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July 20 & 21 Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto I am pleased to present “You say rice. I say gohan” collaboration with Iori Matsushima this Sunday, July 21 as part of  the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) Film Festival. Iori and I will be in attendance. Tickets can be purchased here.    

Wednesday April 10, 6:30 pm Sign up here As the DECADE exhibition continues, Koffler Arts features a Gallery Talk with artists Barbara Astman and one of her former students, Midi Onodera. The two work in different media and styles, with Astman’s use of wide-ranging media and Onodera’s focus on video. After the two speak about their […]

DECADE opens on February 22nd and runs until May 12th. Ruth Adler / Barbara Astman / Shabnam K. Ghazi / Vid Ingelevics/Gillian Iles / Carolyn Murphy / Midi Onodera / Matthew Schofield Curated by David Liss In a building designed by architect C. H. Bishop, the Shaw Street Public School opened in 1914 and was […]

Saturday, February 3, 2024, 9:30 pm, The Screening Room 120 Princess St. Kingston Ontario. Hard to believe that its’ been almost 30 years ago that I made Skin Deep. It was certainly a different time. I am pleased the film is having a new screening at the ReelOut Queer Film + Video Festival in Kingston […]

Tuesday, November 21, 2023, 2:00 am to  Wednesday, December 6, 2023 12:30 am  Online at Collaborative Cataloguing Japan  Curated by independent programmer, Mia Parnall, this selection of work features “I have no memory of my direction” with Japanese subtitles along with 3 short films, Ville Quelle Ville? (1984), Nobody Knows (2002) with Japanese subtitles and Slightseer […]

7:00 pm – 9:30 pm | Wednesday October 25, 2023 Interspace | Ace Hotel Toronto 51 Camden St Free Admission Along with filmmakers are Joanna Decc and Agnès Hayden, I will be showing The Dead Zone and chatting about the work. The Ace Hotel series, “Shorts In Conversation,” makes a moment for cinema and dialogue. We […]

Archivist and queer historian Elizabeth Purchell is curating Queer Cinema: Lost & Found, an ongoing series at Austin Film Society, exploring “the history of queer cinema and its many ground-breaking pioneers in this refreshing behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of queer representation on screen.” The film will be screened with Annette Kennerley’s Boys In The […]

  The Elastic Spaces SSHRC Connection funded project, Thinking Allowed, brings together a network of artists, curators, scientists, students and community members coming with expertise from different branches of knowledge – artistic, scientific and Indigenous – to address urgent issues around social justice and the environment. Using both new and traditional practices, this group of […]

Excited to announce a solo screening of a selection of my films at Tokyo’s Image Forum on May 19, 2023. Doors open at 6:30pm (18:30). I will also be presenting a lecture, “My Queer Eye: A personal history of lesbian, gay and trans filmmaking in Canada”. Image Forum 3F “Terayama Shuji” 2-10-2 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku Tel: […]

Thrilled to have two films included in the Distributors’ Screening from VTape and CFMDC at the 69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany.  The distributors’ screenings are out-of-competition screenings where “12 international distributors of artist and avant-garde films present selections from their current catalogues”. Screening will be Friday 28 April 2023; 19:45. Thank you to […]