{"id":4528,"date":"2020-06-29T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/?post_type=cu_people&p=4528"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:56:34","slug":"kester-dyer","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/filmstudies\/people\/kester-dyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Kester Dyer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kester Dyer (he\/him) is a settler scholar whose work focusses on Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, Canadian, and Indigenous film and media, ecocinema, and film genres, as well as on decolonial and research-creation approaches to film and media. Kester is interested in supervising graduate students and postdocs working in the above-mentioned areas.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dyer\u2019s current book project titled Otherworldly Incursions: The Supernatural in Qu\u00e9bec Cinema<\/em> is supported by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant and comprises a broad exploration of the Qu\u00e9bec film corpus since the 1990s. This project analyzes how supernatural tropes across genres reveal key information about the Qu\u00e9bec social imaginary\u2019s struggle to delineate relationships between historically dominant and more marginalized groups, including Indigenous peoples and immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In parallel, a significant part of Dyer\u2019s work revolves around research-creation. He was awarded the Film Studies Association of Canada\u2019s Gerald Pratley Award for his research on Wapikoni Mobile<\/strong><\/a>, a unique transportable production initiative aimed at emerging Indigenous filmmakers. In his ensuing collaboration with Wapikoni, he co-founded (with Liz Miller, Communication Studies, Concordia University) the Circle Visions<\/strong><\/a> community-building project. This initiative, supported by several SSHRC grants since 2016, features an annual cross-platform media-making and film programming Summer Institute<\/strong><\/a> for Indigenous filmmakers. As part of this project, emerging Indigenous filmmakers from various communities have participated in workshops at both Concordia and Carleton Universities, focussing on different media platforms and techniques, including animation (sand and paper, rotoscoping), drawing on film, experimental video, podcasting, sound recording and design, documentary, underwater camerawork, projection mapping, using green screen and drones, 360-degree and VR filmmaking, and other approaches. Through these workshops, emerging Indigenous artists have developed a range of skills and generated their own short video artworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two most recent production-focussed iterations of our Summer Institute in partnership with Wapikoni Mobile took place at Carleton University in August 2023 and 2024. These workshops involved 15 emerging Indigenous filmmakers, numerous staff, faculty, and student collaborators from across different departments, as well as special guests and local community collaborators such The Asinabka<\/a> <\/strong>Indigenous Film and Media Festival and Ottawa\u2019s Digital Arts Resource Center (DARC<\/strong><\/a>). It was also supported by Carleton\u2019s Centre for Indigenous Support and Community Engagement (CISCE<\/strong><\/a>), Research Centre for Music, Sound, and Society in Canada (MSSC<\/strong><\/a>), Teaching and Learning Services Media Production (TLS<\/strong><\/a>), the Certificate in Journalism in Indigenous Communities (CJIIC<\/strong><\/a>) at Carleton, and the Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Co-authored with Michelle Smith, Pasha Partridge, M\u00e9lina Quitich-Niquay, and Liz Miller. \u201cDecolonizing Documentary Spaces: Enacting Care-full Methods within Educational Institutions.\u201d Journal of Environmental Media<\/em>. Forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNationhood, Otherness and Decoloniality: Time and Space in Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Renouveau.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Journal of Cinema and Media Studies\u00a0<\/em>64.5, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA Transportable\/Transnational Cinema: Wapikoni Mobile.\u201d Teaching<\/em> Migration in Literature, Film and Media. <\/em>Edited by Masha Salazkina and Yumna Siddiqi. The Modern Language Association of America, 2025. 85-101.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAngry Inuk<\/em><\/strong>, Listening to Science, and the Perpetuation of the Climate Crisis in Film<\/strong><\/a>.\u201d Canadian Journal of Film Studies <\/em>32.2 (Fall 2023): 7-34.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cScience Fiction, National Rebirth, and Messianism in Un 32 ao\u00fbt sur terre.<\/em>\u201d ReFocus: The Films of Denis Villeneuve. <\/em>Edited by Jeri English and Marie Pascal. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 23-40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnticipating the Colonial Apocalypse: Jeff Barnaby\u2019s Blood Quantum<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.\u201d Pandemic Media: Preliminary Notes Toward an Inventory<\/em>. Edited by Laliv Melamed, Vinzenz Hediger and Philipp Keidl. Meson Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLandscape, Trauma, and Identity: Simon Lavoie\u2019s Le torrent<\/em>.\u201d A Cinema of Pain: Essays on Quebec\u2019s Nostalgic Screen. <\/em>Edited by Liz Czach and Andr\u00e9 Loiselle. Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cL\u00e9olo<\/em>\u2019s Fantasized Italy: Family Romance and Accented Cinema in Qu\u00e9bec.\u201d Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies<\/em>. 5.1 (Jan 2017): 47-64.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIndigenous Cinema, Hamlet<\/em>, and Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Melancholia<\/strong><\/a>.\u201d In the Balance: Indigeneity, Performance, Globalization<\/em>. Edited by Helen Gilbert, J. D. Phillipson, and Michelle H. Raheja. Liverpool University Press, 2017. 105-122.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab Le \u2018refus\u2019 dans la t\u00e9l\u00e9s\u00e9rie Mohawk Girls <\/em>de Tracey Deer. \u00bb T\u00e9l\u00e9 en s\u00e9ries<\/em>. Edited by J-O Allard, E. Despr\u00e9s, S. Harel, M.-C. Lambert-Perreault. Montreal: \u00c9ditions XYZ, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest Editor with Fulvia Massimi and Andr\u00e9e Lafontaine of \u201cLocating the Intimate Within the Global: Xavier Dolan, Queer Nations and Qu\u00e9bec Cinema<\/strong><\/a>\u201d for Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies <\/em>4.2 (March 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab Miracles, mythes, cin\u00e9ma : La vraie nature de Bernadette <\/em>et The Butcher Boy<\/em>. \u00bb Le Qu\u00e9bec et l\u2019Irlande : Culture, histoire, identit\u00e9. <\/em>Edited by Simon Jolivet, Linda Cardinal, Isabelle Matte. Qu\u00e9bec City: \u00c9ditions du Septentrion, 2014. 166-196.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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