# Coral Short

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{{Short description|Canadian multimedia artist and curator}}
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| birth_place      = Victoria, British Columbia
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'''Coral Short''' (born 1973) is a [queer](/source/queer) Canadian multimedia artist and curator. Based in [Berlin](/source/Berlin) and [Montreal](/source/Montreal), they are best known for their performance art, as a curator of short film programs, and as a creator of affordable queer artist residencies.<ref name="Arsen">{{Cite web |last=Arsen |first=Jordan |date=1 March 2013 |title=Play like a Caterpillar, Sting like a Butterfly: Coral Short |url=http://edgywomenblog.com/2013/03/01/play-like-a-caterpillar-sting-like-a-butterfly-coral-short/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030309/http://edgywomenblog.com/2013/03/01/play-like-a-caterpillar-sting-like-a-butterfly-coral-short/ |archive-date=4 March 2016 |website=Edgy Women Blog}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Baldwin |first=Lori |date=2018 |title=Berlin: history, hedonism, and wildness |url=https://www.artquest.org.uk/berlin-history-hedonism-and-wildness/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725033255/https://www.artquest.org.uk/berlin-history-hedonism-and-wildness/ |archive-date=25 July 2018 |access-date=24 July 2018 |work=Artquest}}</ref>

==Career==
Short was educated at [Concordia University](/source/Concordia_University) and obtained their master's degree in fine art at the [Chelsea School of Art](/source/Chelsea_School_of_Art).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Coral Short: Education, Training, and Certification |url=https://www.coralshort.com/training-1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251204020123/https://www.coralshort.com/training-1 |archive-date=4 December 2025 |access-date=28 November 2015 |website=coralshort.com}}</ref> They use textiles, video, nature, and their own body as their media.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Goldie |first=James |date=20 July 2015 |title=Artist calls for gentleness at Vancouver Queer Arts Festival |url=https://xtramagazine.com/culture/artist-calls-for-gentleness-at-vancouver-queer-arts-festival-68291 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250517065310/https://xtramagazine.com/culture/artist-calls-for-gentleness-at-vancouver-queer-arts-festival-68291 |archive-date=17 May 2025 |access-date=3 December 2025 |work=[Xtra Magazine](/source/Xtra_Magazine)}}</ref> Short has curated independent queer films internationally in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe. In this capacity, they have worked with organizations such as [MIX NYC](/source/MIX_NYC),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Havmoeller |first=Birthe |date=12 November 2013 |title=MIX NYC: Craftivism Curated by Coral Short |url=https://www.femininemoments.dk/blog/mix-nyc-craftivism-curated-by-coral-short/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251204225642/https://www.femininemoments.dk/blog/mix-nyc-craftivism-curated-by-coral-short/ |archive-date=4 December 2025 |access-date=4 December 2025 |website=Feminine Moments}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Q5ZjFi1ypcc |title=MIX 24 is Live Performance (Insiders) |date=9 November 2011 |type=Video |language=en |publisher=[MIX NYC](/source/MIX_NYC) |access-date=4 December 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251204225848/https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Q5ZjFi1ypcc |archive-date=4 December 2025 |url-status=live |via=[YouTube](/source/YouTube)}}</ref> [MIX Copenhagen](/source/MIX_Copenhagen),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Næve |first=Kimmi Amilla |date=6 March 2015 |title=KaPow Collectives guide til Kvindernes Internationale Kampdag |trans-title=KaPow Collective's guide to International Women's Day |url=https://modkraft.dk/blog/kimmi-amilla-n-ve/kapow-collectives-guide-til-kvindernes-internationale-kampdag-0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251204231150/https://modkraft.dk/blog/kimmi-amilla-n-ve/kapow-collectives-guide-til-kvindernes-internationale-kampdag-0 |archive-date=4 December 2025 |access-date=4 December 2025 |language=nl |quote=KAPOW COLLECTIVE og MIX COPENHAGEN har glæden af at have Coral Short på besøg, der i Husets Biograf vil præsentere en række af udvalgte kortfilm. |trans-quote=KAPOW COLLECTIVE and MIX COPENHAGEN are delighted to have Coral Short visit, who will present a number of selected short films at Husets Biograf.}}</ref> Entzaubert Festival (Berlin),<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harper |first=Lina |date=9 August 2010 |title=Montreal's radical queers team up with Berlin's radical queers: Pervers/Cité brings Berlin's Entzaubert film fest to Montreal for one night only |url=https://xtramagazine.com/culture/montreals-radical-queers-team-up-with-berlins-radical-queers-34667 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240912053152/https://xtramagazine.com/culture/montreals-radical-queers-team-up-with-berlins-radical-queers-34667 |archive-date=12 September 2024 |access-date=4 December 2025 |work=[Xtra Magazine](/source/Xtra_Magazine)}}</ref> and the [Queer Arts Festival](/source/Queer_Arts_Festival).<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Takeuchi |first=Craig |date=28 July 2015 |title=Queer Arts Festival asks where do you draw the line in 2015? |url=https://www.straight.com/arts/497176/queer-arts-festival-asks-where-do-you-draw-line-2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416062942/https://www.straight.com/arts/497176/queer-arts-festival-asks-where-do-you-draw-line-2015 |archive-date=16 April 2024 |access-date=4 December 2025 |work=[The Georgia Straight](/source/The_Georgia_Straight)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=TRIGGER WARNING: a video curation by Coral short |url=https://queerartsfestival.com/trigger-warning-a-video-curation-by-coral-short/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250812221905/https://queerartsfestival.com/trigger-warning-a-video-curation-by-coral-short/ |archive-date=12 August 2025 |access-date=4 December 2025 |website=[Queer Arts Festival](/source/Queer_Arts_Festival)}}</ref>

