Artist:  Thirza Cuthand & Danielle Ratslaff
Title:  "Colonization: The second coming"
Year:  1996
Runtime:  3 minutes 33 seconds
Size:  13.8 MB
Summary:  Aliens have landed. Colonization? Again?! A first nations baby dyke throws away her vibrator.

About Thirza Cuthand & Danielle Ratslaff

Thirza Cuthand, a Cree filmmaker and artist from Saskatchewan, has made over ten videos since she was sixteen years old dealing with issues as far-ranging as sexual stereotypes, ageism, queer identity, race, and mass-mediated representations of the family from what she terms a “wry young halfbreed dyke” perspective. Her films include Colonization: The Second Coming (1996), Working Baby Dyke Theory: The Diasporic Impact of Cross-Generational Barriers (1997), Bisexual Wannabe (1997), Untouchable (1998), Helpless Maiden Makes an “I” Statement (1999), Through the Looking Glass (1999), and Anhedonia (2001). Helpless Maiden Makes an “I” Statement was the co-winner of the Akau Best Lesbian Canadian Short in 2000 and was the youngest filmmaker featured in the Directors Series at the Inside-Out Festival in 2001. Her artwork has appeared in, among other venues, the 1999 Peoples Plastic Princess exhibit at the Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff.