Bio
Recent Projects
According to the Order of Time
Ashes to ashes
Spring Passage
Signal, Noise
Xʷəyeyət (Iona Beach) Rubbings
X̱á7elcha (Lynn Creek) Watergrams
Curation
XINEMA
DIM Cinema (w/ Iris Film Collective)
CV
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XINEMA [zin-em-a] is an artist-run experimental film series and lab founded and based on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations ("Vancouver", BC). They began operating in 2022 in VIFF Centre's 41-seat Studio Theatre, with a focus on BC-based and connected media artists, stringing emerging and established artists together into monthly thematic programs. Housed in the Norquay Park Fieldhouse, XINEMA now connects local and international artists through ongoing screenings, workshops, and related events in diverse spaces and regions.
Their priorities are to remain low-barrier and platform underrepresented artists and media forms, connecting cinemakers and cinephiles of various backgrounds, disciplines, and career levels. Submissions of films of any year or medium, and proposals for workshops and curatorial collaborations are accepted on an ongoing basis.
Gordon co-founded XINEMA with Celina de Leon, and is now one of seven members who share curatorial, operational, and event-coordination duties.
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(see cv for full)
Selected Solo-curated:
2024 - N Dimensional Space, experimental film program for XINEMA + UNIT/PITT Society for Arts and Critical Awareness, in conjunction with the Gravity wins, Entropy rules Exhibition, Vancouver, BC
2025 - Night Visions, experimental film program for XINEMA, in collaboration with Iris Film Collective, KW Studios, Vancouver, BC
2024 - Elements of Dying, experimental film program for XINEMA, Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NYC
Selected Co-curated:
2026 – Controlled Demolition, experimental film program and workshop for XINEMA, programmed with guest programmer Dominick Rivers, XINEMA’s Fieldhouse, Vancouver, BC
2025 - Unholy Inheritance, experimental film program for XINEMA, guest programmed with XINEMA member Joni Schinkel for the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF), Dave Barber Cinematheque, Winnipeg, MB
2024 - Light grows wild, experimental film program for XINEMA + UNIT/PITT, co-curated with XINEMA member Joni Schinkel, in conjunction with the to carve without cutting exhibition, Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, Vancouver, BC
2023 - The Pulse of the Screen, experimental film program for XINEMA, curated in partnership with The Polygon Gallery, co-curated with XINEMA member Celina de Leon, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Selected Coordinated:
2026 – Holos Gramma, holography exhibition, shadow puppetry workshop, and laser/shadow puppet performance by Eric Leiser for XINEMA, XINEMA’s Fieldhouse, Vancouver, BC
2026 – Fur Film Vol. 2: mirror mirror, media exhibition by ЯeaRflex for XINEMA, XINEMA’s Darkroom, Vancouver, BC
2025 - I’m planting a garden in my screen, media installation by Eric Tkaczyk for XINEMA, XINEMA’s Fieldhouse Garden, Vancouver, BC
Photos by Mateo Paredes Heidemann