Shawna Dempsey

Shawna Dempsey Trailers

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Shawna Dempsey is a Canadian performance artist and filmmaker. Dempsey and her frequent collaborator, Lorri Millan, have been creating short and cutting feminist pieces since 1989.

Most Popular Shawna Dempsey Trailers

Total trailers found: 16

We're Talking Vulva Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

At long last, everything you've always wanted to know about "down there" but were afraid to ask. A tender tale wherein our heroine, Ms.

Lesbian National Parks and Services: A Force of Nature Trailer (2002)

01 January 2002

Lesbian National Parks and Services: A Force of Nature follows the intrepid Lesbian Rangers as they patrol, educate, and illustrate lesbian survival skills.

A Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

A Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke follows a big boned butch into skirmishes, drag, and the arms of a beautiful recruit.

Good Citizen: Betty Baker Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

Good Citizen: Betty Baker is a tongue-in-cheek mystery, full of unexpected twists. It features Betty, a civic-minded housewife who inhabits a cartoonish, 2-D, 1950s-inspired world, replete with narrow-minded peril.

Through the Looking Glass Trailer (1999)

07 August 1999

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

Vigilance Trailer (2014)

01 January 2014

In Vigilance, a woman is dragged through an empty field in scenario reminiscent of horror movies and news stories.

Calamity Trailer (2000)

01 January 2000

The Wild West heroine Calamity Jane roams through time. Excluded from history, she revels in lore. “I dreamed it better.

Lesbian National Parks and Services Presents: Endangered Species Trailer (2009)

01 January 2009

Lesbian National Parks and Services' Endangered Species are a series of public service announcements, created by the indefatigable Lesbian Rangers, who serve the lesbian wilds from dawn to dusk and well beyond.

Medusa Raw Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

Medusa Raw, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan’s first video, is a re-telling of the classical Medusa myth from the Medusa’s perspective.

Archaeology and You Trailer (2004)

24 November 2004

A five-part, site-specific installation and single-channel videotape. The piece manipulates shards of narrative into a meditation on the construction of self and culture through language.

Homogeneity Trailer (1998)

01 January 1998

Using the metaphor of suburban architecture, Homogeneity archly critiques the desire for conformity within the queer community.

Carpet Cleaners Trailer (2002)

23 May 2002

Amerika, Zed and Kyle are good friends until the excitingly undermedicated bitch goddess Trasha enters the frame, cutting Kyle off from his friends and their vacuous and unencumbered world of beer and porn.

Object/Subject of Desire Trailer (1993)

03 May 1993

This video tape is a triptych about love and desire.

Understanding Myself as an Amphibian Trailer (2026)

03 May 2026

This queer ecology documentary explores the sexual diversity of the wildlife around us. Director May Matchim draws connections between these incredible species and her own journey accepting her Transness.

What Does a Lesbian Look Like? Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

What Does a Lesbian Look Like? was a video created for Much Music, Canada's music video station. A fast-paced spoken word piece, it exposes all the common myths and stereotypes about lesbians, and revels in them!

The Bisexual Kingdom Trailer (1987)

01 January 1987

Girl meets girl, still likes boy, and all hell breaks loose.