Saturday | Oct 19 | 6pm
Screening @ Deluge
Cellula Filia
Watch Online Free: Sunday, Oct 20 (24hrs)
Albums de familles [Family Albums]
Moïa Jobin-Paré | 2023 | Canada | 8 min | Vic Premiere
Photographic images, scenes of everyday life. Connected together, a new landscape emerges.
A filmmaker at the crossroads of animation and photography, Jobin-Paré maintains a multidisciplinary approach to making art dedicated to the contemporary image and its hybrid forms and which brings together practices she is fond of: moving image, pictorial work, analog and digital technologies and sound. She has developed and honed techniques of scratching silver processed photographs, which she now exhibits and uses to create original short films.
The Box
Caroline Rumley | 2024 | USA | 10 min | World Premiere
Old photos live in a box, each with a good tale attached. But the memories that surface are another story. And these have to go. Sometimes you find yourself doing things that seem too familiar, things you swore you would never do. Maybe you feel compelled to break the cycle, to “stop the insanity,” as a friend calls it. Making The Box is part of that process for me. As such, it is a personal archive documentary dealing with memory, inter-generational trauma, grief and hope.
Caroline Rumley is a Southern filmmaker who collages solo-shot film, found and archival footage, text, and sound to tell sometimes uncomfortable stories. Her films have screened internationally at varied venues—from Canada’s Antimatter Media Art to Amsterdam’s IDFA to Berlin's Zebra Poetry Film Fest to Sundance. Caroline holds an MFA in Theatrical Design from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MA in Film, Video and Digital Imaging from Georgia State University.
to be with you (grotto)
Sarah Ballard | 2023 | USA | 3 min | Cdn Premiere
to be with you (grotto) fuses 16mm hand-processed film and digital artifacts in an attempt to adapt a love song written and performed by my mother in the 1980s.
Sarah Ballard is a filmmaker and educator based in Milwaukee, WI. Her work has screened at festivals such as Antimatter [aedia art], San Diego Underground Film Festival, Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Onion City Experimental Film Festival and Montreal Independent Film Festival.
Semi-precious
Kara Ditte Hansen | 2024 | Canada/USA | 15 min | Cdn Premiere
Semi-precious is a portrait of my mother, a retired holistic practitioner framed through her crystals, supplements, jewelry, healing instruments and household adornments. Handwritten labels populate the exteriors of these objects to recall their emotional or spiritual use and are a vital remedy to her memory loss. Geologic and mortal time become enmeshed through weathered landscapes, wrinkled hands, vibrating exercise machines, sound representations of planets, resonant quartz crystals in clock faces and the profile of the oldest earth rock identified, the moon.
Kara Ditte Hansen works with experimental non-fiction filmmaking and cinematic portraiture. Her artistic practice looks at human and non-human relationships with the material of the earth, systems of extraction and waste and how these seemingly external materials collide with the interior worlds of individuals. She received her MFA from the Cinematic Arts program at University of Milwaukee – Wisconsin where she now lives part-time. Her filmography includes Semi-precious, Unspeakable Heap, Companion and An Event So Fast. Recently, her films have screened at Prismatic Ground, Vancouver International Film Festival, Flat Earth Film Festival, Vertical Cinema, Gene Siskel Film Center, Onion City Film Festival and Antimatter.
Tell No Tales
Sarah Sanchez-Kelley | 2023 | USA | 8 min | Cdn Premiere
A young woman returns to her hometown to settle her late estranged father’s affairs.
Sarah Sanchez-Kelley is a Filipina-American writer, filmmaker and comedian based in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds an MFA in Filmmaking from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Arts from Emory University in English/Creative Writing and Film.
Tütarrakk [Cellula Filia]
Piibe Kolka | 2023 | Estonia | 20 min | Cdn Premiere
A conversation through time between a woman and her great grandmother. Kolka uses a PXL 2000 toy camera to record pixelated visuals and various messages on audio cassettes in an attempt to establish a time travelling communication. The film probes an epigenetic hypothesis that individual life experiences could influence biological inheritance and gene expressions. The result is a science fictional play between generations, addressing life histories, inherited doubt and the search for possible adventures.
Piibe Kolka is a filmmaker, filmworker and artist working with video, sound and performance. She is drawn to artist moving image as a personal practice with ample room for experimentation and inquiry into the audiovisual, temporal and rhythmic peculiarities of the genre. By alternating between questions of what is happening? and how does it feel? she explores the intensities of presence in films. Currently she delights in the format of Pixelvision video recorded on audio cassettes—a pixelated, fluttering change of pace to the abundance of extremely high-definition playbacks. Kolka has previously worked in New York as a cinematographer and editor of documentaries, narrative features and artist films. She studied anthropology at Tallinn University and documentary and experimental film at the New School in New York.
Saturday | Oct 19 | 8pm
Screening @ Deluge
Night Trawler
In-Person Screening: Night Trawler
Student/Older Adult $6 (use code 25OFF at checkout)
Watch Online Free: Sunday, Oct 20 (24hrs)
Reversal
Diane Nerwen | 2023 | USA/Canada | 7 min | Cdn Premiere
Reversal combines images and sounds from movies released or broadcast in 1973, the year the Supreme Court decided Roe v Wade. In the strange new reality ushered in by the Dobbs decision, the slogan “We won’t go back” is recalled with bitter irony. This collage piece evokes the spectre of regression and repression that has followed the Court’s decision.
