Monday | Oct 23 | 6pm
Screening @ Deluge
Partially Obscured Views
Watch Online Free: Tuesday, Oct 24 (24hrs)
Hope Slide
Anthony Remizov | 2023 | Canada | 9 min | World Premiere
A close look at the aftermath of a historic landslide near Hope, BC. Vast and uncompromising, the scene presents a complex dialectic of destruction and regeneration. The landscape of markers, forces and traces looks utterly indifferent—yet undeniably real. With an original score by Adrian K. Yee, Hope Slide progresses akin to a slow exhalation, evoking a contemplative melancholy of relief at a geological pace.
Anthony Remizov is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary designer based in Vancouver. Drawing from his background in cross-traditional philosophy, he focuses his filmmaking on the materiality of non-human phenomena. He is primarily interested in film as the means of creating spaces for careful observation and reflection. He holds a BA from the University of British Columbia and actively engages in independent scholarship.
reliéf Relief
Johannes Gierlinger, Mira Klug | 2023 | Austria/Slovakia | 9 min | Cdn Premiere
Beginning with a historical painting of an idyllic March landscape, stored in an art depot, the film moves along the border river March, which with its Austrian-Slovakian section establishes one of Austria’s oldest national borders. The film poses questions about image storage, escape and the reverberations of historical circumstances. The depot serves as a storehouse and repository of images and history, while nature constantly accumulates and stratifies. The film meanders downstream along the seasons, referencing the history of escape in Iron Curtain times. It poses questions regarding hidden history as well as the overgrowth of nature and refers not least to the notion of contaminated landscape.
Mira Klug studied fine arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her work has been shown in various institutions and galleries, including Neue Galerie Graz, Museum Joanneum, KIÖR Graz, ZETA Contemporary Art Center Tirana, FOTO WIEN. In 2022 she received the Bmkös Startstipendium for Fine Arts. She lives and works in Vienna.
Johannes Gierlinger studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. His work has been shown at national and international film festivals and institutions, including Vision Du Réel Nyon (CH), Belvedere21 (AT), Werkleitz Zentrum für Medienkunst (DE), IMPAKT Festival (NL), CPH:DOX (DE), Filmmakers Fest Milano (IT), Edinburgh IFF (GB), FIC Valdivia (CL), Rotor Graz (AT), Salzburger Kunstverein (AT), Callirrhoë (GR), das weisse haus wien (AT), Diagonale Graz (AT). He lives and works in Vienna.
recortes
Kimberly Forero-Arnías | 2023 | Colombia/USA | 10 min | W Cdn Premiere
Field journal entries, both mine and of others, are ground together to explore what is filtered and what remains as families of fauna and flora move from one environment to another.
Kimberly Forero-Arnías is an experimental animator whose work has screened across the United States as well as internationally at festivals including Rotterdam, Ann Arbor, Images and Edinburgh. She is the recipient of various awards including the SMFA Traveling Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and the Film Studies Center Fellowship at Harvard.
Only If You Could See a View Above the Clouds
Zhuoyun (Yun) Chen | 2022 | USA | 4 min | Cdn Premiere
The film weaves together a collection of images, portraying enigmatic landscapes that draw upon the ethereal presence of ghosts, a mysterious and haunting face, and the allure of minerals. I wish to construct an image of emotional riddles and the act of deciphering.
Zhuoyun (Yun) Chen works with mediums such as 16mm analog film, digital video, computer generated imagery, ceramics and metal. Her films often examine the sociopolitical dimensions of past occurrences disregarded by younger generations in modern China, providing an intimate look at their emotional and psychological impact on individuals across generations. Yun’s recent projects experiment with figures, landscapes and artificial objects as a means to challenge societal norms surrounding female sexuality, offering alternative narratives within intimate relationships. Originally a resident of China, Yun now lives and works in Los Angeles.
a fence is a fence but the clouds move freely
Curtis Byrnside Miller | 2023 | USA | 8 min | Cdn Premiere
A brief essay on the origin of four small towns in rural Kansas and Oklahoma, told through each town’s respective water tower. Tall tales, public memorials and roadside signage present in a region shadowed with settler-colonialism, imperial pursuits, identity fictions and the threat of severe weather.
Curtis Miller is an artist working across film, video, photography and publication. His films have screened internationally at the Centre for Contemporary Arts – Glasgow, EXIS – Seoul, Fracto – Berlin, Montreal Underground Film Festival and the Kinodot Experimental Film Festival – St Petersburg. His work has shown domestically at the Chicago Underground Film Festival, ICDOCS, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Hyde Park Arts Center – Chicago, Indiana University – Bloomington, Gallery 400 – Chicago, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid – Chicago, as well as Renaissance TV through The Renaissance Society – Chicago.
100 Partially Obscured Views
Nicole Antebi | 2023 | USA | 17 min | W Cdn Premiere
I was raised in the borderlands of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. In the years since I graduated from high school in 1993, I watched the two cities, that once shared the same name and continue to share community, become increasingly dissected by federal political, social, economic and environmental policies designed to obstruct the movement of people, culture and the river with two names. In my work I have returned to the postcard as an object, an indexical document—that is almost always out of sync or time or tone with the moment at hand, as well, a type of open letter.
Nicole Antebi she/her(s) is an animator/filmmaker who makes things that move, loop and sometimes hold. She came of age on the northwest bank of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo on the El Paso/Juárez border. The importance of movement as it concerns the dignity of people and rivers was a formative part of her childhood and the foundation of the work she does today. She is an assistant professor of Illustration and Animation at the University of Arizona and previously taught at CUNY Queens College, SUNY Albany and in 2019 was a visiting professor at la Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico. She is currently working in collaboration on an animated documentary about the embattled Barrio Duranguito in El Paso, Texas and Oasis (working title), a short documentary about indigenous resistance and land justice made in partnership with members of the Rarámuri community in El Oasis, Chihuahua City. The project is based on writer Victoria Blanco’s ongoing ethnographic research and generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Digital Borderland’s Grant through The University of Arizona. She is also in the process of finalizing a four-part web series about the history, science, tools and future of vaccines and viruses for The American Museum of Natural History with generous support from The City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Monday | Oct 23 | 8pm
Screening @ Deluge
Virtual Spectres
In-Person Screening: Virtual Spectres
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Watch Online Free: Tuesday, Oct 24 (24hrs)
Virtual Spectres
Sarah Boo | 2022 | Canada | 5 min | W Cdn Premiere
Virtual Spectres combines scrolling social media feeds with incomplete body scans, situating them together in 3D space. Moving patterns emerge when layers of TikTok footage are superpositioned and the silhouettes of their creators briefly occupy the same time and space, being swiped together and then away. The video ruminates on our existence as cyborgs in a state of the in-between and everywhere. How does it feel to have body-consciousness that is stretched between macro spaces and virtual spaces, duplicated between flesh organs and corporately owned data centres across the world?
Sarah Boo is a Toronto-based multimedia artist who spent her formative years immersed in virtual worlds of various shapes and sizes. Her internet and video works aim to make sense of her experiences of memory, space and time in a techno-capitalist society. Recently, she has spent much of her time thinking about online sound environments and their ability to foster digital intimacy. She is currently in the Digital Futures program at OCAD University.
The Branches Bleed Code
Anthony Vicente-Pereira | 2023 | Canada | 10 min | World Premiere
A headfirst dive into a world of landscapes made intangible, people and places rendered and processed, pieced together out of recorded footage and the endless archives of Google Earth. A visceral attempt to break out of—or through—this digital reality.
Anthony Vicente-Pereira is a Montreal-based artist and filmmaker with distinctly digital obsessions, working through experimental, process-based approaches to mine the full potential of this immaterial film form. He is currently obtaining a BFA in Film Production from Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.
Sym
Kadet Kuhne | 2023 | USA | 4 min | Cdn Premiere
Based on concepts of emergent strategy, Sym envisions a response to individual resistance that shifts the focus toward collective interdependent metamorphosis, becoming—with others’ intricate, non-linear, tentacular structures—and the embrace of change as adaptive transformation.
Kadet Kuhne is a sound and visual artist engaging community through interactive, immersive and performative works. Taking form in video, installation, interactive sound, AR/VR, 3D printing and 2D print. Kadet’s work aims to prompt visceral responses to the invisible forces that impact and connect us. With a digitally manipulated aesthetic contrasted by ambient spaciousness, Kadet explores our digital nervous system, our human possibility and the network of ecosystems we live in. Kadet leverages their knowledge of emerging technologies to build transformative and immersive worlds and experiences beyond our own.
Kadet’s works have been presented internationally at venues such as Museum of Art Lucerne, Society for Art and Technology (Montreal), Sonar Festival (Barcelona), Mutek (Montreal), GIASO Network Music Festival (France), Villa Arson (France), Sound//Space Gallery (London), Antimatter (Victoria), niu: espai artistic contemporani (Barcelona), Madame Claude (Berlin) and select national venues: Sundance, Hammer Museum, LACMA, REDCAT, Torrance Art Museum, LACE Gallery, Outfest, SFMOMA, YBCA, De Young Museum, SOMArts, Soundwave SF Festival, Crossroads Film Festival, SFEMF, Fort Mason Center for the Arts, Shapeshifters Cinema and Aggregate Space Gallery, where Kadet’s most recent solo show was exhibited.
The Perfect Human
Lilan Yang | 2023 | USA | 13 min | Cdn Premiere
Inspired by Jørgen Leth’s cult classic The Perfect Human (1968) which raises many simple yet philosophical questions about who the perfect human is, what it means to be human, or perfect, The Perfect Human applies unsupervised machine learning and experimental filmmaking techniques to re-examine and question the contested notion of perfection in the eyes of artificial intelligence. The remake of computer-generated moving images are transformed from digital to an analog artifact of transparencies which completes the cycles from analog film to digital video and back to 16mm, from motion pictures to still images, and then latent-space interpolation, from a proxy of human memories to a machine learning construct.
Lilan Yang is a Boston-based artist and experimental filmmaker originally from Chongqing, China. Her practice explores the myth of cities and landscapes, ways of seeing and unseeing and sentiments of remembering and forgetting, through lens-based analog media such as 16mm filmmaking and 35mm photography, as well as digital technologies such as machine learning and data visualization. She holds an MFA in Digital + Media from Rhode Island School of Design and a BS in Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Silence IV
Anna Grigorian | 2023 | Armenia/Canada | 2 min | W Cdn Premiere
Silence IV is the second in a series of video-bites shot entirely on cellphone. Playing with lights on interior surfaces the artist is working through the conflicts between her immediate surroundings and split identity, as well as its place in her own art.
Anna Grigorian is an experimental artist from Armenia whose art practice is currently based between Canada and Armenia. With a background in sculpture, literature and photography, her current chosen medium is moving image.
grain cloud atmosphere
Martin Moolhuijsen | 2023 | Germany | 7 min | Cdn Premiere
Painterly technique and colour, the film is the result of improvisation with software. grain cloud atmosphere explores the perception of time through the eye and through the ear.
Martin Moolhuijsen is an Italian intermedia artist based in Berlin. His work is situated at the threshold of sound art, experimental film and experimental poetry and has taken the form of installations, fixed-media pieces, conceptual artworks, poems, signs, films and of any combination of the aforementioned. His work has been presented at Akademie der Künste, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medien and CTM Vorspiel among others. He is a member of the analog film lab LaborBerlin.
Faces in the Wild
Magdalena Bermudez | 2022 | USA | 15 min | Cdn Premiere
An excavation of histories of facial recognition in which scientists direct faces to emote, close ups direct audiences to feel and a feedback loop between a monkey and an AI reckon with the data-sourced faces of their unconscious.
Magdalena Bermudez is interested in tricky pictures—images that stretch our perceptual capacities, require us to rethink our dimensional assumptions and encounter familiar relations anew. Her work often recontextualizes scientific or operational images to interrogate their formal qualities, drawing out the aesthetics of machine learning experiments or the politics of dissection. As big technology companies recast images as infrastructure for their emerging virtual empires, her work questions the politics of the new era of surveillance capitalism while examining the peculiar defects and perplexing repercussions of systems built from stolen pictures. Her work has been screened internationally at various film festivals, including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Antimatter, Athens International Film + Video Festival, BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Black Maria Film Festival, West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Tranås at the Fringe and The Festival of (In)appropriation. Bermudez received a BA from Hampshire College and MFA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her practice examines the entangled relations between people and technologies, prodding at the slippery boundaries between human and informational bodies through essayistic film and video works.