FESTIVAL VENUES:
• Gas Station Arts Centre
445 River Ave, at Osborne
• Rachel Browne Theatre
211 Bannatyne Ave, 2nd floor
In the same building as the Across the Board Game Cafe
• Video Pool’s The Output
100 Arthur St, 2nd floor
in Artspace, across the street from the Cube
TICKETS:
Ticket Shop
* Cash or e-transfer to info@wndx.org available at the door
• Opening night: $15
• One Take Super-8 Event: pwyc ($10 recommended)
• All other screenings: pwyc ($5 recommended)
FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING:
• Open Call Selection Committee: Cecilia Araneda, Kyath Battie, Mahlet Cuff, a. laurel Lawrence, Elian Mikkola
• Curators: Cecilia Araneda, Alex Rogalski, Jenny Western, wave~form~projects and re:assemblage collective
FESTIVAL PRODUCTION:
• Festival Producer: Cecilia Araneda
• Technical Director: Eusebio Lopez-Aguilar
• Operations Assistant: Semira Abolore
• Events: Karen Asmundson
• Design: Sadie
• For Filmchief: Dennis Pasveer
SPECIAL THANK YOU:
A special thank you to Derek Jenkins and Elian Mikkola for securing super 8 projectors for the festival in Hamilton and Montreal, and shipping them out to us!
We also thank Franci Duran and Taylor McArthur, who stepped off the board during the past year, following the completion of two year terms.
FESTIVAL FUNDERS:
• Canada Council for the Arts
• Winnipeg Foundation
• Manitoba Arts Council
• Winnipeg Arts Council
• Telefilm Canada
FESTIVAL PARTNERS:
• Manitoba Film + Music
• NIMAC: National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition
• Black Film Collective
• FascinAsian Film Festival
• Harbour Collective
Welcome to the 20th
WNDX Festival of Moving Image!
Our 20th anniversary edition takes us back to our roots, focusing on the very impetus for the festival’s founding in 2005: to provide a platform for new Winnipeg and prairie cinema, and to serve as a meeting ground for experimental film on the prairies.
We’re especially thrilled to open this year’s festival with the films of one of Winnipeg’s most influential filmmakers, editors and programmers – WNDX’s own Jaimz Asmundson. Asmundson was one of the main driving forces behind the festival and his contributions played a large role in the organization being able to reach this milestone anniversary. While he passed away far too young, Asmundson’s spirit remains central to what WNDX is today, and we are honoured to celebrate his work on this anniversary year.
Our open call series once again examines new trends and evolutions in filmmaking – locally, nationally and internationally. It includes the stunning experimental feature documentary Eastern Anthems by WNDX alum Matthew Wolkow and co-director Jean-Jacques Martinod, a film exploring the Great Eastern Brood X periodical cicadas that emerge every 17 years. The shorts selections in the open call series include examinations of bodies in motion, site and memory, and both technical and whimsical experiments in moving image. Rounding out the series is a program of midnight shorts, There is Something Wrong Here, that would surely receive Jaimz Asmundson’s personal stamp of approval.
We’re also thrilled to have a number of special curated shorts programs, including several that look back at 20 years of WNDX new prairie cinema programming, among them 20×25: The One Take Retrospective, joining the annual One Take Super 8 Event screening this year. We additionally have a touring 20th anniversary retrospective program, A Prairie Syntax: A Feminist Mapping of Canadian Prairie Filmmaking, screening at EMAMI ART Experimental Art Film Festival in Kolkata, India, upcoming Sept 11-14, 2025, in the lead up to the festival.
On this anniversary year, I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge Dave Barber and his contribution to WNDX. Dave was WNDX’s biggest fan – even before the festival came to be, from the time it was just an idea that we were talking about in 2005. Dave would go on to formally join the WNDX team in its early years, serving as the festival’s longtime publicist, championing our programming with a passion that only he was capable of.
Most especially given this history, it’s disappointing to WNDX that we lost access to the Dave Barber Cinematheque this year. Except for Monica Lowe, there is nobody living who worked as closely with Dave Barber, for as long as I did. We knew each other exceptionally well, and I know he would have wanted for WNDX to continue to be able to use the venue intended to honour all that he worked towards. But I also know he would have told us “the show must go on!” in the face of any obstacle, for this festival’s existence was so deeply important to him. And so we carry forward this festival with amazing new (and returning) venues and partners, certain that Dave himself would have expected nothing less from us.
Finally, I wanted to express sincere gratitude to the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition (NIMAC) for having graciously provided us with guidance during this difficult year.
Cecilia Araneda
Co-Founder and Executive Artistic Director
WNDX Festival of Moving Image