Dear Future Shanique,
I can't wait to see all the adventures you go on, the people you meet and the memories you make. You have accomplished so much and there is no doubt in my mind that you will continue to reach for the stars. Continue to create and inspire. Dream big and love recklessly. Never take no for an answer and never let your well of hope run dry. I hope this video serves you well.
Much love, Shanique 🌸
Film by Shanique Peart
Alice Brisbin was named after her great-grandmother, Violet Alice Root Bentley. Despite sharing a name and hearing stories about her, Brisbin was never able to meet her as Bentley passed away shortly before she was born. Brisbin seeks out Bentley in her hometown of Streetsville, Mississauga, where she approaches several dead ends. Using archival footage and oral histories, Brisbin responds to Bentley's message to her over 100 years later.
Directed and edited by Alice Brisbin Camera and sound by Alice Brisbin and Jack Ballantyne Archival Research by Alice Brisbin, Gordi Brisbin, and the Streetsville Historical Society
This song is about motherhood and childhood, and the connection between the two. It was written for Kay Kenney and first performed alongside a version of this dance at the 2022 GroundUP Dance Festival
Dancers: Kay Kenney, Camille Spencer, Sasha Jimenez French
Videographers: Jesse MacMillan, Peter Pherand
Video Editing: Josh Lyon
Piano: Mike McKitrick
Producer: Kay Kenney
Engineer: Aaron Holmberg
This release was made possible by The IMAGINE Arts Incubator, The Isabel Bader, and The Ballytobin Foundation
This short was taken from a larger project that was a series of shorts and has been editing down to suit festival formats. This film takes inspiration from surrealist methods and focuses on ideas of automatism. This experimental piece was done in one take and was originally eighteen minutes long. Please enjoy this other world in black and white.
Film by Sierrah Zawacki
Film by Alicia Udvari
Sooth is a site-specific movement piece that uses mindfulness to investigate local spaces, finding their essence and relating them to the elements of fire, water, air, and earth. By embodying these findings through meditation and sync work, the team develops choreography that reveals aspects of space often overlooked or ignored. The performance blends movement and dance to uncover the hidden layers of meaning within our everyday environments.
The project's second year in residency with the Kick and Push Festival (2023 & 2024).
Shot By: Click N' Cuts
Movement Artists: Felicia Holmes & Sierrah Zawacki
Artistic Producer &Â Sound Designer: Seymour Irons
A stop motion video created by Josh Lyon for Savannah Shea's original song "Overwhelming Noise"
A love-struck spiritualist takes a life-altering risk to meet their twin flame. ' A short film inspired by Meshes of The Afternoon (1943) by Maya Daren, Walter Cannon's concept "Voodoo Death" and Twin Flame ideologies. Psychogenic Fade (2025) asks us who we love and who loves us.
This film was originally screened as a part of an exhibition at Queen's University in December 2024 called "Windows, Tunnels, and Bumbershoots."Â It featured works from graduate students in Queen's Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies Program (SCCS).
Emmanuel: Seymour Irons
Reporter & Mirror Figure: Iffy Maduabuchi
Camera Operators: Haofan Wang & Andrew O'Neil
I moved to London, England. Alone. This is an account of the difficulty at the beginning. The journey out and through. This applies to all beginnings I think. The difficulty. The journey. The growing pains.
Film by Monique Lee-Vassell
A moment of witness to herself, that allows the dark and light. A mother to her own experience and a child of what is yet to come.
Film by Josh Lyon, Kay Kenney and Darren Shaen
"Body Love'" is a short dance film that explores womanhood and the relationship we have with our bodies.
It is a multidisciplinary collaboration project with the goal of highlighting and celebrating
the journey of womanhood and body positivity.
Using visual art, poetry, dance and acting. We focus on a single individual and her struggle as she shifts from her external battle into her internal world; embodying the woman's world.
Director and Lead Choreographer: Shanique Peart
Producer: The Candid Creative Co
Videographer: Celine Klein
Poetry: Monzy from The Woman with Three Eyes
Visual Artist/Art by: Monika Rosenart
Embodying Woman, Dancer and Poet: Monique Lee-Vassell /MONZY
Dancers:Â Marie Boddington, Elissa Morgan, Alexandra McChesney
Spirit Guide: Felicia Holmes
Spirit/Walkers: Melissa Bonilla, Jarena Lee, Sierrah Zawacki, Laura Chaignon, Shamara Peart, Alicia Udvari
Special thanks to Kingston School of Dance, Union Gallery and Modern Fuel for rehearsal space, props and filming space.