The selection of videos in Human Beyond a Cure, offer frank and poignant reflections on living in a culture that is simultaneously preoccupied with self-help and self-destruction. Cam Matamoros’ In Four Years earnestly takes on a practice of goal setting and positive self-talk, while Daniel Barrow’s Artist Statement exposes the meaninglessness of success and art stardom. Both Subtitled and We Belong Together illustrate the inextricable influence of pop culture on our desires for intimacy and connection. Hannah Jickling and Kevin Hegge challenge the hetero-normative status quo in Knee for All, which celebrates the taboo of asexuality and radical desire. Shana Moulton’s Whispering Pines #4 makes an unapologetic leap into the quagmire of consumption based ‘healing’ modalities and their aesthetics, and Nina Yuen’s Alison takes us deep into the woods, down deserted highways, and into the psyche of a lost woman. The program’s namesake Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond a Cure strings together a series of uneasy lullabies that neither assuage our fears of the world’s end, nor secure our hope in finding a cure for being human. - Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk

Artist Statement
Canada 2006/Director: Daniel Barrow. 5:20mins

In Four Years (adjectives and adverbs)
Canada 2007/Director: Cam Matamoros. 5mins

Whispering Pines #4
USA 2007/Director: Shana Moulton. 12mins
 
Subtitled
Canada 2004/Director: Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay. 2mins

Keeping Her Cool
Canada 2002/Director: Goody B. Wiseman. 3:50mins

Knee for All
Canada 2007/Director: Hannah Jickling & Kevin Hegge. 4mins

We Belong Together
Canada/USA 2007/Director: Leah Glushien & Maiko Tanaka. 3:45mins

Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure
Canada/USA 2006/Director: Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby. 15mins