ALFF Creator Talk: David Curtis on poetic cinema

This event took place on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025 at 1:00 pmYukon Arts Centre Gallery

An artist talk and public conversation about poetic cinema, art film, video art and media art installation within the
context of David’s current exhibition “Land Mass” at the Yukon Arts Centre Gallery.

David Curtis is an off-grid dwelling commercial fisher, carpenter and artist who has had the honour and privilege of living in Dawson City, within the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in traditional territory, Yukon since 1998. David’s work focuses on the associative possibilities between form, subject and meaning, and is predicated on the idea that poetry, passion and humility are not only important to being human, but essential to our survival. Sovereign Soil (2019) was David’s first feature documentary and is part of a planned triptych of works exploring the intimacies, paradoxes and cultures of his community’s evolving relationship to its lands, flora and fauna. In 2023, the 50-minute documentary The Ballad of Caveman Bill filmed and directed by David was released by Jackleg Films.

Land Mass in the YAC Gallery is a compelling series of film and multimedia sculpture installations in his latest solo exhibition.