Kaspar Saxena

The response of diasporic South Asian communities to the AIDS crisis is documented through interviews, information and a weaving of images. At the core of the videotape are the testimonials of artists and activists... gay, lesbian and straight; to the barriers and successes of organizing around AIDS. Photographer Sunil Gupta and professor & activist Himani Bannerji are amongst the interviewed subjects.

A scientific report about a bizarre, new creature and its life cycle, told from a child's point of view. On one level it is amusing, on another, the new creature can be seen as a symbol of healing the fragmentation of living with and within different worlds.

Based on texts from Saxena's friend and set in Moosejaw during winter, this is a story about two friends and a pet fish. Bindi the Fish is one story in a series of four, in a half hour animated special entitled “Chocolate is an Indian Word”, produced in Saskatchewan

What it is like to be small, brown with a big imagination and growing up on the Canadian prairies.

A shy person, frightened at social settings, makes several attempts to communicate and then succeeds in a bizarre and unusual way. Deliberately focusing on the one who rarely gets much attention and recognition; the theory is that inside every introvert there is an extrovert and vice versa, and that there are myriad ways of expressing human experience, not always through conventional channels.