It was while studying architecture at the University of Manitoba that Winnipeg-based Métis artist Vermette began her experimental filmmaking practice, first producing a number of thrillingly original collage works that employ aspects of fiction, nonfiction, found footage assemblage, animation, and just about anything else you might think of. Vermette would achieve a new level of international attention with her 2021 feature debut—and first venture into narrative cinema—Ste. Anne, a collaboratively made, darkly funny slow burn drama inspired in part by Indigenous storytelling practices, in which Vermette stars as a woman returning to her eponymous hometown, and the daughter she abandoned there, after a four-year absence. A survey of the work of a shapeshifting and constantly questioning artist, whose restless curiosity has taken her far beyond the barriers of classical construction, in search of ways to reimagine and re-invigorate cinema.