TJ Cuthand
TJ Cuthand was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1978, and grew up in Saskatoon. Since 1995 he has been making short experimental narrative videos and films about sexuality, madness, Queer identity and love, and Indigeneity, which have screened in festivals internationally, including the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, Mix Brasil Festival of Sexual Diversity in Sao Paolo, ImagineNATIVE in Toronto, Ann Arbour Film Festival, Images in Toronto, Berlinale in Berlin, New York Film Festival, Outfest,and Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. His work has also exhibited at galleries including the Remai in Saskatoon, The National Gallery in Ottawa, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, MoMA in New York, and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Film and Video at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2005, and his Masters of Arts in Media Production at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2015. He has made commissioned work for Urban Shaman and Videopool in Winnipeg, Cinema Politica in Montreal, VIMAF in Vancouver, and Bawaadan Collective in Canada. In 2020 he completed working on a 2D video game called A Bipolar Journey based on his experience learning and dealing with his bipolar disorder. It can be found here. He has also written three feature screenplays and has performed at Live At The End Of The Century in Vancouver, Queer City Cinema’s Performatorium in Regina, and 7a*11d in Toronto. In 2017 he won the Hnatyshyn Foundation’s REVEAL Indigenous Art Award. He is a Whitney Biennial 2019 artist. He has made 32 videos and films and counting. Currently he has a feature film in development. He is a non-binary Butch boy who uses He/Him pronouns. He is of Plains Cree and Scots descent, a member of Little Pine First Nation, and currently resides in Toronto, Canada.
Boi Oh Boi
(Self)
Sight
(Self (voice))
Woman Dress
Reclamation
Just Dandy
Lessons In Baby Dyke Theory
Through the Looking Glass
(Alice)
Helpless Maiden Makes an "I" Statement
(Helpless Maiden)
Less Lethal Fetishes
2-Spirit Introductory Special $19.99
2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com
(Host)
Dreams of Sunlight Through Trees
(Self)
Colonization: The Second Coming
(Director)
Bisexual Wannabe
(Writer)
Bisexual Wannabe
(Director)
Bisexual Wannabe
(Editor)
Bisexual Wannabe
(Producer)
Lessons In Baby Dyke Theory
(Director)
Working Baby Dyke Theory: The Diasporic Impact of Cross-Generational Barriers
(Director)
Untouchable
(Director)
Untouchable
(Writer)
Untouchable
(Editor)
Untouchable
(Producer)
Earth Flesh
(Director)
Earth Flesh
(Writer)
Through the Looking Glass
(Director)
Manipulation/Dictation
(Director)
Manipulation/Dictation
(Producer)
Manipulation/Dictation
(Editor)
Manipulation/Dictation
(Writer)
Helpless Maiden Makes an "I" Statement
(Director)
Helpless Maiden Makes an "I" Statement
(Writer)
Helpless Maiden Makes an "I" Statement
(Editor)
You Are a Lesbian Vampire
(Director)
2-Spirit Introductory Special $19.99
(Director)
2-Spirit Introductory Special $19.99
(Writer)
2-Spirit Introductory Special $19.99
(Producer)
2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com
(Director)
2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com
(Writer)
2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com
(Editor)
2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com
(Director of Photography)
2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com
(Producer)
Kwêskosîw: She Whistles
(Director)
Kwêskosîw: She Whistles
(Writer)
Anhedonia
(Director)
Boi Oh Boi
(Director)
Boi Oh Boi
(Writer)
Sight
(Director)
Sight
(Writer)
The Longform Lesbian Census
(Director)
Medicine and Magic
(Director)
13 Eggs
(Director)
Medicine Bundle
(Director)
Madness in Four Actions
(Director)
Madness in Four Actions
(Producer)
Madness in Four Actions
(Editor)
Love & Numbers
(Writer)
Love & Numbers
(Director)
Love & Numbers
(Editor)
Love & Numbers
(Producer)
Neurotransmitting
(Director)
The Lost Art of the Future
(Director)
Less Lethal Fetishes
(Director)
Woman Dress
(Director)
Woman Dress
(Writer)
Extractions
(Director)
Homelands
(Director)
Reclamation
(Director)
Just Dandy
(Director)
Dreams of Sunlight Through Trees
(Director)