Event Details
Date & Time:
Thu May 29, 2025
7 PM
Location:
The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
Audience:
Open to the public
Details:
Temporal Territories: Indigenous Experimental Cinema with filmmakers Lindsay McIntyre & Adam Piron of COUSIN Collective
Founded in 2018 by Sky Hopinka, Adam Khalil, Alexandra Lazarowich, and Adam Piron, COUSIN is a film collective created to support Indigenous artists expanding traditional definitions and understandings of the moving image by experimenting with form and genre. Their artists and supported works have screened at the Berlinale, the Whitney Biennial, the Criterion Channel, and various other festivals and venues.
Join us for this screening featuring selected short works by Co-Founder Adam Piron and Cycle II artist Lindsay McIntyre that showcase the ethos of COUSIN, its advocacy of Indigenous experimentation in cinema, and the diversity and depths of their filmmaking practices. These bold films span from experimental cameraless films, to super 8mm essay films, traditional narrative structures, and 16mm avant-garde works, all exploring and interpreting Indigenous knowledge and philosophies.
Films screened:
where she stood in the first place (Lindsay McIntyre, 2012, 10 min, 16mm)
Yaangna Plays Itself (Adam Piron, 2022, 7 min, 16mm-to-digital)
Tuktuit (caribou) (Lindsay McIntyre, 2025, 17 min, 16mm)
The Early Sun, Red as a Hunter’s Moon (Adam Piron, 2025, 13 min, expired 8mm film-to-digital)
Black Glass (Adam Piron, 2024, 9 min, digital)
NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind) (Lindsay McIntyre, 2023, 17 min, digital)
Total run time approx. 80 min
Followed by a post-screening conversation with McIntyre and Piron.
Yaangna Plays Itself (2022) by Adam Piron
About the artists:
Lindsay McIntyre (she/her) is a filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist of Inuk and settler descent working primarily with analogue film. Her multiple award-wining short documentaries, experimental films and expanded cinema performances are often process-based and for some she also makes her own 16mm film with handmade silver gelatin emulsion. Using experimental and handmade techniques, her short films circle themes of portraiture, place, form and personal histories. Interested simultaneously in the apparatus of cinema and representation, she bridges gaps in collective experience and remains dedicated to integrating theory and practice, form and content. Current research involves the auto-ethnographical exploration of intergenerational trauma and the grandmother effect as a biological survival mechanism, as well as a SSHRC funded research and creation project linking land use, art practices, cultural knowledge and resource extraction in the circumpolar north.
https://tinymovingpictures.com/
Adam Piron (Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and Mohawk) is a Southern California-based filmmaker, writer, and curator. He is a co-founder of COUSIN: a film collective dedicated to supporting Indigenous artists experimenting with, and pushing the boundaries, of the moving image. As a film programmer, he has served as a member of the Sundance Film Festival’s Film Programming Team since 2013 and was also previously the Film Curator for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and he has guest-curated film programs for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, TIFF Lightbox, the Autry Museum of the American West, Metrograph, and various other film festivals and venues. His films have screened at the New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, MoMA Doc Fortnight, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, and various other festivals and programs. His writings have appeared in The Criterion Collection's Current, MUBI Notebook, Cinema Scope Magazine, the Metrograph Journal, and CNN.
About COUSIN:
COUSIN is a collective supporting Indigenous artists expanding the form of film. COUSIN creates and supports work that is personal, proudly provocative and driven by strong, artistic voices. We celebrate this work and get it made, seen and shared. Founded in 2018 by Sky Hopinka, Adam Khalil, Alexandra Lazarowich and Adam Piron, COUSIN was created to provide support for Indigenous artists expanding traditional definitions and understandings of the moving image by experimenting with form and genre. With the generous support of Cinereach, Ford Foundation JustFilms, and Nia Tero, COUSIN has been able to grant artists support via new commissions and general practice support. Work supported ranges from features, short films, installation, and hybrid projects, and these artists make up a diverse international group of emerging and established artists poised to take the next important step in their practice. Works supported by COUSIN have since been screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, Visions du Réel, New York Film Festival, Jeonju International Film Festival, imagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival, the Criterion Channel, and the Whitney Biennial among many other festivals, platforms, and screening venues.
https://www.cousincollective.org/
FREE & OPEN TO ALL
Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu