Manasie Akpaliapik
Renowned Inuk artist, Manasie Akpaliapik, comes from a family of carvers in Arctic Bay, Nunavut. When he was 9-years-old, he sold his first carving to the Hudson’s Bay Company for a box of carnation milk and a toy gun. Manasie’s artwork now lives in collections like the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Ontario Art Gallery and National Art Gallery. This short film explores how Manasie shares his culture and relationship to land through his carvings.
Directed, shot, and edited by Shelby Lisk
Additional cinematography by Matthew Hayes
Rematriate: Passing the Seeds
This short film follows the creation of the "Passing the Seeds" wampum belt. The Passing the Seeds wampum belt is a record of the agreement, relationship, and story of the rematriation of a collection of heirloom seeds from the Sisters of Providence in Kingston to Ratinenhayén:thos, a group of seed savers and knowledge holders, from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.
Directed, shot, and edited by Shelby Lisk
Produced with the support of the DOC Institute
Additional cinematography by Matthew Hayes
Indigenous Arts Collective of Canada - Artist series
One video in a series of commercials created for the Indigenous Arts Collective of Canada. Mother-daughter artists Kelly and Claire both create jewelry in their own styles, pulling from traditional and contemporary inspirations.
Directed, shot, and edited by Shelby Lisk
Produced by Dawn Setford
With music by Theresa Bear Fox
Additional cinematography by Matthew Hayes
Indigenous Arts Collective of Canada - Artist series
One video in a series of commercials created for the Indigenous Arts Collective of Canada. Multi-talented Frankie can sew just about anything - here she is making traditional ribbon skirts.
Directed, shot, and edited by Shelby Lisk
Produced by Dawn Setford
With music by Theresa Bear Fox
Additional cinematography by Matthew Hayes
Indigenous Arts Collective of Canada - Artist series
One video in a series of commercials created for the Indigenous Arts Collective of Canada. Marlene Murphy of Millside Ceramics.
Directed, shot, and edited by Shelby Lisk
Produced by Dawn Setford
With music by Theresa Bear Fox
Additional cinematography by Matthew Hayes
A way to grieve
In January 2019, a dear friend took his life. I spent the subsequent months dredging through the unique complex feelings of grief that occur when you lose someone through suicide.
These are the ways I grieve, try to make sense, find meaning, let go and remember
A simple life
4-years-old Ivy McCoy was diagnosed with down syndrome at two months old. At 2-years-old Ivy was then diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukaemia (ALL), an illness that affects children in the down syndrome population at higher rates than other children. Ivy spent most of the first year in the hospital, followed by doing maintenance chemotherapy at home. On June 26, 2018, she had her last treatment at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.
Melissa, her mother, feels that people often assume that everything is wonderful now that treatment is done but her family continues to work through the reverberations felt after two years of cancer treatment.
This video was created as a student project while completing my photojournalism diploma at Loyalist College, in 2019.
Mohawk Radio
Dustin Brant is an Indigenous outreach officer at Loyalist College and one half of a duo that is bringing Mohawk language and teachings to the College’s 91X radio station through their Mohawk Minute show. The other half of the duo, Nikki Auten, joined Loyalist in the fall as an Indigenous studies professor.
The show focuses on sharing Haudenosaunee traditions, teachings, songs, and language lessons.