Dayna McLeod

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White gothic script text on a black background that reads Orlando Looks

Orlando Looks

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

Feathered Desert Wipes (video essay exercise)

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)

Thelma and Louise posing for a Polaroid camera outside a house in front of a car from the back

Thelma Louise: ‘every time they touch’ Supercut (vide essay exercise)

DaynAI

DaynAI

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)

Bet on Red

Place your bets on red (video essay exercise)

Caring is Anxious

Anxious Caring (video essay exercise)

A close up of Dayna McLeod as a cartoon

So I didn’t sleep very well last night

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)

Diane Ladd looking in a mirror in Wild at hear while smearing red lipstick all over her face. White text reads: outside the lines

outside the lines (video essay)

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