27th Dawson City International Short Film Festival, 2026

Dates: April 2 – 5, 2026
Gallery Hours: Saturday 4:30pm – 6pm, Sunday 6pm – 7:30pm
Location: ODD Gallery, Dënäkär Zho |  KIAC
Indigenous Territory: Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in territory, Dawson City, Yukon

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 3rd at 4pm – 6pm


Reflective Vision

An installation of experimental films from across Canada, offering a moment of stillness and reflection.

MARROW OF MY BONES

Karly McCloskey, Ontario, 2m

A short experimental film that has been created through a mixture of digital special effects, compositing, frame by frame animation, and 16mm hand processed film. Through material-based exploration, this film plays with the concept of post-humanism via the return to nature and the body in a tactile and gritty manner.

A BEATEN PATH

Natalie Baird, Toby Gillies, Manitoba, 3m

A study of urban prairie plant-lie living between the cracks – thistles, burdock, plantain, etc – that spent the summer flourishing in surface parking lots and burned out demolition sites. A looping and constant push forward creates interconnecting cycles of growth and death of these creatures and spaces.

SERENE HUES

B.G — Osborne, Newfoundland, 10m
Peripheral vision is an experiment with magnetic video recording/ manipulation to promote media degradation as signals are repeatedly translated between analog and digital. Through a transsexual/neurodivergent lens, the artist explores the interplay between optic and social aberrations, and expresses their anxieties about the rise of surveillance/fascism in Canada.