Film Format: Digital File

  • All Us Choir Boys

    Peter has not left his apartment in two years and spends most of his time in video chat rooms. He fears that Dylan, an online hookup, has met a violent end. Day after day he hunts for the file of their last video chat so he can send it to the police. Vernon, a love interest from Peter’s former choir, wants him to get over his obsession and attend Vernon’s solo choir debut. Meanwhile, Peter’s therapist encourages him to explore past trauma rather than online fantasy. When Peter finds the file, he is shocked to his core. Now he must…

  • remnanthood

    A 16mm film that investigates the history and the scenery within the geographical boundaries of Regent Park

  • collapse

    a demonstration of falling techniques on super 8 colour stock

  • séance

    In this piece, I attempted to switch between the persona of a settler woman and myself speaking on postcolonialism. I do this by taking my costume on and off. “Occupying the bodies of notable female figures from Peterborough’s history, Calla Durose Moya stages a conversation with the past in order to come to terms with her identity in the present. With volunteer and employment experience in local heritage institutions, Durose Moya has observed first-hand the limits imposed by the colonial lens with regard to a routinely prejudiced and biased version of history. Appropriating the images of settler women for her…

  • blonde asian

    I found a post online about blonde Asian bimbos, and this video is me reading the post aloud in my bedroom. This is a commentary of me being or not being self-aware of my gendered and sexualized identity in the digital age, and an attempt at the de-sexualization of my body by performing the very performative found script.

  • Face à ma fenêtre

    An expressionistic exploration of agoraphobia and isolation. A young woman stares outside her window, summoning the courage to step outside.

  • kauaʻi ʻōʻō

    Hawaii 1987, the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō sings its final serenade.

  • Don’t Forget The Water

    A phone conversation sets the diasporic table as a disembodied figure prepares Qahwah Arabi / Arabic Coffee. Here, the contradictions inherent in Google Translate’s instant camera feature are made visible through glitched mistranslations. Using these flaws as a prompt, the communication between a mother and a daughter considers ambiguity as a source of embodied knowledge. 

  • Kajanaqtuq

    Kajanaqtuq (2020) is a short experimental film that features the voice of Inuk Elder Naulaq LeDrew. She speaks about her home in Nunavut, Canada and how Inuit lifestyles have changed since her youth. Altered Super 8mm film footage of the region illustrates her account of historical events and Inuit mythology. 

  • How amazingly unlikely is your birth

    What could a cosmology of one person’s life look like? A daughter examines the life and premature death of her father, who had a troubled relationship with the psychiatric medical establishment and was passionate about ecology, politics and space travel.