Distribution News: October 2026
Screenings
Vacouver International Film Festival is Screening Endless Sunlight by Tyson Houseman in the Short Forum 6: Archive Lives! program on October 6th and 7th.
"Before anything becomes archival, it’s lived."
Toronto Queer Film Festival is screening Lesbian National Parks and Services by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan in the Over The Garden Wall program on October 16th.
"Join us on a magical journey of self-discovery through the dark, damp woods and treacherous terrain inhabited by queer friends, lovers, spectral voices, and park rangers alike. Enter landscapes both hyperlocal (shout outs to Hamilton, Ontario) and fantastic (your vampire bestie’s girlfriend, aka the moon) to question nature and what is allowed to be natural. Through an abundance of humour and sensory details, these films ground us in our bodies and encourage us to reclaim the environments often policed by malicious forces, both supernatural and real life.
After the screening, we’ll sit down with the eponymous filmmakers and stars of Gabby and Eleanor Go Up and Down the Mountain to chat about bike (mis)adventures, scraped hands, and inside jokes."
Queer City Cinema is going on a Canadian tour with Qaleidoscope, including a Winnipeg screening on the 22nd and 23rd of October at Video Pool's Output! The show will feature a variety of queer works, including Handsome Devil by Daniel Barrow.
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Antimatter [media art] is screening three works from the VP catalogue online and in person screening:
- nocturne by Zoë LeBrun is screening October 23rd in The Puzzle of Pain program
- Endless Sunlight by Tyson Houseman is screening October 21st in the Endless Sunlight program
- The Fruit Machine: A Space Opera by Lorri Millan and Shawna Dempsey is screening October 24th in the Hugs & Kisses program
Antimatter runs from October 15th-26th in person, with each program s for 24 hours the next day after their initial screening.
TIFF Cinematheque is screening Stain by Hope Peterson in This is the Feminist Archive: The Public Gaze on October 25th. The program features an introduction by the founder of This is the Feminist Archive, Marusya Bociurkiw, and fellow guest programmer Lexie Corbett, with a Q&A following the screening.
"For the past two years, This is the Feminist Archive has brought Canadian films and videos by women from the late 20th century out of the vault, repositioning them as future-oriented archives: what will be seen to have been. Many of these works invent avant-garde strategies and engage in intersectional interrogations. This programme looks at women negotiating public space and identity through narrative and experimental works made between 1988 and 1999. The filmmakers take on the camera’s gaze — in the street, the Rez, the nation — from crossing borders as a South Asian lesbian to eating cupcakes in public. As women’s, BIPOC, and queer bodies face renewed regulation, these bold, playful works feel surprisingly — and perhaps urgently — current."
- Marusya Bociurkiw
Gallerie Buhler's exhibition What Colour is the Sacred runs from September 17th from 6-9pm. The show features a selection of works curated by hannah_g, including opwêyakatâmêw by Tyson Houseman and August by Sharon Alward.
"What is the sacred’s hue, texture, form? How is it perceived and expressed through art? A wonderfully alive quality of the sacred is that it refuses tethers—a quality shared by great art. In this group exhibition, the art works hold the potential to tell us something about where the sacred might be found, whether this is outside ourselves or within.
Quelle est la teinte, la texture, la forme du sacré? Comment est-il perçu et exprimé à travers l’art? L’une des qualités les plus saisissantes du sacré est qu’il refuse toute contrainte – tout comme le grand art. Dans cette exposition collective, les œuvres d’art ont le pouvoir de nous révéler où se trouve le sacré, que ce soit à l’extérieur ou à l’intérieur de nous-mêmes."
Now Introducing to the Catalogue...
Ghosts along the shoreline by Kaya Joan
Ghosts along the shoreline experiments with layering videos taken along the edge of the St. Lawrence River, to produce speculative, transitory landscapes emerging from processes of accumulation and distortion. Images of bodies and land extracted from a geography textbook published in 1905 for schools in Ontario, surface like spectres against shifting terrains, briefly appearing before disappearing again, glitching, mutating, and evading capture.
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Ghost salong the shoreline was made through VPMAC's Video Commission Residency. The work premiered alongside Biologically Disconnected by Herlinda Dalayoan and Kiss the Wound by Christian Hajjar at VPMAC's Poolside Gallery on Sept 18th in VCR VOL. 4: ATTRITION.Â
Congrats to each of the artists on completing and exhibiting these fantastic works!
If you're interested in inquiring about bringing your work into our catalogue please contact madeline@videopool.org