COMMISSIONS . COLLABORATIONS . CURATORIAL (selection)
2024 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE - POETRY FILMS
Don McKay reads "Rhizosphere" from Lurch
George McWhirter and Homero Aridjis read "The Jaguar" from Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence
Ishion Hutchinson reads "XXXVI" from School of Instructions
Ann Lauterbach reads "Hand (Giotto)" from Door
Amelia M. Glaser, Yuliya Ilchuk, and Halyna Kruk read "human warmth"
Jorie Graham reads "The VR" from To 2040
2024 CANADIAN FIRST BOOK PRIZE
Maybe It's Now / Heather McHugh
2023 HEATHER MCHUGH POETRY
Past Hymn / Heather McHugh
Fast Fix / Heather McHugh
Heather McHugh / On Parole
By Your Leave / Heather McHugh
Ocean Vuong reads from Time Is a Mother
2023 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
Roger Reeves reads from Best Barbarian
Susan Musgrave reads from Exculpatory Lilies
Robyn Creswell and Iman Mersal read from The Threshold
Ada LimΓ³n reads from The Hurting Kind
2023 PROJECT SPACE FESTIVAL JUΓREZ
Curator and International Film Programmer
Emily Riddle reads from The Big Melt
2023 CANADIAN FIRST BOOK PRIZE
Poet Douglas Kearney reads from Sho
2022 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
Poet Ed Roberson reads from Asked What Has Changed
Sharon Dolin and Gemma Gorga read from Late to the House of Words
Poet Liz Howard reads from Letters in a Bruised Cosmos
Dzvinia Orlowsky and Natalka Bilotserkivets read from Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow
Poet Tolu Oloruntoba reads from The Junta of Happenstance
2021 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
Poet Yusef Komunyakaa reads from Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth
Poet Canisia Lubrin reads from The Dyzgraphxst
Poet Tracy K. Smith reads from My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree
Poet Yusuf Saadi reads from Pluviophile
Victoria Chang reads "Oxygen" from ππππ©
Poet Valzhyna Mort reads from Music for the Dead and Resurrected
2021 INTERNATIONAL DAWN CHORUS DAY
International Dawn Chorus Day | Clip | Berlinale 2021
International Dawn Chorus Day (2021) by John Greyson. Birds from six continents in an online video call share speculations about the deaths of Egyptian filmmaker Shady Habash and queer activist Sarah Hegazi. Together with other artists from around the world, such as AA Bronson, Richard Fung, Shu Lea Cheang and April Hickox, Shamriz contributed a video from their Glendale kitchen window. The film won the Teddy Award at the 2021 Berlinale. A trailer is here.
2020 THE REPRESENTATION OF HOUSE PLANTS IN ROMANTIC COMEDIES
A video collaboration with writer Matt Polzin.
2020 DEZβMON OMEGA FAIR
2020 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE - THREE CHANNEL INSTALLATION
2007 THE WHITMAN PROJECT - WITH HEINZ EMIGHOLZ
The Whitman Project (53 minutes, 2007) β Co-directed with Heinz Emigholz. In this split-screen film, performers RenΓ© Schoenenberger and Herbert Fritsch read from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman in German and English. This film is on DVD by Filmgalerie 451.