REframed NDN Animation Shorts Program

Canada
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35 mins
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A program of Animated shorts from Canada curated by Terril Calder. One of the foremost Métis media artists practicing in Canada today, Terril is a multi-disciplinary creator born in Fort Frances, Ontario, and currently living in Toronto. Calder’s Métis lineage is from the Red River Settlement and the Orkney Cree Métis. While her current practice is focused on stop-motion projects, which she writes, directs, crafts and animates, Calder also has an extensive background in performance art, visual art and media art.

A Boy and His Loss

Canada
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2022
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7 mins

A Boy and his Loss is the story of a boy who was so utterly consumed by grief, that he almost ran out of life.

Director
Michelle Derosier (Migisi Sahgaigan)

Collector

Canada
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2019
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1 mins

A pair of unlikely travellers encounter a young man on the highway who seems to have forgotten that he can be seen.

Director
Kassia Ward (Enoch Cree)

Grape Soda in the Parking Lot

Canada
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2022
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8 mins

What if every language that had been lost to English -- every word, every syllable -- grew up out of the ground in flowers? Taqralik Partridge’s grandmother’s Scottish Gaelic and her father’s Inuktitut unfold in memories of her family, of pain, and of love.

Directors
Megan Kyak Monteith (Inuk)Taqralik Partridge (Inuk)

Heart Like a Pow Wow

Canada
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2023
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5 mins

Heart Like A Pow Wow explores the depths of grief from an Anishinaabe perspective of love and family. Viewers are called to witness Spirit as they shift to physical form while embodying the love that precedes grief and inevitably foreshadows it.

Director
Chief Lady Bird (Chippewa & Potawatomi)

Premonition

Canada
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2021
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4 mins

Premonition acknowledges the major shifts that happened when European traders and settlers began to come into the territory.

Director
Barry Bilinsky (Cree & Metis)

The Fake Calendar

Canada
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2019
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1 mins

A neon glimpse into a personal world within an urban landscape. From FOMO to JOMO, The Fake Calendar is an artist’s expression of how people come up with interesting and creative ways to avoid social functions in favour of their own private space.

Director
Meky Ottawa (Atikamekw)

The Weight

Canada
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2014
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4 mins

In a personal reflection, Craig Commanda talks to us about the effects of depression on his life and the journey to get out of it.

Director
Craig Commanda (Algonquin Nation)

Wâhkôhtowin (All My Relations)

Canada
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2021
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5 mins

The power of stories, told over many nights, over many years, through all the languages across the world, are encapsulated in an intimate story between a grandmother and her children’s children on a clear winter night in the teepee.

Director
Barry Bilinsky (Cree & Metis)

XO RAD Magical

Canada
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2019
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1 mins

XO Rad Magical is a personal lyrical poem about the daily struggle of living with schizophrenia. This psychedelic and hypnotic film shows that there is beauty in the brains of those who are at war with themselves.

Director
Christopher Gilbert Grant (Mi’kmaq)