DISTRIBUTION HIGHLIGHTS: August 2025
Selected Recent & Upcoming Screenings
Hum of the Blue Hive (by Roewen Crowe) and Porch (by Jack Lauder) are both featured in an upcoming exhibition at Buhler Gallery, opening September 11, 2025, titled Tending the Wild.Â
"Gardens are an intermediary between self-directing nature and domesticity and are entangled with politics, history, and culture. The title of this exhibition comes from a line in Paradise Lost, a seventeenth century poem by John Milton that features the Garden of Eden. “Tending” implies attending to and working with nature but also carries the sense of a tendency towards maximality and heedlessness of boundaries. Like gardeners, many artists tend the wild and the work contained in this exhibition touches on healing, subversion, pleasure, fecundity, and reciprocity, as well as history and politics. It does not adhere to a manicured definition of what a garden or exhibition is, but like them it encourages us to tend our own wild, to explore both useful and fruitless borders, and to see what can grow within us with a bit of work, dirt, light, and imagination."
Curated by hannah_g
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 Handsome Devil (by Daniel Barrow) will be screening at Vancouver Queer Film Festival this autumn in Vancouver.
Featured in a program titled Screaming, Crying, Laughing, comprised of "horror and sci-fi shorts that find humour in the frightening, existential, and strange. From lonely rodent girls and claymation space adventures, sissy devils and murderous revenge fantasies–these films explore the inherent queerness and camp of the horror and sci-fi genres."
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 Handsome Devil (by Daniel Barrow) will be screening at the 32nd annual Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF) in a shorts program titled Vox Machinarum
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 Handsome Devil (dir. Daniel Barrow) and Host (dir. Zachery Cameron Longboy) will be screening at Queer City Cinema's upcoming festival in Regina
Queer City Cinema Inc. (based in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) was initiated in 1996 as a biennial film and video festival and has, over the years, come to program both film and performance art. The organization now presents one festival annually - a combination of Performatorium: Festival of Queer Performance and Queer City Cinema: Film Festival.
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Handsome Devil (by Daniel Barrow) is screening at the Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) this September.
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When Land and Body Merge (dirs. Jaime Black and Lindsay Delaronde Baird) and Pixels of the Orient (dir. Warren Chan) screened in a program hosted by Pleasure Dome titled Dislocated Visions this past August.
"Dislocated Visions brings together ten works that engage with moving image as a method of thinking through place—where place is not a fixed site but a layered and shifting impression shaped by lived experience, memory, displacement, and the technologies of perception. Spanning geographies from Iran and Ukraine to Finland and North America—as well as the human body—these works attend in experimental ways to territories marked by colonialism, extraction, migration, and resistance."
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a beaten path (by Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies) was featured in Cats in the Cracks, a program in Toronto curated by the re:assemblage collective as part of DIFFUSION.
"Step into a world where plants push through city cracks, history comes alive through stories and stone, and childhood dreams sparkle on the beach. This program brings together short films about nature’s resilience, childhood wonder, moving animals, and the many ways people and places connect across time and space. These stories help us ask big questions about history, nature, and how people connect to the places they live"
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If you're interested in inquiring about bringing your work into our catalogue please contact madeline@videopool.org