KATE THE SPINNING WONDER
Jesi Jordan | Canada | 2025 | 20m
A new short film by Jesi Jordan features Kate The Spinning Wonder who does difficult tricks with yoga balls on her fingers and toes, turning her AUTistic Trait into an ARTistic Talent!
The event will also feature a pre-recorded talk between Jesi and Kate as well as live performance by Kate The Spinning Wonder!
tickets are $10
BOOK OF DREAMS
Willow Arts Community | Canada | 2025 | 5m
BOOK OF DREAMS explores what happens when we can choose our dreams. It starts with a nightmare, where thoughts and feelings chase our character. This leads to an abstract place from which we cannot escape, ultimately transitioning into a beautiful dream where they can change their perspective of life.
The central theme of the film is to share these possibilities. A magical object, a mysterious book, plays a significant role in the story. When people touch and look inside the book, they are transported into their subconscious, experiencing a personal dream that allows them to reflect on their lives.
This film is the creation of members of the Willow Arts Community, individuals with lived experience of mental illness/substance use who are motivated to explore their creative identities, to connect, and to learn alongside peers.
The members are being taught and guided in the creation of this film by Luis Martin Flores, a multidisciplinary artist born in Mexico City where he studied arts and filmmaking. Luis moved to Canada in 2000 and has worked on numerous television shows and feature films. He has directed short and feature length films and is in post-production for the documentary No Somos Invisibles.
GRAPEFRUIT
Skye Rogers | 2021 | 4m
grapefruit is largely inspired by conceptual and Fluxus artist, Yoko Ono, who published an instructional poem book by the same name. The short film is an invitation to slow down; to engage deeply with the present, to pause and gaze, and notice the tiny, beautiful details of the world, including the people among you, doing the same. It was shot on a Sony Handycam digital video camcorder at different locations around Downtown St. Catharines and the Fitzgerald neighbourhood.
Skye Rogers (she/her) is a multi-hyphenate performing artist based in Attiwandaronia (Hamilton, Ontario) and St. Catharines. Dearly devoted to making spaces for people to feel at home, Skye explores her relationship to place, body, and community, through choreography, workshop facilitation, devised theatre creation, film creation, and performance. Skye is the co-Artistic Director of retrograde: dance in motion and Tapestry Theatre Collective, and is an Artistic Associate with Aeris Körper. She is an alumni of the RBC Apprenticeship with Musical Stage Co. in (Choreography, 2023-24), Brock University (Arts Leadership, 2022) and Randolph College for the Performing Arts (Triple Threat, 2019).
grapefruit is also screening in Tidal Surges: Experimental Shorts on Wed 12 Nov.