===Multimedia and performance art===
While still attending Concordia University in 1998, Short formed Women With Kitchen Appliances, a performance art collaborative.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Deachman |first=Bruce |date=24 January 2003 |title=Making noise with mother's kitchen gear: Women With Kitchen Appliances perform in various ways, but they always have fun. Bruce Deachman reports |work=Ottawa Citizen |pages=Ds |id={{ProQuest|240523630}} |quote=The Montreal-based group....was started a few years ago by Coral Short as a student project for Concordia University's visual arts program.}}</ref><ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Artiste: Coral Short |url=https://electriques.ca/filles/fr/artiste/short_co |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240220172532/https://electriques.ca/filles/fr/artiste/short_co |archive-date=20 February 2024 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Les Filles électriques |language=fr}}</ref>

In 2012, Short's project ''The Hole-y Army'' featuring choreographed queers and 100 hand-made puppets<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schlesinger |first=Jessica |date=29 June 2012 |title=Coral Short Brings the March Back to Dyke March |url=https://www.curvemag.com/blog/art/coral-short-brings-the-march-back-to-dyke-march/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918030938/http://www.curvemag.com/Curve-Magazine/Web-Articles-2012/Coral-Short-Brings-the-March-Back-to-Dyke-March/ |archive-date=18 September 2012 |access-date=3 December 2025 |work=[Curve](/source/Curve_(magazine))}}</ref> was integrated into [Dyke March](/source/Dyke_March)es in [New York City](/source/New_York_City), [Montreal](/source/Montreal),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Podmore |first=Julie |title=Lesbian Geographies: Gender, Place and Power |publisher=[Ashgate Publishing](/source/Ashgate_Publishing) |year=2015 |isbn=9781472443953 |editor-last=Browne |editor-first=Kath |location=Surrey, England |language=en |chapter=Contested Dyke Rights to the City: Montreal's 2012 Dyke Marches in Time and Space |oclc=948603331 |access-date=4 December 2015 |editor-last2=Ferreira |editor-first2=Eduarda |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tguNCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22coral+short%22+lgbt&pg=PT5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529001908/https://books.google.com/books?id=tguNCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT99&dq=%22coral%20short%22%20lgbt&pg=PT5#v=onepage&q=%22coral%20short%22%20lgbt&f=false |archive-date=29 May 2016 |url-status=live |via=[Google Books](/source/Google_Books)}}</ref> [Ottawa](/source/Ottawa), and [Toronto](/source/Toronto). Short identifies as a [third-wave feminist](/source/third-wave_feminist) and is notable within the [craftivism](/source/craftivism) movement. They describe this work as "a slow, thoughtful activism [and] a strong powerful display of resistance."<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Fry |first=Rachel |title=Craftivism: The Role of Feminism in Craft Activism |date=2014 |access-date=4 December 2025 |degree= |publisher=[Saint Mary’s University](/source/Saint_Mary's_University_(Halifax)) |url=https://library2.smu.ca/bitstream/handle/01/26228/Fry_Rachel_MASTERS_2014.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |place=Halifax, Nova Scotia |language=en |oclc=1365569478 |page=94 |chapter=Chapter Four: Defining and Identifying as Craftivist/Feminist |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314135531/https://library2.smu.ca/bitstream/handle/01/26228/Fry_Rachel_MASTERS_2014.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |archive-date=14 March 2024}}</ref> ''Stop Beating Yourself Up'', first performed in 2013 at [Edgy Women](/source/Edgy_Women) in Montréal, involves Short wearing boxing gloves and hitting themself for three hours.<ref>{{Cite news |last=del Giusto-Enos |first=Elysha |date=5 March 2013 |title=Sugar, Spice and Blood Packets: EDGY Women 2013 Mixes Sport With Extreme Feminism |url=http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/sugar-spice-and-blood-packets |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208114525/http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/sugar-spice-and-blood-packets |archive-date=8 December 2015 |access-date=4 December 2015 |work=[The Link](/source/The_Link_(newspaper))}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url = http://www.sadmag.ca/news/2015/07/interview-qaf-artist-coral-short/|title = Interview QAF Artist Coral Short|last = Fleerackers|first = Alice|date = 30 July 2015|work = Sad Mag|access-date = 4 December 2015|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151208155240/http://www.sadmag.ca/news/2015/07/interview-qaf-artist-coral-short/|archive-date = 8 December 2015}}</ref> They repeated the same performance, ''Stop Beating Yourself Up'' (this time for one hour) at Vancouver's [Queer Arts Festival](/source/Queer_Arts_Festival) opening art party in 2015.<ref name=":0" />

