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(Image credit: Vibrations from Gaza, by Rehab Nazzal, 2024)
2024, 05:20 minutes, colour
tapecode 320.10
Canada forcibly incarcerated and dispossessed thousands of Canadian citizens of Japanese heritage, relocating them to internment camps, or in the case of the Kobayashi family, a sugar beet work farm in the Canadian Prairies. After accessing the 119 page custodial file of her great-grandfather in the National Archives of Canada,… ⊕
Hamilton’s My Lady is a video installation that draws from comedian and famous Hamiltonian Martin Short’s 2012 comedy special I, Martin Short, Goes Home. The video follows the beloved persona Kiki as she combines autobiography, cultural critique, and comedy to take audiences into the often mocked and stereotyped… ⊕
2020, 07:09 minutes
tapecode 2183.02
When I'm turned on, there's always that red light lit. When my body is on record. How can self-risk-taking be put to work in relation to aesthetic self-creation?HIV and AIDS are not over.
This film is a study of Western-style pre-wedding photography near Tokyo Station. Every night, several couples take turns striking similar poses near the front of Tokyo Station on Gyoko-dori Street. Pre-wedding photo shoots have been popular on social media for about the last five years. The photo packages often include the… ⊕
2023, 03:39 minutes, Y
tapecode 066.27
An ironic, top-down summary of the language used in real estate superimposed on a Canadian neighbourhood.