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

Maybe It's Now / Heather McHugh

Ocean Vuong reads from Time Is a Mother

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

2023 HEATHER MCHUGH POETRY

Past Hymn / Heather McHugh

Fast Fix / Heather McHugh

Heather McHugh / On Parole

By Your Leave / Heather McHugh

2023 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE

Poet Douglas Kearney reads from Sho

Roger Reeves reads from Best Barbarian

Susan Musgrave reads from Exculpatory Lilies

Robyn Creswell and Iman Mersal read from The Threshold

Emily Riddle reads from The Big Melt

Ada Limรณn reads from The Hurting Kind

2023 CANADIAN FIRST BOOK PRIZE

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 ๐™Š๐™—๐™ž๐™ฉ

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 DEZโ€™MON OMEGA FAIR

2020 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE - THREE CHANNEL INSTALLATION

2007 THE WHITMAN PROJECT - WITH HEINZ EMIGHOLZ

The Whitman Project (53 minutes, 2007) โ€“ Co-directed with Heinz Emigholz. In this split-screen film, performers Renรฉ Schoenenberger and Herbert Fritsch read from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman in German and English. This film is on DVD by Filmgalerie 451.