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Experience Indigenous storytelling in VR through works that envision life in an Indigenous future. Free Virtual Reality experiences will be available in the Art Lab from 11 am–4 pm.
Blueberry Pie Under a Martian Sky
Directed by Scott Benesiinaabandan (Anishinabe)
Bringing to life a prophetic Anishinaabe legend about a young boy who travels through a wormhole back to his people’s place or origin. This work addresses concerns about the revitalization, growth, and evolution of the Anishinaabe language. 2019, 5 min.
Each Branch Determined
Directed by by Postcommodity (Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist)
Imagining northern New Mexico 150 years in the future, where American Indian and Xicano pueblos work collaboratively to exercise communal and regional self-determination. This work echoes sci-fi conventions of an apocalyptic future that gradually reveal themselves to be a series of managed processes intended to restore and manage land and its resources, as well as community ceremonies seeking to culturally and socially actuate past, present, and future. 2019, 6 min.
Honour Dance
Directed by Kent Monkman (Cree)
Honour Dance is a virtual reality experience based on Dance to Berdashe (2008), a five-channel video installation by Kent Monkman. Set in a verdant meadow at magic hour, Honour Dance offers a contemporary reinterpretation of a traditional Indigenous ritual featuring the “Berdashe,” a gender-bending figure whose behavior and very existence astonished and appalled European explorers in North America. 2019, 5 min.
The Hunt
Directed by Danis Goulet (Cree/Métis)
The Hunt imagines a postwar North America in 2167 that lies in ruin, where the law is enforced by a fleet of automated orbs that patrol the skies. When an orb interferes with a man and his son on a goose hunt on sovereign Mohawk territory, it forces an altercation. 2019, 6 min.
2167 Indigital Space project was commissioned and produced in 2019 by Toronto International Film Festival, ImagineNATIVE, Pinnguaq, and the Initiative for Indigenous Futures.