ALFF Short Films: Yukon Light

This screening took place on Friday, February 9, 2024 at 6:30 pmYukon Arts Centre

The annual celebration of and spotlight on remarkable films by Yukon filmmakers.

Datrin (Raven)

DIR. Douglas Joe, 2024, Yukon | 5 MIN | Drama

Datrin is a fictional story that imagines a world where there is only one last fluent speaker of the Gwitch’n language. The short depicts a morning in her life of and the speaker's language reality and her hope for the future.

Tourist Town

DIR. Dan Sokolowski, 2023, Yukon | 5 MIN | Experimental

A visit to Dawson City in Canada’s Yukon Territory is like stepping back in time. Restored buildings stand testimony to the town’s colorful story from the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. Or do they… Dir. Dan Sokolowski, 2023, Dawson City | 5 MIN

UNGULATIDE

DIR. Jake Armstrong, 2023, Yukon | 4 MIN | Experimental

Experimental film shot on super 8 film.

Observational Film

DIR. Jessica Hall, 2023, Yukon | 3 MIN | Experimental

An experimental film that blurs the line between technology and everyday life and positions itself between the mundane and the hyperreal. Yukon 48 2023 winner: Best Experimental.

Deminted

DIR. Rebecca Pratt, 2023, Yukon | 4 MIN

Yukon 48 2023 winner: Best Drama.

Draw Us In – Montage

DIR. Julie Robinson, 2024, Yukon | 7 MIN

Draw Us In introduces us to Yukon artists that live with a disability, while fostering a message that we can have a diverse and creative community that includes everyone. These artists show us that this kind of world is within reach.

How We Walk With the Land and Water

DIR. Jewel Davies, 2024, Yukon | 28 MIN

Jewel Davis explores the mission and history of “How We Walk with the Land & Water,” an initiative developed collectively by the Carcross/Tagish First Nation, the Kwanlin Dün First Nation, and the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council, in 2017. The initiative is guided by Elders focused on indigenizing methods of “land-planning,” by gathering traditional knowledge, stories, and scientific data to help inform a new and sustainable “land relationship plan.”

Funded by How We Walk with the Land & Water (HWW), RIVER collective (based in New Zealand), Northern Council for Global Cooperation (NCGC), and features the following knowledge holders: Mark Wedge, Margaret McKay, Joyce Smarch, Keith Wolfe-Smarch, Rose Irvine, Belit Peters, Sean Smith, Tess McLeod.