on screen Mon Apr 15 5pm
Shorts Program
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Matter
The movement of matter is never explicit. This program brings together three works that launch inquiries into the movement of matter as collaboration. Each with a distinct methodology, from cinematic documentary, earthquake as accomplice, to black liberation, and connecting histories of trade, optics, and art. — Steffanie Ling
Sunstone, Filipa CĂŠsar and Louis Henderson North American Premiere, UK/Portugal, 2018, digital, 35 min, English/ Portuguese/Spanish A colonial and visual history of optics conveyed with a strata of 16mm film, desktop screen captures and 3D CGI. Contrasting the system of triangular trade with the political potential of Op Art in post-revolutionary Cuba, Sunstone examines the diverse social contexts of optics, divulging a spectrum of humanist pragmatism, discovery and oppression. See All That Is Solid. P.68.
Labour/Leisure, Ryan Ermacora and Jessica Johnson North American Premiere, Canada, 2019, digital, 19 min, English/Spanish The Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia is marketed as a destination of leisure, recreation, retirement, and wealth. Behind this facade is a largely invisible agricultural labour force, comprised of temporary migrant workers from the Global South. Serpent Rain, Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva Toronto Premiere, Norway, 2016, digital, 30 min, English When prompted by a philosopher to make a film without time, the result is a video that speaks from inside the cut between slavery and resource extraction; between Black Lives Matter and the matter of life; between the state changes of elements, timelessness and tarot. See also 4 Waters: Deep Implicancy at Gallery TPW P.30
84 min
Innis Town Hall University of Toronto 2 Sussex Ave
$12 general admission $6 students, seniors, underemployed
Co-presented with Cinema Politica, Gallery TPW, and Planet in Focus. Arjuna Neuman is a guest of the Goethe-Institut Toronto.
Ryan Ermacora and Jessica Johnson, Labour/Leisure, 2019.