''Scream Choir'' is 2014 a sound piece consisting of a large group of people screaming in the formation of a traditional choir.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=Coral Short (Collaboration with Sarah Wendt): Scream Choir |url=http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/enc14-urban-interventions/item/2318-enc14-performances-scream-choir |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616093033/http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/enc14-urban-interventions/item/2318-enc14-performances-scream-choir |archive-date=16 June 2015 |access-date=1 February 2016 |website=[Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics](/source/Diana_Taylor_(professor))}}</ref> ''The Laughter Choir'' is a similar 2015 sound piece with a choir of laughter and was performed at Art in the Open in collaboration with Sarah Wendt (and Russell Louder assisting) along with Scream Choir.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 February 2013 |title=Art in the Open / Art à ciel ouvert |url=https://thistownissmall.com/art-in-the-open-art-a-ciel-ouvert/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822014957/https://thistownissmall.com/art-in-the-open-art-a-ciel-ouvert/ |archive-date=22 August 2018 |access-date=21 August 2018 |work=this town is small |language=en-US}}</ref> ''Fake Orgasm Choir'' is a 2016 work featuring a large group of people standing in the formation of a traditional choir. Instead of singing notes, they fake orgasms.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROKhPKMbeg0 |title=Fake Orgasm Choir |date=6 March 2016 |last=Yuen |first=Kalileo |type=Video |language=en |access-date=21 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101220645/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROKhPKMbeg0 |archive-date=1 January 2019 |url-status=live |via=[YouTube](/source/YouTube)}}</ref> In 2017, Short used their previous experiences in working with the voice as an instrument and presented a human noise workshop on sound experimentation and production from the body at Sound Acts co-curated by [FYTA](/source/FYTA) in Athens, Greece.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Coral Short |url=https://www.soundacts.com/coral-short.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822050001/https://www.soundacts.com/coral-short.html |archive-date=22 August 2018 |access-date=21 August 2018 |website=Sound Acts |language=en}}</ref>

''Future Visions'' is a 2014 work presented as a website of over 100 video tarot cards representing queer voices from Europe and North America.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 2014 |title=<em>Future Visions</em>: Angela Gabereau (Montréal) and Coral Short (Montréal) |url=http://www.htmlles.net/2014/index.php?page=events&lang=en&evId=92 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160217172841/http://www.htmlles.net/2014/index.php?page=events&lang=en&evId=92 |archive-date=17 February 2016 |access-date=1 February 2016 |website=The HTMlles 11: Feminist festival of media arts + digital culture |publisher=[Studio XX](/source/Ada_X)}}</ref> Other performance pieces include ''Gay Incantations'' (2013),<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 March 2013 |title=Gay Incantations x The One Project |url=http://www.sadmag.ca/news/2013/03/gay-incantations-x-the-one-project/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208135442/http://www.sadmag.ca/news/2013/03/gay-incantations-x-the-one-project/ |archive-date=8 December 2015 |work=Sad Mag}}</ref> ''Nest'' (2014),<ref>{{Cite news |last=Havmoeller |first=Birthe |date=22 July 2014 |title=Nest by Coral Short |url=https://www.femininemoments.dk/blog/nest-by-coral-short/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208163858/http://www.femininemoments.dk/blog/nest-by-coral-short/ |archive-date=8 December 2015 |access-date=28 November 2015 |work=Feminine Moments}}</ref> and ''Plush'' (2015).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Archer |first=Kristin |date=24 October 2015 |others=Photos by Lisa Vuyk |title=Supercrawl 2015 [Part 4/4] |url=https://ihearthamilton.ca/supercrawl-2015-4/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250618030317/https://ihearthamilton.ca/supercrawl-2015-4/ |archive-date=18 June 2025 |access-date=4 December 2025 |website=I Heart Hamilton}}</ref>