Diane Nerwen is a video artist and art educator. She has shown her work internationally, including screenings and exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Guggenheim Museum, NY, the Tate Modern, London, carriage trade, NY and the Berlin Film Festival. Nerwen was born in Montreal and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
reality_collapse
Aaron Fletcher Ross | 2024 | USA | 5 min | Cdn Premiere
This short collage piece constructs a pseudo-narrative on the dangers of media seduction, addiction and withdrawal from reality. Mainstream science fiction film and TV is manipulated via analog video synthesis and assembled into a musical montage of sensory overload. Paranoid psychosis is not as rare as it once was.
Aaron F. Ross is a video producer, author and educator. His abstract video and computer animation has screened at festivals and venues such as SIGGRAPH, ISEA and the Exploratorium. Aaron has worked as a director, editor, videographer, 3D computer graphic artist, sound designer and university faculty member. He holds an MFA from CalArts and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Flower Cult of Amelia Earhart
Rebecca Barten | 2024 | USA | 6 min | Cdn Premiere
A synaptic celluloid requiem, propelling the High Priestess Aviator Earhart through far-sighted passages of flora, fauna, air, fire and water.
Rebecca Barten is an experimental filmmaker and collage artist. She has made poetic works both in 16mm film and video and was the co-founder of Total Mobile Home Microcinema in San Francisco and Exploded View Microcinema in Tucson.
If Only You Could See What I’ve Seen With Your Eyes
Jack Dagg-Cronin | 2024 | USA | 5 min | Cdn Premiere
This film centres around a scene in Blade Runner in which the main character, Rick Deckard, is examining a photograph using a machine that allows him to zoom in on certain parts of the picture. Not only is he able to zoom in, but it’s revealed that he can also look around and behind objects within the photograph. In doing so, Deckard can draw out clues that, from the perspective of current technology, it would seem impossible to see. Deckard’s investigation in the film ultimately reveals things not just about the case he’s working on, but also about himself.
Jack Dagg-Cronin is an artist, filmmaker and educator from Ann Arbor, Michigan, whose work typically explores of the world around us. Dagg-Cronin's creative interests delve into both the tangible and the abstract, blending documentary and experimental techniques to unveil the essence of urban and natural landscapes. His artistic vision often reflects the rhythmic dance of the seasons and offers poetic interpretations of locale. Cronin’s work has been included in film festivals, museums and galleries worldwide. Notable venues include Tacoma Film Festival, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Anthology Film Archives New York, Chicago International Film Festival and Media City Film Festival, among many others.
Deep Dreaming Flowers to AltAir V.2
Les LeVeque | 2024 | USA | 6 min | Cdn Premiere
Deep Dreaming Flowers is a recording of a live signal analog video/audio synthesizer performance with a voiced narration made in collaboration with an AI program. A speculative machine-guided psychedelic broadcast of an astral floral projection. A fictional telepathic transmission that saturates the boundaries of perception with interlacing signals of interconnected consciousness.
Les LeVeque is an artist based in New York who works with digital and analog electronic technology. Their work includes single and multi-channel videos, video/computer-based/film installations and live video synthesizer performances. LeVeque's work often utilizes algorithmic structures, statistically distributed elements, experimentation with the boundaries of interfaces, the use and misuse of current and obsolete technologies.
Glitter for Girls
Federica Foglia | 2023 | Canada/Italy | 4 min | W Cdn Premiere
Glitter for Girls is a handmade tattoo film that utilizes a camera-less direct-on-film animation approach to collage multiple layers of water tattoos (commonly used by children). Foglia, known for her tactile work on celluloid, this time intervenes on the 16mm polyester base of recycled film scraps and treats the water-based tattoos as film emulsion—creating an abstract animation inspired by the playful legacy of Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren.
Federica Foglia is interested in issues of migration, citizenship and identity, displacement, women of the diaspora, migrant temporalities and finding a visual language to investigate these experiences. Her practice revolves around recycled cinema, amateur filmmaking, imaginary archives. Foglia holds a BA in Multimedia Languages and Digital Computing for Humanities: History of Art, Theatre and Cinema from the University of Naples L’Orientale, an MFA in Film from York University, Toronto and is currently a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Arts at York University. Her award-winning works have been exhibited widely across the globe.
Night Trawler
Michael Fleming | 2024 | Netherlands | 20 min | World Premiere
In Night Trawler we drag the nets through the dark caverns of our sub-conscious, diving into the world of dreams, entering gateways and discovering (un)related found images. Our minds constantly jump from one thought to another with no apparent logic as we attempt to assemble and interpret these disparate pieces.
Michael Fleming is an Amsterdam-based visual artist. In essence his work appropriates iconic cultural images, altering them to highlight underlying issues. His “moving paintings” are primarily made out of found footage, using feature films, advertising and pop-cultural scenes compiled into a mesmerizing montage of images. Flemings work has been featured in exhibitions and film festivals internationally.