TJ Cuthand Movies

In 1995 when Thirza Cuthand was 16 she felt like the only lesbian at her Saskatoon high school. This turned out to be untrue, but the lack of...

Weaving together family narratives and current thoughts on the pandemic, the ethics of representation, and the nature of the sacred, Thirza Cuthand...

Super 8 footage layered with Sharpie marked lines and circles obscuring the image illustrates the story of the filmmaker’s experience with...

TJ Cuthand and his mother Ruth Cuthand have a candid conversation about TJ’s last hospitalization for Bipolar Disorder in 2007. While TJ only...

Pre-contact, a Two Spirit person named Woman Dress travels the Plains, gathering and sharing stories. Featuring archival images and dramatized...

A girl with a bad habit of falling for older women befriends a boy lover. This video is an examination of relationships between adults and teenagers....

A young lesbian, frustrated with a recent relationship, explores bisexuality and has an enlightening discovery.

Reclamation is a documentary futurism short about three Indigenous survivors left behind on Earth after white people leave a destroyed planet behind...

An original video diary documenting the director's efforts to have artificial insemination. Cuthand describes his desire to have children of his own...

Half-breed Alice attempts to become queen and struggles with the Red Queen and the White Queen's disapproval of her racial transgressions.

A love story about the history of an interracial family's ancestors and the lands they emigrated from and migrated to. It is also a personal story...

Theo practices his guitars! He’s not very good at it yet but he’s trying.

A Two Spirited woman surrounded by spy signals and psychiatric walls attempts to make sense of love, global paranoia, and her place in the history of...

On the way to her girlfriend's place, an Indigenous woman is assaulted by her cab driver. Amidst the struggle, she discovers a deadly supernatural...

“I think being in the lesbian community means being in a very tiny room with the same five people, four of whom you absolutely despise.”

Sounds and visuals give a “physical” overview of the Land Question, and Cuthand turns the question around regarding what it means to own...

Invited to speak at an Indigenous Revolutionary Meeting, the narrator describes an intimate encounter with an Evil Colonizing Queen which led to...

Anhedonia doesn't play to the back of the church. It shoots directly to the point with poetry and images that evoke controversy in one mind set and...

After a long period in life identifying as a Butch Lesbian, Cuthand considers transitioning to male. After a considerable amount of thought and...

A helpless maiden is tiring of her consensual S&M relationship with her lover, and "evil" queen. She wants to break up. An impassioned monologue in a...