In 2016, Short began curating regular film screenings in Berlin, including a sporty queer video program called 'Pumped' for Gegen, Berlin's biggest queer party.<ref>{{Cite news |date=13 June 2016 |title=GEGEN OLYMPICS |url=http://gegenberlin.com/2016/06/13/gegen-olympics/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711215857/http://gegenberlin.com/2016/06/13/gegen-olympics/ |archive-date=11 July 2017 |access-date=21 August 2018 |work=Gegen Berlin |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2017, they received a grant from Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa to pay 115 of the video artists they curated that year.<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 January 2018 |title=Venice, Berlin, Montreal, Amsterdam! |url=https://coralshort.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/venice-berlin-amsterdam/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822015039/https://coralshort.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/venice-berlin-amsterdam/ |archive-date=22 August 2018 |access-date=21 August 2018 |work=Coral Short |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2018, they began a series of short eco performance works on their Instagram.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coralshort.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/summer-healing/|title=Summer Healing|last=Short|first=Coral|date=July 24, 2018|website=Coral Short|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822014932/https://coralshort.wordpress.com/2018/07/24/summer-healing/|archive-date=22 August 2018|access-date=August 21, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> They also facilitated three plant based ASMR workshops with Jean P'ark at [Martin-Gropius-Bau](/source/Martin-Gropius-Bau) as part of Welt ohne Außen: Workshops, curated by Isabel Margarita Lewis. These workshops were an opportunity to hear and create beautiful noises as well as relax.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018 |title=Coral Short & Jean P\'ark: Ecosensual Echos |url=https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/aktuell/festivals/gropiusbau/programm_mgb/gropius_bau_ausstellungen/gropius_bau_18_welt_ohne_aussen/workshops_welt_ohne_aussen/gb18_welt_ohne_aussen_workshops_detail_260565.php?openedFromSearch=true |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822015103/https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/aktuell/festivals/gropiusbau/programm_mgb/gropius_bau_ausstellungen/gropius_bau_18_welt_ohne_aussen/workshops_welt_ohne_aussen/gb18_welt_ohne_aussen_workshops_detail_260565.php?openedFromSearch=true |archive-date=22 August 2018 |access-date=21 August 2018 |website=[Berliner Festspiele](/source/Berliner_Festspiele) |language=de}}</ref>

