Nathan Adler

History

Nathan Adler is an artist, writer, editor and filmmaker. He the author of Wrist and Ghost Lake (Kegedonce Press) and co-editor of Bawaajigan ~ Stories of Power (Exile Editions). Adler has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, is a first-place winner of the Aboriginal Writing Challenge and a recipient of a Hnatyshyn Reveal award for Literature. He is Jewish and Anishinaabe, and a member of Lac Des Mille Lacs First Nation.

Movies

Gaawiin Gego
Gaawiin Gego
Director
"Gaawiin Gego" is based on a rhyme in Ojibwe that my great aunt taught me, the lyrics reference the blues and a Nina Simone song. The audio track is layered over top of found video footage from Lac Des Mille Lacs, which is the lake beside our Reserve. The editing uses compositing and other techniques to muck around with the footage and build a visual narrative that has themes of Ojibwe cosmology, water and land, the afterlife, the underworld/and skyworld, connection and disconnection to home/homelands/territory and displacement.
Sexy Highland Stream
Sexy Highland Stream
Writer
In appreciation of the eponymous stream, this poem is a love letter to the beauty found in nature. Written and spoken in English and Anishinaabemowin.
Sexy Highland Stream
Sexy Highland Stream
Music
In appreciation of the eponymous stream, this poem is a love letter to the beauty found in nature. Written and spoken in English and Anishinaabemowin.
Sexy Highland Stream
Sexy Highland Stream
Editor
In appreciation of the eponymous stream, this poem is a love letter to the beauty found in nature. Written and spoken in English and Anishinaabemowin.
Sexy Highland Stream
Sexy Highland Stream
Director
In appreciation of the eponymous stream, this poem is a love letter to the beauty found in nature. Written and spoken in English and Anishinaabemowin.
Keemooch
Keemooch
Editor
A short film on the subject of Indigenous Love. What is (romantic) love? And what does it mean to you? Eight couples share their thoughts.
Keemooch
Keemooch
Director
A short film on the subject of Indigenous Love. What is (romantic) love? And what does it mean to you? Eight couples share their thoughts.