Skip to content
Short Ends

Short Ends

All things cinema.

Search
  • Who we are
  • Volumes
  • In Conversation
  • Festival Spotlights
  • Outtakes

Author: Elya Myers

Elya Myers is a researcher, writer, and creator based out of Montreal, Quebec. Having graduated with a Specialized BFA in Film Studies at Concordia University, her research interests orbit around anime, animation, as well as, race and representation across media. She has recently published research in a special edition of Being Black in Quebec on Indire called, Can We Talk? Employment and Representation in the Film Industry through the Black Community Resource Centre (BCRC). Her continued creative practice at Offscreen, Short Ends Collective, Noir Caesar, and other collaborations reflect these recurring subject(ivitie)s.
Phantasmagoria

Rendering the Dream in the Simulation: Paprika

1 Sep 20231 Sep 2023
Satoshi Kon’s animated film Paprika (2006) explores the phantasmagoric and fantastic between the blurred states of dreams and reality where the hyperreal, the uncanny, and the inexplicable manifest that link…
Festival Spotlights…

Festival Spotlight: Hot Docs 2023

9 Jun 202328 Sep 2023
For the first time, Short Ends had the opportunity to attend the 2023 Hot Docs 30th Film Festival anniversary and we’ve collected a compelling short list of a variety of…
Music

Make A Joyful Noise: Musical Expression in Summer of Soul

1 Jun 20231 Jun 2023
A holler. A wail. A cry out. In harmony, the crowds riled up with a surge of energy. This was just the beginning of the line-up at the Harlem Cultural…
Habitats

Magical Realism & Felt Realities of Afro-Pessimism in Atlanta

1 Mar 20231 Mar 2023
Prolific American Black queer poet, Audre Lorde, once said in her collection Sister Outsider: Speeches and Essays, “For there are no new ideas. There only new ways of making them…
In Conversation

In Conversation: Miryam Charles, Reimagining Grief, and Spaces Inbetween in Cette Maison

28 Oct 202228 Sep 2023
Miryam Charles’ debut feature film Cette Maison had its premiere at the 2022 edition of Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal (FNC) on October 9th.  Over the past year, I…
Food

Food Anxieties and Futures in The Divine Fist of the North Star

1 Jul 20221 Jul 2022
The Divine Fist of the North Star (1983-88) is a kick-ass manga series later adapted into an anime (1984-88) that follows a young man named Kenshiro who carries the legacy…
Honour

Honouring Memory & Afrofuturist Legacies in Yasuke

1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022
In every review I’ve read of Netflix’s new release, Yasuke (LeSean Thomas 2021), none has been able to express the cosmic intertwining of friendship, loyalty, and love that spans across…
Into the Digital Age

Reconfiguring Mental Illness & Identity in Serial Experiments Lain 

1 Nov 202124 Feb 2022
CW: Suicide. I don’t need to stay in a place like this.  If you stay in a place like this…  you might not be able to connect. Serial Experiments Lain…
Small Town Stories

I see I: Roots Time

1 Sep 20211 Sep 2021
Often I have heard, “Myers dat name soun familiar... A yuh related tuh—?” and, “Yuh nuh wa fi guh dung tuh dat part of Jamaica. Di Myers name a luk…
Buddy Films

Sibling Friendships & Dog’s Breakfasts in Adventure Time

1 Jul 202130 Aug 2021
If you have siblings like mine, chances are that they were your first buddies. They are also the people you learned to navigate around, get along with through thick and…

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Follow Us

  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Who We Are
  • Write with Us
  • TIFF
  • FNC
  • Meet the team
  • RIDM
  • SPASM
  • Fantasia
  • Hot Docs
  • OIAF
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Short Ends
    • Join 30 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Short Ends
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...