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• The Many Faces of NOFAC3: Documenting Calgary’s Queer Underground

  Khrysta Lloren’s Catfish Killer (2017) is about a serial killer lying about who they are and using online manipulation to seduce, meet, and murder straight men.¹Its satire for queers...

• The Many Faces of NOFAC3: Documenting Calgary’s Queer Underground

  Lloren moved to Calgary from Cebu City, Philippines at the age of 19 and attended the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) where they majored in painting....

• The Many Faces of NOFAC3: Documenting Calgary’s Queer Underground

  In 2020 NOFAC3 directed a music video for the song “Toxigenic[https://vimeo.com/391825858]” by Khillah Khills utilizing local queer talent. It’s a culmination of the artist’s aesthetic choices, using elements of...

• SPAM: No More Plastic Humyns! I Want Affective Indoctrination.

  Currently, as we live through a pandemic with government mandated self-isolation, we are facing increasingly online and networked existences. So many interactions and behaviours that consisted of physical humyn...

• SPAM: No More Plastic Humyns! I Want Affective Indoctrination.

  Yet, art institutions have fallen under more scrutiny in the context of the pandemic.⁸Though artists are expected to continue production for income and reputation, online art production has changed the...

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  Written, animated, and directed by Canadian Abenaki artist Diane Obomsawin, I Like Girls (2016) tells the stories of four queer women and their first loves: “For them, discovering that they're attracted to...

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  Estonian-born artist Chintis Lundgren, who now lives in Crotia, describes her work as having a “light, absurdist tone along with distinct anthropomorphic characters.”⁸Manivald (2017), is the story of a young male fox coming to terms...

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  In A Short Film about Tegan & Sara (2018), Asian-Canadian artist Ann Marie Fleming⁹draws stick figures on brightly coloured backgrounds to illustrate the career of Calgary born musicians and identical twins Tegan and Sara Quin....

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  Canadian animator Shira Avni’s ten-minute animated film John and Michael(2004) celebrates the lives of two gay men with Down’s Syndrome. Typical of her work, the film addresses“questions of difference and social...

• Calling All Queers: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  Canadian documentarian and artist Lynne Fernie’s²¹seventeen-minute Apples and Oranges(2003)is the longest of the five films I have selected and was created with a children’s audience in mind. As noted in the synopsis,...