TJ Cuthand

The Lost Art of the Future (2023)

In The Lost Art of the Future, Cuthand talks about artists he has known who passed away while living with HIV/AIDS and the art he wishes he had been able to see them make if their lifetimes had been longer. ...

13 Eggs (2022)

An original video diary documenting the director's efforts to have artificial insemination. Cuthand describes his desire to have children of his own and the difficult journey he must take to have them, a journey that is also closely tied to his membership ...

Medicine and Magic (2022)

Neurotransmitting (2021)

TJ Cuthand and his mother Ruth Cuthand have a candid conversation about TJ's last hospitalization for Bipolar Disorder in 2007. While TJ only knew his manic episode from the inside, Ruth had to deal with caregiving decisions and trying to find help. While ...

Kwêskosîw: She Whistles (2021)

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 power that may help solve the mystery of her mother's disappearance. ...

Medicine Bundle (2020)

Weaving together family narratives and current thoughts on the pandemic, the ethics of representation, and the nature of the sacred, Thirza Cuthand discusses a medicine bundle which was used to heal the artist's great-great-grandfather from a Gatling gunsh ...

Woman Dress (2019)

Pre-contact, a Two Spirit person named Woman Dress travels the Plains, gathering and sharing stories. Featuring archival images and dramatized re-enactments, this film shares a Cuthand family oral story, honouring and respecting Woman Dress without imposin ...

Less Lethal Fetishes (2019)

Cuthand explores a confusing new gas mask fetish and confronts the feelings associated with being implicated in tear gas manufacturing and chemical companies through her art practice. Beautiful and complicated, this video explores the artists role in large ...

Extractions (2018)

A personal film about Canada's extraction industry and its detrimental effects on the land and Indigenous peoples. This film parallels resource extraction with the booming child apprehension Industry. As the filmmaker reviews her life and how these Industr ...

Reclamation (2018)

Reclamation is a documentary futurism short about three Indigenous survivors left behind on Earth after white people leave a destroyed planet behind for Mars. While seemingly dystopic, this film is filled with hope and humor and looks at potential solution ...

2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com (2017)

2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com queers and indigenizes traditional dating site advertisements. Using a Butch NDN 'lavalife" lady (performed by director Thirza Cuthand), 2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com seduces the viewer into 2 Spirit "snagging and shacking up" ...

The Longform Lesbian Census (2017)

Two Longform Lesbian Census takers poll their community to find out important statistics on tops, bottoms, and switches, butches and femmes, cats and dogs, how couples are planning to conceive their children, and more crucial lesbian data! Or they are just ...

2-Spirit Introductory Special $19.99 (2015)

New to the 2 Spirit lifestyle? Want to talk to someone in the spirit and the flesh instead of reading The Spirit and the Flesh? We have just the service for you! Call now and for only $19.99 a month you can get instant unlimited telephone access to tradi ...

Sight (2013)

Super 8 footage layered with Sharpie marked lines and circles obscuring the image illustrates the story of the filmmaker's experience with temporary episodes of migraine related blindness and her cousin's self induced blindness later in life. Paralleling t ...

Just Dandy (2013)

Invited to speak at an Indigenous Revolutionary Meeting, the narrator describes an intimate encounter with an Evil Colonizing Queen which led to Turtle Island's contraction of an invasive European flora. ...

Boi Oh Boi (2012)

After a long period in life identifying as a Butch Lesbian, Cuthand considers transitioning to male. After a considerable amount of thought and discussion, Cuthand changed her mind and decided to remain a Butch Lesbian. Explaining her decision, she touches ...

Homelands (2010)

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 about being mixed race. ...

You Are a Lesbian Vampire (2008)

In the dark night of a prairie city, a vampire considers her future with a fetching mortal. But requiring blood for sustenance brings a host of problems to the relationship. ...

Madness in Four Actions (2008)

This video was made to talk about abuse in psychiatry, which I experienced in Montreal. However I chose to let others words explain my feelings on the topic. The visuals are recontextualized shots from The Miracle Worker, starring Patty Duke as Helen Kelle ...

Love & Numbers (2004)

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 colonialism. Spliced in between her monologues are the binary codes of all the psychiatric drugs she has t ...

Anhedonia (1999)

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 passion in another. Depression and suicide are met head on with Cuthand's honesty. Anhedonia shocks people i ...

Manipulation/Dictation (1999)

"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. ...

Through the Looking Glass (1999)

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

Helpless Maiden Makes an "I" Statement (1999)

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 dungeon with our heroine in wrist cuffs quickly becomes an emotionally messy ending in flames. ...

Untouchable (1998)

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. It involves ice cream trucks and bowie knives. ...

Working Baby Dyke Theory: The Diasporic Impact of Cross-Generational Barriers (1997)

A teenage lesbian's attempts to form friendships with older lesbians leads her on a disturbing ride through the ageist terrain of the lesbian community. ...

Bisexual Wannabe (1997)

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

Earth Flesh (1997)

Sounds and visuals give a "physical" overview of the Land Question, and Cuthand turns the question around regarding what it means to own or be owned. ...

Colonization: The Second Coming (1996)

In this sci-fi tale of conquest and empowerment, sex-toys become beacons for a new species of colonizers. ...

Lessons In Baby Dyke Theory (1995)

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 visibility in her high school coupled with the lack of representation of queer teenagers in the 90's made her make ...

Woman Dress (2019)

Pre-contact, a Two Spirit person named Woman Dress travels the Plains, gathering and sharing stories. Featuring archival images and dramatized re-enactments, this film shares a Cuthand family oral story, honouring and respecting Woman Dress without imposin ...

Less Lethal Fetishes (2019)

Cuthand explores a confusing new gas mask fetish and confronts the feelings associated with being implicated in tear gas manufacturing and chemical companies through her art practice. Beautiful and complicated, this video explores the artists role in large ...

Reclamation (2018)

Reclamation is a documentary futurism short about three Indigenous survivors left behind on Earth after white people leave a destroyed planet behind for Mars. While seemingly dystopic, this film is filled with hope and humor and looks at potential solution ...

2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com (2017)

2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com queers and indigenizes traditional dating site advertisements. Using a Butch NDN 'lavalife" lady (performed by director Thirza Cuthand), 2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com seduces the viewer into 2 Spirit "snagging and shacking up" ...

2-Spirit Introductory Special $19.99 (2015)

New to the 2 Spirit lifestyle? Want to talk to someone in the spirit and the flesh instead of reading The Spirit and the Flesh? We have just the service for you! Call now and for only $19.99 a month you can get instant unlimited telephone access to tradi ...

Sight (2013)

Super 8 footage layered with Sharpie marked lines and circles obscuring the image illustrates the story of the filmmaker's experience with temporary episodes of migraine related blindness and her cousin's self induced blindness later in life. Paralleling t ...

Just Dandy (2013)

Invited to speak at an Indigenous Revolutionary Meeting, the narrator describes an intimate encounter with an Evil Colonizing Queen which led to Turtle Island's contraction of an invasive European flora. ...

Boi Oh Boi (2012)

After a long period in life identifying as a Butch Lesbian, Cuthand considers transitioning to male. After a considerable amount of thought and discussion, Cuthand changed her mind and decided to remain a Butch Lesbian. Explaining her decision, she touches ...

Through the Looking Glass (1999)

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

Helpless Maiden Makes an "I" Statement (1999)

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 dungeon with our heroine in wrist cuffs quickly becomes an emotionally messy ending in flames. ...

Lessons In Baby Dyke Theory (1995)

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 visibility in her high school coupled with the lack of representation of queer teenagers in the 90's made her make ...