Gabi Dao

Christine Sun Kim

Abbas Akhavan

Faye HeavyShield

Ser Serpas

This spring, the Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present a series of artist-curated film screenings at the gallery. Inviting five artists from CAG’s recent and upcoming programming to present films that have been formative to their thinking and practice in some way, each screening is a one-night-only event centered on a single feature-length work.

Thursday, March 19
[Abbas Akhavan presents *Before Night Falls* (2000)](https://cagvancouver.org/event/screening-abbas-akhavan-presents-before-night-falls-(2000))

Saturday, March 21
[Christine Sun Kim presents *Who Framed Roger Rabbit* (1988)](https://cagvancouver.org/event/screening-christine-sun-kim-presents-who-framed-roger-rabbit-(1988))

Tuesday, March 24
[Ser Serpas presents *Lake Mungo* (2008)](https://cagvancouver.org/event/screening-ser-serpas-presents-lake-mungo-(2008))

Thursday, March 26 
[Faye HeavyShield presents *Of Mice and Men* (1939)](https://cagvancouver.org/event/screening-faye-heavyshield-presents-of-mice-and-men-(1939))

Saturday, March 28
[gabi dao presents *A Useful Ghost* (2025)](https://cagvancouver.org/event/screening-gabi-dao-presents-a-useful-ghost-(2025))

### RSVP
Tickets to all screenings are free. Registration is encouraged; RSVP links for each screening are available through the links above. 

### Accessibility
Screenings will be held in CAG’s B.C. Binning Gallery, which is wheelchair accessible. All films — with the exception of *Of Mice and Men* (1939) — will be presented with closed captioning. Additional accessibility information can be found [here](https://cagvancouver.org/visit/accessibility). 

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Artists' Screening Series

Previously Viewed

We’re working on our [upcoming exhibitions](/exhibitions-and-events/upcoming). See below for details on our spring screening series while we're between shows.
 
[Visit our archive](/exhibitions-and-events/archive/all) to see past exhibitions and events.

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This spring, the Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present *Previously Viewed*, a series of artist-curated film screenings. Inviting artists from CAG’s recent and upcoming programming to present films that have been formative to their thinking and practice in some way, each screening is a one-night-only event centered on a single feature-length work.

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Faye HeavyShield has selected *Of Mice and Men* (1939).

> Everything and nothing specific about (the memory of) seeing this film as a child, though thinking of it here, I would call it an experience of birth and after-birth.

> My early childhood was spent in relative isolation. On a cattle ranch at the north end of the reserve that my father managed for the Blood Band. Horses, cows, chickens, and dogs, and television was new. Dada hunted deer and each one was a feast. Calves and foals were born and there was blood each time.

> *Of Mice and Men* tells of loyalty, heroes, land, love, brutality, hopes, and dreams.

> These I recognized — even before knowing of this writer John Steinbeck and before watching this movie — as all things present in Sommitsikanaki’s/gramma Kate’s voice relating the adventures of Kutoyis, Napi and our world of living with rocks and animals with whom we shared our language. So there is that power of a good story animated through another medium: film. It would happen that this shift in lens, perspective (reality, even) would evolve and serve me well. I don’t know if it was over time or something innate, but I am thankful to be both participant and observer. That liminality of neither here nor there, but here And there. The time at St. Mary’s Residential School necessitated a place of retreat, when I couldn’t be with family. Books and pictures did that. In particular, I am reminded of my first time reading. That first time, when marks became meaning. And those first words I deciphered on my own were “the dark pony.” I consider it more than a thread through this life as not that long ago, my son and I took a 14-hour drive, there and back, during which we listened to *Blood Meridian*.

> -Faye HeavyShield

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Run time: 107 minutes.

### RSVP
Registration for this event is encouraged; tickets are free. Secure your seat [here](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cag-faye-heavyshield-presents-of-mice-and-men-1939-tickets-1984436926266). 

Rush tickets will also be made available the day of the event, starting at 6:45pm. 

### Accessibility
This event will be held in CAG’s B.C. Binning Gallery, which is wheelchair accessible. Additional accessibility information can be found [here](https://cagvancouver.org/visit/accessibility). Note: This film will be presented without closed captioning. 

###  Biography
Faye HeavyShield is a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy from the Kainai (Blood) Nation in the foothills of Southern Alberta. She is a fluent speaker of the Blackfoot language and studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. HeavyShield has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, including Nations in Urban Landscapes, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; rock paper river, Gallery Connexion, Fredericton; Into the Garden of Angels, The Power Plant, Toronto; and blood, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge. Her work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg; the Heard Museum, Phoenix; the Glenbow Museum, Calgary; and the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina. She is the recipient of an Eiteljorg Native American Contemporary Art Fellowship, and received both the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Award and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize in 2021.  

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Faye HeavyShield presents Of Mice and Men (1939)

[RSVP](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/gabi-dao-selects-a-useful-ghost-2025-tickets-1984347506810 "button")

This spring, the Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present *Previously Viewed*, a series of artist-curated film screenings. Inviting artists from CAG’s recent and upcoming programming to present films that have been formative to their thinking and practice in some way, each screening is a one-night-only event centered on a single feature-length work.

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gabi dao has selected *A Useful Ghost* (2025).

> I selected *A Useful Ghost* in light of Wim Wenders’ self-congratulatory statement at this year’s Berlinale that the film world should “stay out of politics.” Director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke exemplifies how cinema can be fresh, humorous and a very necessary, contemporary political critique in our time of escalating fascism and oppression.

> Steeped in a lineage of Southeast Asian ghost stories, the film's use of haunting as a form of active remembering that resists erasure resonated with me. Aspirationally rigorous in form and content, Ratchapoom skillfully crafts a story of forbidden ghost-human, cross-class romance, collusion and Thailand’s 2010 Red Shirt massacre. In this film, the real horror isn't the motley cast of possessed household electronics, but a world that forgets violent abuses of government power.

> -gabi dao  

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Run time: 130 minutes.

### RSVP
Registration for this event is encouraged; tickets are free. Secure your seat [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/gabi-dao-selects-a-useful-ghost-2025-tickets-1984347506810). 

Rush tickets will also be made available the day of the event, starting at 6:45pm. 

### Accessibility
This event will be held in CAG’s B.C. Binning Gallery, which is wheelchair accessible. Additional accessibility information can be found [here](https://cagvancouver.org/visit/accessibility). This film will be presented with closed captioning. 

###  Biography
gabi dao’s practice is invested in how entanglements with natural and supernatural worlds shape notions of belief and belonging, frequently culminating as sculpture, installation, experimental films, collage, and scent. Through methodologies of gathering, breaking, repairing, listening, and collaboration, their practice insists on blurry temporalities, sensory affirmations and ways of knowing otherwise. Their work often begins within the slippages of “history,” archives and storytelling – towards channeling ineffable tensions between grief and joy, dissidence and complicity, disassociation and sentimentality.

dao’s work has been presented at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Vancouver Art Gallery; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; Radius CCA, Delft, NL; Vincom Centre for Contemporary Art, Hà Nội, VN; and the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, where they were awarded the Research Residency Award; and has been screened at e-flux Screening Room, New York; Sàn Art, Sài Gòn, VN; and numerous festivals including the BFI London Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam. dao holds an MFA from Piet Zwart Institute and has been in residence at Triangle Astérides, Marseille, FR; EKWC, Oisterwijk, NL; and Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL. They are represented by Unit 17.  

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