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Visiting Artist Film Screening: ENDLESS COOKIE

EVENT LOCATION:
Carbon Arc Cinema (1747 Summer Street)

EVENT DATE & TIME
October 3, 2025 6:30 pm

Event Details

NSCAD’s Visiting Artist Program is proud to present a screening and in-person artist talkback with Seth & Peter Scriver and their film Endless Cookie in partnership with Carbon Arc Cinema. This event is possible through the generous support of NSCAD University and the Dalglish Family Foundation.
 
Endless Cookie is based on true stories told by Peter, a mixed race (Indigenous and white) resident of the Shamattawa First Nation in Manitoba, with animations by Seth; a white Toronto-based artist, director, and half brother to Peter through their shared white father.
 
At the heart of the film is the relationship with each other and to the family as a whole. Wanting to engage with the complexity of that relationship by speaking about race and identity in a frank way that is both personal and political. Peter’s stories explore life in Shamattawa in its comical and fraught aspects, both within the natural landscape and the ongoing colonial project. The film documents & animates Peter’s experiences as well as those of the family in Toronto.
 
NSCAD students can attend for free with a valid NSCAD ID.

About the Artists

Pete Scriver’s artist practice is foremost a story teller but he is also a self-taught carver and writer. He was born in Shamattawa First Nations in 1961 and at age 12 he moved to downtown Toronto. After schooling and working in the city for a few years, he moved back up to his hometown Shamattawa First Nations, where at age 30 he started a family and became known as a skilled hunter and trapper. After his third child he was named Chief of Shamattawa first nations. On the day he was elected he had fallen through ice on his skidoo. Once they pulled him out, they told him that he had been voted in and needed to be sworn in immediately. He ended up doing the whole ceremony frozen shut in his snowsuit.

Seth Scriver is a Toronto based, director, writer and artist. His Second Feature length animation “Endless Cookie” Co-Directed with his half Brother Peter Scriver Premiered at Sundance 2025 and has won multiple awards including, the Grand Prix in Annecy France, The Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki festival in Greece, and the Hot Docs People Choice award. The film explores the complex bond between two half brothers, one Indigenous, one white, spanning bustling 1980s Toronto to the present day isolated First Nations community of Shamattawa. Seth’s first feature animation “ASPHALT WATCHES,” co- created with Shayne Ehman, won best Canadian first feature at TIFF 2013. Seth is also an accomplished visual artist, working in many mediums. Seth is captivated by exploring compelling characters and real-life tales, especially those that explore activities and histories that exist on the margins of capitalist culture through non-narrative works in Canadian comics.