The Nest: Feature Film Screening and Director Q&A
Tue. Jan. 27 02:30 PM
- Tue. Jan. 27 05:30 PM
The Centre for Research in Cultural Studies with the Departments of English, Indigenous Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and the Disability Studies program invite you to a public screening of the award-winning NFB film, The Nest, written and directed by University of Winnipeg graduate Julietta Singh. The screening will be followed by a virtual Q&A with the director which will be hosted by Dr. Aarzoo Singh from the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. The screening will be closed captioned and is free and open to the public.
Time: 2:30-5:30pm
Date: Jan 27, 2026
Location: EG Hall, University of Winnipeg (3rd floor of Centennial Hall, 515 Portage Avenue)
The Nest: At the end of her mother’s life, decolonial writer Julietta Singh returns to say goodbye to her haunted childhood home in Winnipeg, located just a few blocks south of the university. As she digs into the history of the house, she uncovers 140 years of forgotten matriarchs and political rebels she never knew. Singh teams up with acclaimed filmmaker Chase Joynt (Framing Agnes, No Ordinary Man) for a politically charged cross-community collaboration that deftly interweaves Indigenous, Deaf, Japanese and South Asian histories, all connected through the home. A reckoning with memory, matriarchy and the enduring legacies of silenced voices, the film questions who gets lost in the archives of history, and what we stand to gain by resurrecting them. The Nest transforms a single home from a place of siloed histories into a site of radical collective potential.
Dr. Julietta Singh (Director) is Professor of English and Stephanie Bennet-Smith Chair of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond. A postcolonial scholar and nonfiction writer, her work engages the enduring effects of colonization through attention to race, ecology, and inheritance. In addition to writing and co-directing The Nest, she is the author of three books: Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke UP, 2018). No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018), and The Breaks (Coffee House Press, 2018).
Dr. Aarzoo Singh (Q&A Moderator) is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her research focuses on the theoretical and experiential connections between storytelling, objects, locations, and displacement for the South Asian Diaspora. Her research was rewarded the Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman Junior Fellowship from 2014-2020 and she was a nominee for the Christopher Knapper Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2013. Her current research and teaching interests focus on reparative justice narratives, alternative epistemologies, affective and personal archives, and postcolonial subjectivity. She was interviewed on her research for the British Museum of Colonisation’s platform Paper Trails and her published work can be found in DisClosure: A Journal of Social Theory and in the forthcoming anthology Monsters and Monstrosity in Media (Vernon Press).
For more information about this event please contact the Centre for Research in Cultural Studies (CRiCS) at: crics@uwinnipeg.ca
