DISTRIBUTION HIGHLIGHTS: November 2025
Recent and Upcoming Screenings:
WAG-Qaumajuq opened their exhibition Staycation: The Art of Being Here on October 29th. Staycation features a selection of local works from their permanent collection, including following works from the VP catalogue:
- I'm BoHUNKy-Dory With It (My Nose) by Sandee Moore
- Oh Mother, Oh Prairies by Ibrahim Shuaib
- Wînipêk by James Dixon
- Home by Colleen Simard
"Through a focused selection of Manitoban artworks from the last fifty years, the exhibition invites viewers to experience their surroundings through new eyes—offering both a playful escape and a grounded sense of belonging. This iteration of the exhibition will be divided into a selection of distinct thematic sections exploring subjects like place, representation, collecting, the macabre, signs and symbols, spirituality, and materiality."
Gimmie Some Truth screened four works from the VP catalogue:
- a beaten path by Toby Gillies and Natalie Baird and Wînipêk by James Dixon screened in the "pastoral nocturnes" program.
"Through paper cut outs, time lapse, scratch animation, hand and eco-processing, this collection of films acts as a diaristic travelogue, exploring mediations on place, colonial structures, and the natural world breaking through the cracks."
- Oh Mother, Oh Prairies by Ibrahim Shuaib and River Revelations, by Darcy Tara McDiarmid and Chantal Rousseau screened in "The index Reframed" program
"The Index Reframed features short films that interweave the boundaries between the real and the imagined, the evidentiary and the poetic. Through animation, performance, lyrical montage, and experimental film, these films reimagine the cinematic index as a fixed trace of reality that is also a site of embodiment, memory, and re-enactment. Drawing from discourse on expanded documentary and animated testimony, the program explores the idea that truth can emerge through aesthetic invention as well as factual representation. Themes of migration, dislocation, intergenerational knowledge and joy flow through these works, revealing how subjectivity itself becomes an archival gesture reframing what it means to bear witness and remember in an era where the image holds proof and projection."
Hum of the Blue Hive Roewen Crowe and Porch by Jack Lauder are both featured Tending the Wild, running from September 11th-November 14th at Buhler Gallery.
"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
New to the Catalogue:
Poem by &&
This love letter was inspired by a poem Kegan wrote for Dillon after their first romantic getaway to Jordan River. A tender portrait of queer joy, Poem explores memory, intimacy, and landscape through warm footage shot on location in the traditional territories ofT'Sou-ke First Nation.
If you're interested in inquiring about bringing your work into our catalogue please contact madeline@videopool.org