Hogtown Homos

Highlights from the program of local shorts at the Inside Out festival... There was a number of Kent Monkman fans in the audience, including ourselves. His new film Robin's Hood is a bit of a curve ball. As in his previous works, Monkman adopts the silent era treatment for a camp critique of colonialism. But whereas there is a reversal of power in those films that is easy to laugh with, doing so in this one implicates the audience in a unsettling but poignant way. Lesley Loksi Chan's Compost Mon Amour is a smart blend of humour and pathos. The stylish DIY aesthetic complements the blurring of fact and fiction nicely.