to boyhood, i never knew him is a short experimental film featuring a distorted poem and archive footage from 2006 - 2010. Words from a transgender man float to the surface of the screen as the blurry memories play, displaying how only fragments of what is remembered exists. The piece is a love letter to the filmmaker’s… ⊕

In the form of a visual & written poetic letter, Hoa is dedicated to my bà nội, from me, a Vietnamese grandchild. In Vietnamese, “hoa” means flower. It also is the first name of the filmmaker's bà nội (paternal grandmother). Before developing her memory disorders, the director's… ⊕

Khobs & Chai is an audio-visual conversation that revisits my childhood memories of baking Middle-Eastern bread with my grandmother. When I was younger, she often shared stories of living through the fall of the monarchy in Iraq, the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf war. Despite experiencing difficult and horrifying events, my… ⊕

Visions of Basra explores some of my mother’s fragmented memories of her home by conjuring up photographs, colours and her words. Throughout the film, the moving visuals appear imperfect or out of focus depicting the distance between where she grew up versus where she lives now. ذكریات… ⊕

"HOMe is a four minute experimental video connecting the homoerotic with the land. Burton explores gay identity, Indigeneity, and rural living through images taken on his ancestral territory of God’s Lake Narrows, Manitoba. In the work, he is situated both at home on his living room couch, and outdoors on reserve.… ⊕