Lorna Boschman
Born in Carrot River, Saskatchewan, Lorna Boschman has been a documentary and media artist since the 1980s. She was awarded the 2016 Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award in Film & New Media. In March 2011, she was a guest of Panorama of Quebec and Canadian Video, 29 FIFI Festival International Du Film Sur L’Art, in Montréal. Curated by Nicole Gingras, the program presented two retrospective evenings of media works directed by Lorna Boschman. Her productions have won two Golden Sheaf Awards at the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival.
In collaboration with Sebnem Ozpeta and Vancouver’s grunt gallery, Lorna has co-facilitated community digital storytelling workshops for almost a decade. They are featured on Digital Stories Canada [1]. Boschman and Ozpeta co-curated a program, Aftershock, from GIV’s collection as part of the Archive/Counter Archive Project, presented in Montréal in late 2024. They were also part of the group that conducted research from 1999-2023 on BC-based community digital storytelling practitioners.
Lorna’s most recent collaborations involve geo-location audio projects [2] with artists, gardeners (Cottonwood Community Garden [3]) and other locally community-led initiatives.
As a media artist, Lorna Boschman is best known for her collaborations with the 1990s lesbian art collective, Kiss & Tell (True Inversions and Drawing the Line), experimental docs such as Scars and Our Normal Childhood and her film Butch/Femme in Paradise. Kiss & Tell are the subject of a 2025 publication, Lesbian Art & Activism [4], from the Art Institute of Canada.
Since 2000, Boschman has directed several videos, including Before the New Millennium (2007) about the performances of Kiss & Tell, a Vancouver-based collective whose work examined lesbian sexuality and censorship. Lorna wrote and directed Queers, Christians and Canadian Justice for OUTtv in 2019 about Trinity Western University's attempt to establish a law school. Her most recent collaboration, How I Got My Queer Back, was co-written and co-directed with Rojina (RJ) Farrokhnejad and Aerlyn Weissman in 2025.
Additional Links:
1. https://digitalstories.ca/
2. https://digitalstories.ca/storycloud/
3. https://en.guidemate.com/guide/Cottonwood-Community-Garden-66e8478860569056e18d244b
4. https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/kiss-tell/
Artist Code: 098
Videography
2025, 15:09 minutes, colour, English (English subtitles available)
2007, 26:56 minutes, colour, English
2004, 27:24 minutes, colour, English w Fr. sub
2003, 13:00 minutes, Colour, English
1999, 14:00 minutes, colour, English
Dr. Lorna's Seven Day Poodle Diet
1998, 53:00 minutes, colour, English
1996, 23:00 minutes, colour, English
1995, 45:00 minutes, colour, English
1994, 25:00 minutes, colour, English
1993, 15:00 minutes, colour
1992, 24:00 minutes, colour
1992, 07:30 minutes, B&W, English
1991, 27:00 minutes, colour, English
1990, 06:00 minutes, colour
1988, 11:25 minutes, colour, English
1988, 05:00 minutes, colour
1987, 11:37 minutes, colour, English
Critical Writing
by . Calgary: EMMEDIA, 2011.
by . "(Mary, Mary) Are these the hands that cut?", 2006. Toronto: Pleasure Dome, 2006.
by . Minneapolis: Walker Art Centre, 2000.
by . Montréal: articule, 1996.
by . Toronto: YYZ Books, 1996.
by . Parallelogramme, 1994, v. 20, no. 3.
by . Cinematheque Film Programme Guide, Fall 1994. Toronto: Cinematheque Ontario, 1994.
by and . Montréal: Cinéma Libre, 1994.
by . Now, Apr. 23, 1992, v. 11, no. 34.
by . EYE WEEKLY, Apr. 23, 1992, no. 98.
by . Guelph: Ed Video Media Arts Centre, 1991.
by . Fuse, Fall 1989, v. 13, no. 1 & 2.
by and . Cinema Canada, 1988, no. 155.
by . Cinema Canada, Sept. 1988, no. 155.
by . San Francisco Sentinel, June 17, 1988, v. 16, no. 25.