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Gisèle Gordon is a media artist, writer and programmer. In 1996, she formed the production company Urban Nation with filmmaker and visual artist Kent Monkman. Their award-wining films have screened at festivals such as Sundance, Berlin and TIFF. She directed and produced the feature-length documentary, The Tunguska Project (Hot Docs, Bravo!, IFC, winner Best Feature Length Film at the Planet in Focus Film Festival). She served on the board and programmed for the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival for 8 years and has been a programmer at Hot Docs since 2007. More

  • Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

    Gisèle began programming for the Canadian section of Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, in 2007, and now programs for the international section. Each year, the Festival presents a selection of more than 150 cutting-edge documentaries from Canada and around the globe. Through its industry programs, Hot Docs also provides a full range of professional development, market and networking opportunities for documentary professionals.

  • imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

    Gisèle was a programmer for the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival from 2002 – 2010, and now acts as Advisor to the festival. imagineNATIVE is the world’s largest festival of film, video, radio, and new media works by Indigenous filmmakers and artists. Innovative programming and presentation reflects the diversity of the world's Indigenous nations and illustrates the vitality and excellence of Indigenous art and culture in contemporary media.

  • Independent Curation

    Her independent curation includes a programme of Canadian films for the Salekhard Northern Nomadic Film Festival in Russia in 2005.

  • Listening to the City

    Listening to the City is an experimental, reality-based narrative constructed from fragments of overheard conversations and visuals of extraordinary moments observed in public spaces in the city of Toronto. This project is currently in development phase and has received generous production support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto. More

  • Iskootāo

    Commissioned for Toronto’s Nuit Blanche, 2010, and conceptualised and executed by Gisèle Gordon and Kent Monkman, Iskootāo was a site-specific sound and light installation with live performance that transformed a 650-tonne billion-year-old chunk of the Canadian Shield in Toronto’s Yorkville Park into the pulsing heart of the earth. More

  • The Land that Dreams

    The Land that Dreams is a video, light and sound installation which uses one slice of land to investigate the 12,000 year history of Toronto and explore the nature of storytelling and memory. (in development) More