A father and daughter make a new movie after the daughter requests to make a film with sound, having made a silent one the previous year.

As the only First Nations student at an all-white 1940s school, eight-year-old Wato is aware of the hostility of her classmates. She misses the loving environment of the reservation she once called home. Her dreams of befriending animals offer the young girl comfort against the discrimination she has to endure. The spiritual encounter with the animals gives her strength to heal broken bonds with her community, reminding her of where she really belongs.

An adaptation of part of Bernadette Mayer’s book Utopia, in which the non-binary poet depicts a utopia in the form of everyday life in the here and now, like a child’s game. Leisure, Utopic is the translation of chapter 4, about the arrangement of houses and buildings, birth, death, money, schools, dentists, birth control, work, air, remedies, etc.

A young child reads Mayer’s utopian programme in the form of an inventory, in an updated version so that contemporary patterns are revealed: “There is no Instagram, twitter is what birds do…”

The Philippines is the world’s fourth-largest exporter of labour. One in eight Filipinos are overseas workers. Every year, awards are handed out among them to ‘recognise the most outstanding Filipino workers and their families for their exceptional achievements’. In the video The Model Family Award, Lizza May David captures the award ceremony to create awareness about this socio-political situation, as this commodification and exportation of human labour disrupts families. Besides criticising the contest and its organiser, the artist is also interested in exploring the often ambiguously suggestive power of the visual image and the media. Where is the line between reality and imagination? Between documentation and fiction?

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Between 1966 and 1976, thousands of Greenlandic girls and women were subjected to IUD insertion without their informed consent. These procedures were carried out under the guise of routine medical school examinations and were part of a secret population control programme orchestrated by the Danish authorities. This short investigative film reveals the overall mechanisms of a system that used contraception as a weapon against minority women.

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Placeholder is an attempt to keep it together in the face of absence: of a mother, of a memory, of something tangible. Hands holding rocks, hands gripping other hands. Images oscillate between dreams and recollection, distorted and transformed over time.

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