Outdoor Screening Series

September 30, 12:00 pm – October 3, 11:59 pm
Courtesy of Canadian Film Makers Distribution Center
SURVIVANCE

Anishinaabe writer and activist Gerald Vizenor first deployed the term survivance in his 1999 book “Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance.” In many ways, the concept of survivance as the “active sense of presence, the continuance of native stories [alongside consistent] renunciations of dominance, tragedy and victimry” remains more relevant than ever.

With Indigenous communities enduring yet another generational health crisis, the old tools of survivance and resistance must be picked up. In order to tell the story of the present moment and speak to the coming generations, Indigenous storytellers and knowledge keepers must use their gifts to communicate. The existence of these films is a testament to contemporary Indigenous survivance on screen. Watch and listen as Indigenous artists from all over so-called North America deploy their voices through the medium of film and video.

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2020 Partners:

June 27, 6:00 pm – June 30, 6:00 pm
imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival
THE FUTURE Program

Hamilton Artists Inc. is pleased to present the shorts program, The Future in partnership with imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. The Future features short-format experimental films by Daniel Fortin, Trevor Gould, Taran Kootenhayoo, Chris Grant, Bretten Hannam, Rebecca Thomassie and Conor McNally. imagineNATIVE’s Festival, Tour, and year-round initiatives showcase, promote, and celebrate Canadian and international Indigenous filmmakers and media artists and create a greater understanding of Indigenous peoples, cultures, and artistic expressions.

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September 23, 7:00 pm-September 26, 7:00 pm
SACHA
Imagining BIPOC Futurisms

Imagining BIPOC Futurisms features short-format experimental films by Thirza Cuthand, Rah, Danielle Peers and Alice Sheppard. All three films will be available for flexible online viewing for 72 hours, starting at 7:00 pm on  September 23 until 7:00 pm on September 26. The link to watch the films will be released at the start of the event. Watch the films in your own time. In partnership with SACHA, Imagining BIPOC Futurisms shorts program is hosted as part of Hamilton Artists Inc.’s ongoing Screening Series, presented every summer between June and September.

SACHA is a fem­i­nist, non-prof­it, com­mu­ni­ty-based orga­ni­za­tion that pro­vides sup­ports to peo­ple who have expe­ri­enced sex­u­al­ized vio­lence at any point in their lives. They work to end vio­lence and oppres­sion through edu­ca­tion, advo­ca­cy, out­reach, coali­tion build­ing, com­mu­ni­ty part­ner­ships, and activism.

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June 17, 9:30 pm
imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival
Femme Totale Program

Hamilton Artists Inc. is pleased to present the shorts program, Femme Totale in partnership with imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. The female voice and perspective in Indigenous cinema remains a strong, vital, and influential force. From both sides of the Medicine Line – the Canadian-American border – outstanding new talents explore an array of topics that plunge into the core of humanity, addressing an expansive discourse around issues from resurgence, deep cultural ties and traditions, to sisterhood and loss.

July 20, 9:00 pm
South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC)
Monitor 12: Figures Pointing Outside the Frame Program

Curated by Oliver Husain, Otty Widasari, Yuki Aditya

Hamilton Artists Inc. is pleased to present the shorts program, MONITOR 12: Figures Pointing Outside the Frame in partnership with SAVAC. The works that make up the Figures Pointing Outside the Frame consider the peripheries of the image as significant as the content within. Whether film, video, or a still image, the technology dictates the parameters of the frame. Decisions an image-maker makes regarding the composition, duration, performance, and location further contribute to a viewer’s experience. Collaboration is formed between the technology, image maker, and subjects- though this collaboration is often expanded with elements, situations, and conditions beyond that which is scripted. In this way, the program advocates for the viewer to consider the environmental, labour, historical, economical, gendered, and social conditions that influence the constructed experience.

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2016 Partners:

September 30, 9:00 pm
imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival
Canadian Indigenous Shorts Program

Hamilton Artists Inc. is pleased to present the shorts program, Canadian Indigenous Shorts in partnership with imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. Canadian Indigenous Shorts feature the work of  Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Lisa Jackson, Danis Goulet, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Alejandro Valbuena, Kate Kroll, Lisa Jackson,  and Jeff Barnaby.  The shorts program highlights Indigenous filmmakers and media artists helping to create a broader understanding of Indigenous people,and cultures through film.

July 19, 9:00 pm
Life of a Craphead: Bugs
Zak Tatham: Doorcuts

Hamilton Artists Inc. is please to present Life of a Craphead’s Bugs; and Zak Tatham’s Doorcuts in part of their summer Outdoor Screening Series. Bugs, written and directed by Life of a Craphead (Amy Lam & Jon Mccurley), is a satire about a bug society and its most powerful family. Bugs presents the absurdity of life within a patriarchal society obsessed with success. The DIY film sets the Bug universe right in the middle of the real world, creating multiple layers of reality that interact with each other. Zak Tatham’s Doorcuts follows a traveler as she leaves her home though a door, she enters a door which enters a door, taking as many Doorcuts as possible. It may be transparent to access doors that fold space, linking alternate universes, but as the short-cuts are exploited hospitality closes an octo-edge door.

The Inc.’s Outdoor Screening Series is made possible through funding support from the Incite Foundation for the Arts, Hamilton Community Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts and Mohawk College