the Rapture just days away, two haututū (mischievous) cousins reunite to complete their Koro’s (grandfather’s) last wish, to return home. But are they ready?
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