Projects – Dayna McLeod

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)

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

Two people driving in a convertible and the sun is reflecting on the camera lens

landscape cameo (video essay exercise)

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

interior monologue (video essay exercise)

DaynAI

DaynAI

Three white men standing with their hands clasped in front of themselves dressed nicely against a blue, pink, and black abstract background.

This is Ourselves: An AI actor lip flap remix

2 white men, 1 bald, the other with thick brown hair and a goatee, in close-up framed in circles with green backgrounds on top of a blue background.

Green screen Template (An increasingly heated & snarky dialogue) with AI

A white woman with blonde hair and glasses shushing someone

Secrets (shh!) (micro video essay)

The Menopausalist title

The Menopausalist

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)