Ngaire Lyden-Elleray
Taha, Ua (One, Two)
Combining poetry, dance, and film, Taha, Ua (One, Two) navigates the grief of displacement, the kinship of community and the resistance of reconnection. The film explores what it means to be "home" when from an Indigenous diaspora perspective.
Directed and Written by Ngaire Lyden-Elleray
Director of Photography: Juliette Leach
Edited by Nushi Sharma
Performers: Annelie Wells, Nenaa’ikiizhikok Kinew Erdrich
Colourist: Tristan Ramos
Commissioned/In collaboration with FORM (Festival of Recorded Movement)
Ngaire Lyden-Elleray (she/they) is a filmmaker, director and writer. Coming from a mixed Pasifika and Indigenous background (Tongan, Mi’kmaq), storytelling has been an integral part of their life, and they are dedicated to creating and uplifting Indigenous and Queer voices and narratives. They grew up on the ancestral lands of the Wendat, Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Anishnabeg, Chippewa and Mississauga of Credit. They currently live on the unceded and traditional territories of the šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.