===Selected films===
* ''We Don't Want to Marry'' (2013)<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Movie: We Don't Want to Marry |url=https://frauenfilmfest.com/movie/we-dont-want-to-marry/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250423080356/https://frauenfilmfest.com/en/movie/we-dont-want-to-marry/ |archive-date=23 April 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=[Internationales Frauen Film Fest](/source/Internationales_Frauen*_Film_Fest_Dortmund%2BK%C3%B6ln) |language=en-US}}</ref>
* ''Gay Incantations'' (2013)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Media: GAY INCANTATIONS PART I |url=https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/media/WORK_000926.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251210005631/https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/media/WORK_000926.html |archive-date=10 December 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Transgender Media Portal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAd0FdtmmW8 |title=GAY INCANTATIONS PART I |date=24 June 2013 |type=Video |language=en |publisher=Coral Short |access-date=9 December 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251210010340/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAd0FdtmmW8 |archive-date=10 December 2025 |url-status=live |via=[YouTube](/source/YouTube)}}</ref>
* ''Genderless Jellyfish'' (2013)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=Movie: Genderless Jellyfish |url=https://frauenfilmfest.com/en/movie/genderless-jellyfish-2/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250523145837/https://frauenfilmfest.com/en/movie/genderless-jellyfish-2/ |archive-date=23 May 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=[Internationales Frauen Film Fest](/source/Internationales_Frauen*_Film_Fest_Dortmund%2BK%C3%B6ln) |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Media: Genderless Jellyfish |url=https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/media/WORK_000087.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250920161006/https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/media/WORK_000087.html |archive-date=20 September 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Transgender Media Portal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=San Francisco Transgender Film Festival |url=https://m.bpt.me/event/878305 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108090703/https://m.bpt.me/event/878305 |archive-date=8 November 2014 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=[Brown Paper Tickets](/source/Brown_Paper_Tickets)}}</ref>
* ''Narcissus'' (2011)<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=Media: Narcissus |url=https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/media/WORK_000879.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250920170455/https://www.transgendermediaportal.org/media/WORK_000879.html |archive-date=20 September 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Transgender Media Portal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2012 |title=Queer City Cinema 9 - The 9th Biennial International Queer Film & Video Festival - June 9 - Transgender |url=https://www.queercitycinema.ca/2012/?s=program&d=9 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250805182706/https://www.queercitycinema.ca/2012/?s=program&d=9 |archive-date=5 August 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=[Queer City Cinema](/source/Queer_City_Cinema)}}</ref>
* ''HUMANimals'' (2011)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=Humanimals |url=https://vucavu.com/en/groupeinterventionvideo/2011/humanimals-(1) |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250812080050/https://vucavu.com/en/groupeinterventionvideo/2011/humanimals-(1) |archive-date=12 August 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=VUCAVU}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://vimeo.com/38192460 |title=HUMANimals |date=2012 |type=Video |language=en |publisher=Coral Short |access-date=9 December 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924204609/https://vimeo.com/38192460 |archive-date=24 September 2016 |url-status=live |via=[Vimeo](/source/Vimeo)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=Products: HUMANIMALS |url=https://www.givideo.org/products/humanimals |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250621231052/https://www.givideo.org/products/humanimals |archive-date=21 June 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Groupe Intervention Vidéo |language=en, fr}}</ref>
* ''Lesbian Hand Gestures'' (2011)<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Cineffable 2013 - Lesbian Hand Gestures |url=https://www.cineffable.fr/festivals/25efestival/Films25/pgw/lesbian-hand-gestures_En.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250216015302/https://www.cineffable.fr/festivals/25efestival/Films25/pgw/lesbian-hand-gestures_En.htm |archive-date=16 February 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Paris International Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival |publisher=[Cineffable](/source/Cineffable) |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://vimeo.com/39869424 |title=Lesbian Hand Gestures |date=2012 |type=Video |language=en |publisher=Coral Short |access-date=9 December 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514050859/https://vimeo.com/39869424 |archive-date=14 May 2024 |url-status=live |via=[Vimeo](/source/Vimeo)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Doherty |first=Shauna Jean |date=2015 |title=In A Queer Time and Place - A curated screening - VIVO Media Arts Centre |url=https://www.shaunajeandoherty.com/new-page-4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20251210-020723/https://www.shaunajeandoherty.com/new-page-4 |archive-date=10 December 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=Shauna Jean Doherty |language=en-US}}</ref>

Short was awarded the HARDtv Hot Shorts Award at the 2012 [Inside Out Film and Video Festival](/source/Inside_Out_Film_and_Video_Festival) for ''Narcissus'', a short about trans love.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Quan |first=Danielle Ng See |date=1 June 2012 |title=Margarita grabs audience award at Inside Out Festival |url=https://playbackonline.ca/2012/06/01/margarita-grabs-audience-award-at-inside-out-festival/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251210004836/https://playbackonline.ca/2012/06/01/margarita-grabs-audience-award-at-inside-out-festival/ |archive-date=10 December 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=Playback Online}}</ref> In 2014, Short withdrew ''We Don't Want to Marry'' from the [Vancouver Queer Film Festival](/source/Vancouver_Queer_Film_Festival) program because the festival accepted advertising from a pro-Israel group Yad b'Yad.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Barsotti |first=Natasha |date=14 August 2014 |title=UPDATE: Queer film festival criticized for pro-Israel program ad |url=https://xtramagazine.com/power/update-queer-film-festival-criticized-for-pro-israel-program-ad-62952 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251210003835/https://xtramagazine.com/power/update-queer-film-festival-criticized-for-pro-israel-program-ad-62952 |archive-date=10 December 2025 |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=[Daily Xtra](/source/Xtra_Magazine)}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*  [http://www.coralshort.com Official website]
*  [http://futurevisions.me Future Visions.] Collaboration with [Angela Gabereau](/source/Angela_Gabereau),
*  [https://web.archive.org/web/20151208155240/http://www.sadmag.ca/news/2015/07/interview-qaf-artist-coral-short/ SAD Mag Interview (2015)]

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