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Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver: Endless Cookie
Thursday, September 25, 6:00 p.m. CT
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street
Faculty can reserve tickets for their classes here.

Followed by a conversation with Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver and audience Q&A.

All CATE events will have real-time captioning (CART). The Gene Siskel Film Center is ADA accessible and its theaters are equipped with hearing loops. For other accessibility requests, please visit saic.edu/access or write cate@saic.edu

PROGRAM

Winner of the Contrechamp Grand Prix at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Seth and Peter Scriver’s freewheeling animated documentary follows Peter—an artist and storyteller from the Shamattawa First Nation—through a series of shaggy dog tales about growing up with his white half‑brother Seth in 1980s Toronto, and later raising his own children in the remote north. Comedic adventures collide with darker accounts of policing and land theft, creating a profound portrait of family, place, and the long shadow of Canada’s First Nations policies.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Seth Scriver is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose work—across animation, comics, sculpture, and drawing—examines the absurd, the everyday, and the marginal. His award-winning films have screened at major festivals and institutions around the world, including the Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival (Park City), Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Doc Fortnight at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival (Toronto), and imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (Toronto), among many others. His debut feature, Asphalt Watches (2013), co-directed with Shayne Ehman, won Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. His second feature, Endless Cookie (2025), co-directed with Peter Scriver, won the Contrechamp Jury Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Scriver’s work has also been exhibited at YYZ Artists’ Outlet in Toronto and ADA Gallery in Richmond, and he has twice been nominated for the Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning for his comics Stooge Pile and Flexible Tube with Stink Lines.

Seth Scriver Wikipedia Page

Peter (Pete) Scriver is a storyteller, carver, and writer based in the Shamattawa First Nation, Manitoba. His film Endless Cookie (2025), co-directed with Peter Scriver, won the Contrechamp Jury Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Born in Shamattawa in 1961, Peter moved to downtown Toronto at the age of 12. After several years of school and work in the city, he returned north to his home community, where he started a family and became known as a skilled hunter and trapper. He was elected chief of Shamattawa First Nation shortly after the birth of his third child. On the day of his election, he fell through the ice while riding his skidoo. Once election officials pulled him out, they informed him that he had won and needed to be sworn in immediately. He ended up doing the entire ceremony frozen shut in his snowsuit. A few years later, Pete became the Magistrate of Shamattawa First Nation. After eight years in the position, the demands of raising his children and his exhaustion with the racism of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police led him to resign. He is currently a Canadian Ranger and maintenance worker at the nursing station in Shamattawa and the father of nine brilliant but rambunctious kids.

Endless Cookie Wikipedia Page

INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES

ARTICLES ABOUT SETH SCRIVER

‘Asphalt Watches’ Is the Most Glorious Animated Film About Hitchhiking Ever Made
Nadja Sayej | Vice | Sep 16, 2013

TIFF 2013 | Asphalt Watches (Shayne Ehman & Seth Scriver, Canada)—Vanguard
Jason Anderson | Cinema Scope Online | 2013

Car Tunes: Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver and the Song of the Open Road*
Lee Henderson | Border Crossings, vol. 33, no. 1 | p. 72-78 | Mar 2014
*This is a library resource that requires ARTIC login

PUBLICATIONS BY SETH SCRIVER

Stooge Pile
Seth Scriver | Columbia College Chicago Library | 2010
*This is a library resource that requires ARTIC login

ADDITIONAL FLAXMAN LIBRARY RESOURCES

OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES

Shamattawa First Nation Keewatin Tribal Council Page

Indigenous History - Canada
Library and Archives Canada | Canada.ca | 2025

Conversations at the Edge Lecture Recordings
Conversation at the Edge video recordings (2016–present.) Available with SAIC login credentials.