An Indigenous Female-Led Media Production Company
SOVEREIGN STORYTELLING
the more we tell the story, the more the story tells us, and the more the story is told
​​Based on the Tsawout Reserve Lands forming part of the Ancestral and Unceded Territories of the LÉ™k̓ʷəŋən-speaking and WSÁNEĆ Peoples of Vancouver Island, Tooth & Nail Pictures is an Indigenous, female-led multi-media production company founded by Eva Grant, an Indigenous-Eurasian creator, filmmaker, digital designer, curator, writer, and public speaker. Eva's groundbreaking art pieces have been featured across Canada as well as Internationally, and include film, interactive installations and immersive media.
​Tooth & Nail’s projects are supported by the First People’s Cultural Council, the Sundance Institute, the National Film Board, the Canada Media Fund, the Indigenous Screen Office, Telus Storyhive, the National Screen Institute, the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the CBC, the Indigenous Curatorial Collective, Creative BC, the Canada Council for the Arts, imagineNATIVE, the BC Arts Council, and Vancouver Film Studios.
FEATURED PROJECTS
Set on an abandoned Spaceship light years from Home, Ectopia is a large-scale interactive and immersive art installation that explores how technology transforms and is transformed through reciprocity, continuity, and relational adaptation. Building worlds through consensus not conquest, Ectopia weaves traditional art-making and modern innovation into emergent forms in which physical and virtual realms coalesce, intersect, and harmonize.
Navigating the Mothership through multi-sensory virtual and analogue portals allows for unique, personal, and ever-changing experiences, Visitors chart their own course through the Mothership, encountering speculative environments and intelligences.
multi-sensory awareness, and non-linear storytelling
STARSEED - ARCHIVE - WORLD BUILDER - TIME BENDER
THE FIELD IS LISTENING ~WE ARE ATTUNED
NANCY
Historical Narrative | 12 Min
THE TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION
BUT FICTION IS NO STRANGER TO TRUTH
In 1893, Esther Eneutseak, a 15-year-old Inuk woman from Nunatsiavut, Labrador, gave birth to a baby girl inside an imitation igloo at the Chicago World's Fair "Eskimo Village," where she became its star attraction. A contest was held for the right to name this baby; the winner named her Nancy Columbia Eneutseak Palmer and she became the Fair's star attraction.
Born into spectacle, viewed as a curiosity by the colonial gaze, Nancy was named not by sacred ceremony but by contest for the right to confer her identity, assign her validity, and confine her place. But such cages were never meant to hold her.​
