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Video artist Thirza Cuthand gives an artist talk about her career spanning 25 years beginning with her DIY queer youth videos, experimental videos, and her adventures navigating the film industry the last few years. Her work often features Indigenous and Queer and 2 Spirit/Indigiqueer subject matter. More recently her work has been about political issues like artwashing, colonial resource extraction, and climate change. She will also discuss how her early DIY techniques can be applied to creating videos during COVID19, and introducing some contemporary means of DIY video creation.

Bio:
Born 1978, Regina, Canada. Since 1995 she has been making short experimental narrative videos and films about sexuality, madness, Queer identity and love, and Indigeneity, which have screened in festivals and galleries internationally. She completed her BFA majoring in Film and Video at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2005, and her Masters of Arts in Media Production at Ryerson University in 2015. She has also written three feature screenplays and has performed at Live At The End Of The Century in Vancouver, Queer City Cinema’s Performatorium in Regina, and 7a*11d in Toronto. In 2017 she won the Hnatyshyn Foundation’s REVEAL Indigenous Art Award. She is a Whitney Biennial 2019 artist. She is of Plains Cree and Scots descent, a member of Little Pine First Nation, and currently resides in Toronto, Canada.


From Thirza (Filmmaker/Artist/Writer)
Pronouns: She/Her
I live on the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. I come from Little Pine First Nation which is a signatory to Treaty Six. Treaty Six territory is the home of the Plains Cree, Woodland Cree, Blackfoot, Dene, Saulteaux, Dakota, Ojibwe and Métis people.