Spiling is a trans woman with an affinity for postcards. She’s like REALLY into them. Spiling balancing attempts at old-school postal communication with her grandmother—who happens to be dead—with frantically completing her doctoral clinical training in counselling psychology. Postcards to My Younger Transexual Self (or YTS), Ages 0-119, is an…
it lives in my bedroom is a heightened “art house horror” immersive theatre and multimedia experience, explores how survivors of sexualized violence with PTSD navigate subsequent relationships from a queer, gender diverse and trans survivor’s voice and perspective. The audience is led through a maze of rooms akin to a haunted…
Binary Star unfolds in two halves. In the first, Fátima, a Vancouver-based Brazilian-Canadian dancer-choreographer, traverses British Columbia in the fire-choked summer of 2003. Fátima takes an impromptu detour, only to find herself stranded on a lonesome backroad, surrounded by wilderness, and haunted by memories. The second half transpires over the course…
Engkanto tells of a family haunted through time and place that is both concrete and in the inbetween, by human, colonial and supernatural forces. A parent and his child come face to face with Philippine spirits called the engkanto to reunite their family and reckon with generational secrets, trauma, and stories both told…
In 1979, a family drives back towards Chile from Canada. With past, present, and future encircling their journey, this profoundly poetic story is about the universal quest for home – in whatever form that takes.
Kuroko is a dark comedy about an agoraphobic daughter’s quest to find out the truth about her family.