Biography
Siku Allooloo is an Inuk/Haitian/Taíno filmmaker as well as an interdisciplinary artist, writer, decolonial advocate, and community builder from Yellowknife, NT, Canada (by way of Pond Inlet, Nunavut, and Haiti). Known for working with subject matter in a deeply layered and sensory way, Siku artistically reimagines conventional forms as imbued by her cultural traditions, oral histories, and land- based practice. She is most noted for her 2019 sealskin poem triptych, Akia and her 2022 experimental short film, SPIRIT EMULSION, (Best Canadian Short at Gimli International Film Festival, Prix de la Relève (Emerging Talent Award) at Festival International Présence Autochtone, two Filmmaker Awards at YKIFF 2022, and Honourable Mention, DOXA Documentary Short Award). Siku’s artwork has exhibited nationally in several groundbreaking Indigenous art exhibitions, and her writing has been published nationally and internationally (including The Guardian, Canadian Art Magazine, Truthout, and The Capilano Review). Siku has programmed for several film festivals, including BlackStar (2022), imagineNATIVE (2021) and Available Light (2021, 2022). Most recently, she co-curated the exhibition, Woven In: Indigenous Women’s Activism and Media, at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (Victoria, BC, 2022-2023).
As the founder and owner of Akia Films, Siku is currently leading development of a feature documentary film, INDÍGENA (a co-production with the National Film Board), as the writer, director and co-producer.