Gisèle Gordon is a settler media artist and writer based in Dish With One Spoon Territory (Toronto, Canada). Her solo work includes the feature-length documentary The Tunguska Project (Best Feature Length Film at the Planet in Focus Film Festival, 2005), the video installations Crosscurrent (2013 Moscow Biennale), and projection/performance piece The Land that Dreams.

With her long-time collaborator, Cree artist Kent Monkman, she created the sound and light installation, Iskootāo (Nuit Blanche, 2010) and over a dozen short films that have screened at TIFF, Sundance, and Berlin. She is a former programmer of Hot Docs and imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Gordon co-wrote, with Monkman, the exhibition text for Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience (Nominated for the 2017 Ontario Association of Art Gallery Awards for Curatorial Art Writing). She wrote the exhibition text for Monkman’s Being Legendary exhibition (ROM 2022-23) and most recently co-wrote, with Monkman, the two volume epic, The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island, McClelland & Stewart Nov/Dec 2022.

Filmography

As Director

• Robin’s Hood, experimental drama, 6:00, 2007 (Co-director with Kent Monkman), also Director of Photography
• Group of Seven Inches, experimental drama, 7:00, 2005 (Co-director with Kent Monkman)
• The Tunguska Project, documentary, 82:32, 2005
• Girls With Opinions, documentary, 3:30, 2001
• Sugar, documentary, 10:00, 2001

As Producer/Creative Collaborator

• Dance to the Berdashe, five channel installation, 12:00, directed by Kent Monkman, 2008, also Super 8 photography
• Shooting Geronimo, drama, 11:00, directed by Kent Monkman, 2007, also Director of Photography
• Blood River, drama, 23:00, directed by Kent Monkman, 2000
• A Nation is Coming, experimental dance film, 22:00, directed by Kent Monkman, 1996