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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
"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.… ⊕
1984, 89:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 2162.02
Themes of women, gender diversity, sex work, sex workers, street prostitution. The film was shot at the height of the Davie Street red-light stroll in Vancouver, known at the time as the prostitution capitol of Canada. Hookers on Davie is the only documentation of Davie Street before a court injunction eliminated sex workers… ⊕
2017, 03:30 minutes, Black & White
tapecode 903.15
In this non-narrative short film, shot on 16mm and voiced entirely in questions from a young girl, the filmmaker weds footage of her daughters playing in an abandoned quarry with the inexhaustible curiosity of a child. The youngest daughter’s questions address a vast range of knowledge, moving, as she and her sister… ⊕
A love story. A liberation story. A story of queer resistance and how building community can transform us. Explore the ephemeral legacy of Vancouver’s historic Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium. Before the internet, we relied on printed materials and a central gathering place. How do we create a deep personal… ⊕
This work utilizes text, which I had been playing with since 1996. The text is a stream of consciousness type list of things that “I really should” do, such as “pay back my student loan,” “drink more water,” “take more chances,” “clean out the litter box,” etc…… ⊕