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Image credit: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)
Serena is a mother’s mourning reflection on the birth and death of her 18-year-old Trans daughter. The video’s visuals document the emptying of an hourglass. The audio is a posthumous collaboration between Serena and her mother. A ten-year-old Serena provides the audio for the emptying of the hourglass with a vocal… ⊕
2025, 70:10 minutes, colour
tapecode 510.51
This experimental ambient film frames the city of Vancouver to become a source of graphical shapes. A symphony of images grouped in sections based on themes.
A seemingly endless parade of empty platitudes and paradoxical life affirmations trouble entitlement and question who determines and owns the American Dream. Original footage serves as visuals for a slightly redacted found-audio track from a 1960 film in the public domain called Your Name Here, produced by The Calvin Company,… ⊕
Inspired by slapstick comedy, Henricks explores the thin line between humour and violence. Quoting the films of Charlie Chaplin, Fassbinder, and Derek Jarman, the video features two dancers reinterpreting a series of short scenes. The work questions traditional masculinity and the power structures that exclude or harm… ⊕
A cat is presented with a sequence of everyday items to sniff.Single-channel videoEdition of 10Exhibition History:1999 Zsa Zsa Gallery (Toronto ON); 1999 Art Gallery of Hamilton -Photophobia Film Festival (Hamilton ON); 1999 Art Chicago 99 (Chicago IL); 1999 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (Halifax NS); 2000 Platform… ⊕