Keith Lock, the first Chinese-Canadian filmmaker, returns with a new movie, Relics of Love and War (40 minutes), a family thriller that was kept under wraps for decades, until the Official Secrets Act allowed these true stories to be told. Using a suite of stunning 35mm photographs, Lock brings to [...]
Vanguardia Dance Projects (VDP), is a collective focused on creating, presenting, promoting, and supporting works of dance artists with Latin American and indigenous backgrounds living in Canada. Vanguardia promotes an ongoing exchange and collaboration with local and international dance organizations and artists. We are interested in the dissemination of contemporary [...]
RRibamar is a PhD candidate in Communication and Culture at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a research trainee at York University (YorkU). He studies gender and sexuality in Brazilian popular culture, with a focus on the Reisado tradition. He directed the film "Tica, a Rainha do Reisado" (2019) and "Swords and [...]
Helena Martin Franco, born in Colombia, has lived and worked in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal since 1998. Her interdisciplinary practice explores the blending of different artistic processes and the hybridization between traditional techniques and new technologies. Helena creates autofictions where she explores the permeability and boundaries between cultural, national and gender identities. Her artistic proposals participate in [...]
Santonise. From December 3, 4, and 5, from 19:30 hours Argentina, 5:30 PM Canada with free access. The Festival Santo Noise 11th, will have its edition in a virtual format PROGRAMA See Santonoise program below Poster Santo Noise 11. See Luxando program below See LuxandoEng See LuxandoEsp - With more than 60 artists from [...]
NOISE AND AUTOTRANSMISSION Online sound performance and artist talk with Argentinean artists Jorge Castro and Inti Pujol. Presented as part of the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)'s Poetic Justice Project in collaboration with converSalon and the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada. SEPTEMBER 18 and [...]
Who visits our dreams? These four new hybrid shorts by Toronto-ish artists explore hauntings, of love, of loss, of distance, where doc enigmas collide with poetic whispers. The forms of Whitecrow, Romvari, Khademolreza and Zhao may be distinct -- from elegant looping narratives to fragments of auto-ethnography, from Freudian fable to staged verité -- but [...]
Active members of the Mullae Art Village in Seoul, Korea. Last night they shared their recent projects that were central part of the unique workings of the Action for Mullae Artist Network, a movement to sustain artists’ independence. Mullae-dong, located in Seoul, Korea, is a small district that is known for a cluster of [...]
Even as I child, I can recall that my body was perceived and treated differently from the majority. I understood the dynamics of white and black bodies. My first awareness of being black was when a white child rubbed his finger against my skin, learning that I was not made of chocolate. That’s when [...]
Angel Rueda is head programer of (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico – International Showcase of Independent Film, a unique annual event in Spain. Every year, the program brings together the most exciting avant-garde filmmaking from both the past and the current scene, with a focus on expanded cinema in all its forms. (S8) offers [...]
