Image credit: Take Care (2026), by Kristin Snowbird
Phenomena is presented in partnership by the WNDX Festival of Moving Image and ICCA: Indigenous Curatorial Collective
Screening in Marseille, France at Triangle-Astérides, Thursday, March 23, 2026 at 6 pm
Phenomena: Short Films by Canadian Indigenous Women Filmmakers
Curated by Cecilia Araneda for the WNDX Festival of Moving Image
Screening program: 51 mins
Phenomena features short films by five Indigenous women artists who trace their emergence as filmmakers to Canada’s central prairie region. The works journey through sensorial memories of land, space and time, foregrounding the notion of individual identity as an extension of cultural temporal continuity. The pieces, all shot on analogue film, include both first forays in filmmaking and advanced technical experimentations in collage practices and hand-made film emulsion.
This program includes works by Rhayne Vermette, Caroline Monnet, Kristin Snowbird, Robyn Adams and Lindsay Aksarniq McIntyre.
Les Châssis de Lourdes | Rhayne Vermette
19 mins, 2016
An architectural threnody composed through a falsified genealogy of image making and various “true stories” of Lourdes. What time is it? No time to look back.
Pidikwe | Caroline Monnet
10 mins, 2025
PIDIKWE activates the tropes of the Roaring Twenties European art movement to consider what it might have looked like from an Anishinaabe point of view, combining traditional Indigenous and contemporary dance to connect art to community-based knowledge.
Take Care | Kristin Snowbird
4 mins, 2026
Filmmaker Kristin Snowbird makes a traditional Indigenous ribbon skirt as her grandmother recounts in Anishinaabemowin the traditions that her own mother handed down. Take Care was created through a WNDX film production program.
Michif Land-Based Knowledge | Robyn Adams
3 mins, 2024
Weaving shots of historical and contemporary Métis beadwork with intricate flashes of prairie landscape and native plants, this film explores relationship to the land through a place-based tactile knowledge. Michif Land-Based Knowledge was created through a WNDX film production program.
Tuktuit : Caribou | Lindsay Aksarniq McIntyre
15 mins, 2025
An exploration of the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichens, and land use. A handmade caribou gelatin emulsion reveals the land where caribou struggle to survive burn events and habitat disruption.