TJ Cuthand
TJ Cuthand was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1978, and grew up in Saskatoon. Since 1995 he has been making short experimental narrative videos and films about sexuality, madness, Queer identity and love, and Indigeneity, which have screened in festivals internationally, including the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, Mix Brasil Festival of Sexual Diversity in Sao Paolo, ImagineNATIVE in Toronto, Ann Arbour Film Festival, Images in Toronto, Berlinale in Berlin, New York Film Festival, Outfest,and Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. His work has also exhibited at galleries including the Remai in Saskatoon, The National Gallery in Ottawa, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, MoMA in New York, and The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Film and Video at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2005, and his Masters of Arts in Media Production at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2015. He has made commissioned work for Urban Shaman and Videopool in Winnipeg, Cinema Politica in Montreal, VIMAF in Vancouver, and Bawaadan Collective in Canada. In 2020 he completed working on a 2D video game called A Bipolar Journey based on his experience learning and dealing with his bipolar disorder. It can be found here. He has also written three feature screenplays and has performed at Live At The End Of The Century in Vancouver, Queer City Cinema’s Performatorium in Regina, and 7a*11d in Toronto. In 2017 he won the Hnatyshyn Foundation’s REVEAL Indigenous Art Award. He is a Whitney Biennial 2019 artist. He has made 32 videos and films and counting. Currently he has a feature film in development. He is a non-binary Butch boy who uses He/Him pronouns. He is of Plains Cree and Scots descent, a member of Little Pine First Nation, and currently resides in Toronto, Canada.
Less Lethal Fetishes
as uncreditedCuthand explores a confusing new gas mask fetish and confronts the feelings associated with...
Movie pageDreams of Sunlight Through Trees
as SelfMiddle-aged Theo documents life after starting hormones, as ongoing news headlines continue to...
Movie pageWoman Dress
as uncreditedPre-contact, a Two Spirit person named Woman Dress travels the Plains, gathering and sharing...
Movie pageSight
as Self (voice)Super 8 footage layered with Sharpie marked lines and circles obscuring the image illustrates...
Movie pageReclamation
as uncreditedReclamation is a documentary futurism short about three Indigenous survivors left behind on...
Movie page2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com
as Host2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com queers and indigenizes traditional dating site advertisements....
Movie pageBoi Oh Boi
as SelfAfter a long period in life identifying as a Butch Lesbian, Cuthand considers transitioning to...
Movie page2-Spirit Introductory Special $19.99
as uncreditedNew to the 2 Spirit lifestyle? Want to talk to someone in the spirit and the flesh instead of...
Movie pageJust Dandy
as uncreditedInvited to speak at an Indigenous Revolutionary Meeting, the narrator describes an intimate...
Movie pageLessons In Baby Dyke Theory
as uncreditedIn 1995 when Thirza Cuthand was 16 she felt like the only lesbian at her Saskatoon high school....
Movie pageThrough the Looking Glass
as AliceHalf-breed Alice attempts to become queen and struggles with the Red Queen and the White Queen's...
Movie pageHelpless Maiden Makes an "I" Statement
as Helpless MaidenA helpless maiden is tiring of her consensual S&M relationship with her lover, and "evil" queen....
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