The Winnipeg Film Group’s Mosaic Women’s Film Project is a special production support and film mentorship program to assist two women of Aboriginal or diverse cultural backgrounds to produce an independent short film or video.
As the third edition of the Mosiac Women’s Project comes to an end we are thrilled to premiere two new short works by artists Miriam Sainnawap and Rhayne Vermette.
The Visitor (working title)
dir. Miriam Sainnawap, 2012, 5 min
Sainnawap’s experimental documentary captures her personal experience of living in the city as an Aboriginal person. She shows the unique challenges and counteracts stereotypes through the use of a soft super 8 camera lens.
Miriam is an emerging filmmaker from an Oji-Cree community in Northwestern Ontario called Kingfisher Lake. She has a keen interest in English Literature and Philosophy which she brings to her filmmaking practice. Currently living in Winnipeg,The Visitor is her first film.
Tudor Village
dir. Rhayne Vermette, 2012, 4 min
The Pembina spillway is a direct route used by the city to drain the darkness stored between household walls. Shadows are set free on the murky stream, to wash away and be forgotten somewhere beyond the city’s circumference.Adrift in the pools of darkness, sometimes things wander off course – and these neglected items finally settle in Tudor Village.
Rhayne is an artist and experimental filmmaker based in Winnipeg. She’s had exhibitions at Ace Art and the Royal Albert Arms Hotel. Her films have screened in Montreal, St Johns, and Barcelona.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Winnipeg Film Group acknowledges the generous support of the Canada Coucil for the Arts for this project
