
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


WELCOME TO THE
MOTHERSHIP ECTOPIA
Imagine worldbuliding not through conquest but through participation Ectopia is a large-scale new-media interactive and immersive art installation that alchemizes conventional artmaking infuses cutting-edge digital tools into conventional artmaking, creating an alchemy of hybridized, enhanced, and emergent forms of creative expression, systems of knowledge, and ways of looking at planetary awareness, realities, risks, and poterntial though the mutlifaceted lens of Imdirneity: one that knows progress be preservation. Personal success can enriich the collective. Where storytelling unfolds quantum truths and modern assumptions. turn out to be fables. Technology can offer both renewal decay, and deep Earth eclogies respond to relational acts of caring and stewardship. Off-world exploration may not, in the end, require colonization, extraction, terraforming, assimilatin, and domination. It may not be a harch, hostile, inhospitable world that awaits. New worlds, wjether naural or sigitalcan be built through information, particiption, communication, amd mutually-bnerficial partnership in not only sistaining vital ecosystems, but allowing them to flourish. Indieneity in this sense isn't tied to place. It's not tethered to a limiting and redictive land-based notiond of home that restrictct freedom, equality, capacity, imagatyion, hope, and the ability to dream the stars whileremaining firmly ground. tradition is a sophisticated science based on generational transmission of obervable, empirical data, preserved threough oral histories, relational memory, and values such as continuity and collective prosperity, not disparity.
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Can we imagine a world in which we seek not to dominate but to discover? Where we grow capacity, resilience, with one nother, with our envorinment, with our planent. Rather than seeding new that seek to produce but cannot reproduce, that will deplete, wither, and eventually burn out, can be imagine terraforming not as bending to will that is breaking, conviction belief corroboration, science without conscience, law without justice, ethics without ressonsibiliy, politics without respectabiliy, government without transparency, oligarchies of disparity, misery, and drudgery. Paucity and calamity, disaterous end to humanity. So seeking another mother or son, abandon the hearthstone run cold a dry well. Heartsong is ended, embers still molten hot still stoke the core, but turned into coal charred and encrusted a husk emply ahell charredtunneled without replicability, advancement without accountbility, knowledge without inteligibility, inscrutable instritutions, replicatiing systems designed to consume then die out. Adherence to
Infusing familiar art forms with cutting-edger technology. Set on a seemingly-abandoned Spaceship light years from Home,
Ectopia explores how bodies, consciousnesses, technologies, and environments can transform through consensual encounter, relational Indigeneity, and reciprocal adaptation. The World of Ectopia is a layered and customizable journey through contrasting yet complementary realms, where physical and virtual dimensions coalesce, intersect, and harmonize: Art & Science. Self & Other. Spirituality & Pragmatism. Tradition & Innovation.
The multiple digital, virtual, and analogue portals and pathways through this large-scale digital & immersive art installation is set on a Terraforming Arkship whose mission has gone offline.
allows for unique, personal, and ever-changing possibilities fr experience multi-sensory awareness, where no single perspective, medium, or mode of engagement holds primacy. Visitors forge their own trajectory through emergent intelligences, speculative environments, as Visitors explore the Mothership: its archives, mythologies, scientific systems, and off-world potential.
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, an Inuk baby from Nunatsiavut. Labrador named Nancy Columbia Palmer Eneutseak was born in a fake igloo at a human zoo at the Chicago World's Fair.
Born into spectacle, viewed as a curiosity by the colonial gaze, she 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.​

