ON Culture Days: 401 Commons presents SERIOUS BIZ short films screening

Director: Dayna McLeod
Canada | 2023 | 0:50 min | Presented by FADO Performance Art

An introduction to DaynAI, an AI doppelgänger for queer media artist, Dayna McLeod.

Director: Dayna McLeod
Canada | 2023 | 1:15 min | Presented by FADO Performance Art

Media artist Dayna McLeod uses her AI actor, DaynAI to discuss the challenges of working with an AI actor and AI voice-cloning subscription fees.

Director: Hannah Hull & Tara Hakim
Canada, United Kingdom | 2023 | 10 min | Presented by Reel Asian

This experiential and textural short film invites viewers into the inner workings of a mind, to ponder how we love and unlove ourselves.

Director: Noor Gatih
Canada | 2024 | 04:31 min | Presented by SAVAC

POP explores sisterhood, friendships and bonds that feel karmic. The film documents two sisters, Marium and Laila Vahed, as they spend a seemingly ordinary day trying to pass the time.

Director: Evelyn Pakinewatik
Nipissing First Nation | 2019 | 8:00 min | Preseented by imagineNATIVE

n search of moose in the vibrant near north, a life-long hunter tests his rifle. Mooz Miikan offers a quietly intimate and candid portrayal of an aging hunter with his youngest child on their traditional territory.

Directors: Alice Sheppard & Danielle Peers
Canada | 2019 | 5:40 min | Presented by Vtape

Inclinations began as a moment of ‘crip’ play. Alice Sheppard and Danielle Peers finding themselves on a 90-foot ramp on “social street”: the main entrance of the Kinesiology building at the University of Alberta.