Tag: Indigenous filmmaker

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WNDX Film Festival

My film Nikâwiy (mother) was selected for a WNDX retrospective program. A personal favourite, I’m so grateful that it was able to be screened at this film fest again!

From the program:

Prairie Retrospective 1: Something is Calling You

…For the WNDX Festival of Moving Image’s 20th anniversary, this program celebrates work by Indigenous filmmakers from the prairies that have screened at some point over the festival’s past twenty years. These films call to us from not so very long ago to revisit what has passed but also to imagine what lies beyond into the future of Indigenous filmmaking.

– Jenny Western

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Film Shoot

So grateful for this weekend and the team I got to work with, flexing my skills as the director. We spent a full day working together, filming and setting up throughout downtown Winnipeg, capturing some great moments and finding our groove as a film crew. We finished on schedule and we are stoked to see this project come to life.

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New Work

Newlight ~ 2023

Preview of new work: Decolonizing the analog medium through a digital space: Not by narrative or subject, but through reconstruction.

Yellow, cyan and magenta wash over the digital flow to create the idea of a film negative, windows become the perforations, and the vertical movement indicates film threaded through the light of a projector. Low hum vibrations echo the sounds of the mechanical device.

Inspired by Stan Brakhage “Mothlight” with the idea of grief as motivation, and giving life through new processes.

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Work In Progress

New work taking shape, footage and audio I recently shot in Carberry, Mb. Finding a balance between atmosphere and visuals by remixing audio and layering noise over the footage. My goal is to emphasize the tension through the framing and sound design, building the audio as the character moves into the woods.

Shot with Canon EOS R, utilizing a DJI Ronin Stabilizer.

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Portraits

Taking a different approach to portraits, creating something a bit atmospheric through the audio with some dynamic black and white static shots. This one was my Dad. Glad to work with him and get out into the woods to shoot some really fun footage.

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Darkroom

“The shutter is clicked… the flash goes off… and they’ve stopped time… if just for the blink of an eye.” – One Hour Photo (2002)

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The Bridge

“No tears please, it’s a waste of good suffering” – Hellraiser (1987)