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Dana Claxton is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist in video, film, performance art, installations and photography.

Official Selection

Feature Films

Festival Year

2023

ISHI

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

2013

He Who Dreams

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

Part of He Who Dreams: Experimental Program.

Short Films

Festival Year

2019

Hunkpapa Woman in Black

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

2017

Stack

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

2009

Her Sugar Is?

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

Part of Non Compliance: Experimental Shorts Program.

2008

Gunplay 2

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

2005

Anwolek Regatta City

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

Part of Final Frontier: Experimental Shorts Program.

2004

Gunplay

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

Part of Trail Blazers: Experimental Shorts Program.

2004

The Hill

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

Closing Night Screening.

2003

10

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

Part of Experimental Program.

2002

I Want To Know Why

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

Part of 3 Women Curators: Shelley Niro Program.

2002

3 Women Curators: Dana Claxton Program

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

2001

The People Dance

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

1999

Look Honey... A Guerilla Girl!

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

Silent film; no audio.

1999

Buffalo Bone China

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

1999

The Shirt

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

1999

I Want to Know Why

Executive Producer, Director, Writer

Digital + Interactive

Festival Year

2010

5

Artist

Artwork showcased on experimental website.

2001

Ablakela

Artist

Interactive CD ROM with performance work.

Exhibitions

Festival Year

2023

The Dreaming: Dana Claxton's Video Art

Artist

2017

Raise a flag: works from the Indigenous Art Collection (2000-2015)

Artist

2009

A Decade in Retrospect: Curated by Dana Claxton

Curator, Narrator

A dramatic program of 12 films that have been screened at the Festival in celebration of imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival's 10th anniversary.

Year-Round Programming

2025

Artist Spotlight Directory Retrospective Streaming | The People Dance

Director

A month-long free online streaming presentation, celebrating the launch of the Artist Spotlight Directory.

Events

2017

Insiders and Outsiders: Developing New Collaboration Models

Speaker

2009

In Conversation: The Evolution of Indigenous Filmmaking

Moderator

2005

When To Turn It Off: Presenting Sacred Ceremonies and Traditions

Panelist

2013

The Beat

Artist

This music event showed He Who Dreams on multiple screens during a performance by A Tribe Called Red.

imagineNative Team

2022

Moon Award Jury Panel

Juror