NearShore Cinema: Endless Cookie (2025)

Program

NearShore Cinema: ENDLESS COOKIE (2025)

Join us for the screening of an animated documentary about family, resilience and future through the stories from the Shamattawa First Nations community in northern Manitoba, Canada.

Friday 7 August 2026, 6.30-8.07pm

Museum courtyard

“Once we decided to embrace the narrative divergences, the vision for the project fell into place — it became a family portrait.” *

What started as a seven-month project to record seven stories told by his brother Pete Scriver – whom Seth crowns the greatest storyteller he has ever known – grew into nine years’ worth of audio recordings, animated into a colourful and whimsical illustration of family, extended family and community. It is also a film about respecting tradition, caring for water and land, understanding the future through the past, and growing up.

Co-directed by half-brothers Seth and Pete Scriver, the film is a smorgasbord of stories about life and people in Shamattawa, a remote First Nations reserve in northern Manitoba, Canada. Their long conversations, often recorded in Pete’s living room or over interprovincial phone calls, unfold alongside reminiscences among family members, encounters with neighbours, supernatural tales and recollections of dreams. The documentary is about these stories as much as it is about the making of the documentary, especially the countless interruptions – flushing toilet, babbling toddlers, video games and an orchestra of 16 barking dogs – that persistently seep into the recordings. The directors ended up keeping these disruptions in the narrative, where they become part of the film’s charm.

Humour and kaleidoscopic imagination animate every frame, even in scenes touching on grief, police violence, unresolved land settlements, loss of nature and the over-incarceration of Indigenous people.

In the film’s opening sequence, Seth rings Pete about the grant they have received to make a movie. Scribbled on a notepad is Seth’s vision for the project: “funny, beautiful, spiritual, political, complex, simple and true”. The film has clearly achieved all of this.

* Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver, “Related Images: Endless Cookie”, MUBI Notebook Column, 17 Apr 2026

ENDLESS COOKIE (2025)

Dir. Seth Scriver, Pete Scriver

Rate: Unclassified 15+

NearShore Cinema is La Perouse Museum’s film program born from a passion for storytelling and shared viewing experience.

As part of the Museum’s headland-wide programming, NearShore Cinema brings communities together through moving images that meditate on history from diverse perspectives, reflect on our immediate realities and look into the future. Aligning with the central themes that guide our exhibition planning and collection development, the film series will explore First Nations culture and knowledge, coastal environment, maritime explorations including the French connection, telecommunications and science.

From feature films and family-friendly screenings to archival footage, short films and video works by local artists living and working on Bidjigal Country, NearShore Cinema invites audience of all ages and diverse backgrounds to encounter cinema in a place rich with memories and imaginations.

Bring your family, settle into a bean bag in the courtyard of the 1882 Cable Station, and join us at the headland after sunset for an evening of collective viewing, listening and dreaming.

Event details

Friday 7 August 2026

6pm | Exhibition opening, Habitat: Annelies Jahn & Jane Burton Taylor

6.30-8.07pm | screening of ENDLESS COOKIE (2025)

Bean bags and light snacks will be provided. Feel free to bring your own blanket/cushion.