Dayna McLeod – media | performance | artist

3 unicorn-people each hold a dripping knife in front of themselves. They are each dressed in sequins against a black and red glitter background.

Queer/ing Horror: Video Essays at the Intersection of Horror and Queerness

A white woman's belly fills the screen in low lighting

Potbelly (video essay)

A split-screen image with a close-up of David Bowie's old character in The Hunger on top, and 'Blade Hunger' written in the fonts from the films The Hunger and Blade Runner' underneath.

Blade Hunger (video essay exercise)

Catherine Deneuve kisses an extremely old and unrecognizable David Bowie in The Hunger.

You said forever (video essay exercise)

3 white people stand side by side: the first, an older man in a yellow construction vest and white hardhat, the second, a middle-aged woman in a pink shirt with flat pink hair, and the third a middle-aged bald man in a black suit and tie.

FoUBARthes: Death of the Author

A life-sized doll with long blonde hair, a beige dress, and a blue, red, and white scarf tied in a bow, from the film M3GAN

TURN.OFF.

A sculptural figure with its arms outstretched as though ready to fly is behind a window covered in rain.

Real Artificial Intelligence (supercut)

A stack of pastel rectangles that are positioned in an uneven arrangement

Ways of Doing

A layered image of various scenes from Desert Hearts (1985).

Feathered Desert Wipes (video essay exercise)

Title reads: 'Thelma & Louise: Rape Culture, Mudflaps, and Vaginal Horizons' over Thelma and Louise taking a selfie with a Polaroid camera

Thelma & Louise: Rape Culture, Mudflaps, and Vaginal Horizons (video essay)

a grid of surveillance images of Dayna McLeod sleeping with a purple glowing circle in the middle of the array

watch me sleep (video essay)

A video installation from Dayna McLeod's In Dreams that shows 2 monitors, one with Dayna's head wearing a muppet like hat, and the other with a sinister shadow in a dark window.

In Dreams

Thelma and Louise standing in the moonlight with their backs facing us

interior monologue (video essay exercise)

DaynAI

DaynAI

A white woman with blonde hair and glasses shushing someone

Secrets (shh!) (micro video essay)

The Menopausalist title

The Menopausalist

Dayna McLeod superimposed on the body of one of the characters in Desert Hearts stroking the other main character's face

Speculative Queer Autoethnography: Desert Hearts (video essay)

s/mother love/r

s/mother love/r (video essay)

My Desert Hearts, trailer

My Desert Hearts…(video essay trailer)

Desert Hearts Montreal dreaming (video essay exercise)

Desert Hearts Montreal dreaming (video essay exercise)

Capitalism Machina (AI video essay)

Capitalism Machina (AI video essay)

A close up of Dayna McLeod as a cartoon

So I didn’t sleep very well last night

Nicholas Cage gets punched in the face in Wild at Heart

Wild at Heterosexuality (video essay)

Frame beside frame of Glinda descending in The Wizard of Oz and Wild at Heart

This World is Only Gonna Break Your Heart (video essay)