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Wedding Nigun for Boruch and
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The Moment |
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Quiet celebrations, narcissistic acts and introspective diversions
frame particular moments of these artists’ lives and demonstrate
the art and struggle of self-expression. |
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In the Garden
Larissa Fan | Canada | 1 min. | 16mm | 2003
Quiet observations in the garden allow the divine beauty and calming
power of nature to appease the eyes and soul. |
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Back to Me
Erik Rutherford | France/Canada | 10 min. | video | 2002 | Canadian
Premiere
Narcissus before a gilded mirror, displayed for the camera. A simple
act of grooming staged on a rooftop in the afternoon sun. |
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The End
of Thought
Jorge Lozano | Canada | 8 min. | video | 2002
Lozano’s witty visual play explores the ideas of territory
and exclusion and laments on how people from Colombia are represented
in Western culture as gun-toting soldiers, ghostly apparitions or
Latin lovers. Saturated colours, words as image and snappy video
effects are used to throw these stereotypes back in our face. This
“other” world he is from becomes inescapable, especially
when he attempts to get back into Canada’s borders. |
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self-portrait in 5 Vowels
Karen Guttman | Canada | 6 min. | video | 2003 | Toronto Premiere
By dissecting the bewildering and difficult process of using words
for self-portraiture, Guttman focuses on the physical sensation
of communicating through bodily and facial movements instead of
through language. Being at a loss for words doesn’t necessarily
impede expression. |
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Pangyau
Amir Muhammad | Malaysia |
13 min. | video 2002 | Toronto Premiere
Amir Muhammad reflects on an old friendship. Although separated
by diet and religion, race and language, two young men created a
strong bond across the Malay/Chinese divide. Now they are separated
by a stronger divide – time and memory. |
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Afterthoughts on a Legend
Abraham Ravett | USA | 10 min. | 16mm silent | 2002 | Canadian Premiere
An unlikely conduit to a quiet mediation on travel, place and transience
is created through images of Buddha carved in stone and a woman
straight from a Japanese animated space opera. |
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Gold
Karen Kew | Canada | 6 min. | video | 2003 | Toronto Premiere
By contrasting a 1960s Chinese restaurant in a southern Ontario
town with images from pre-revolutionary China, Gold questions how
cultural memory is constructed through immigrant experiences. |
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The Moment
Minyong Jang | South Korea | 5 min. | 16mm b&w silent | 2003
Toronto Premiere
By capturing the subtle movements and gestures of a newborn baby
in exquisite close-up photography, this elegant study of light and
form becomes a celebration of newly created life. |
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Materstina
(Langue Maternelle)
Mirha-Soleil Ross & Mark Karbusicky | Canada | 12 min. | video
b&w | 2003
A Czech woman struggles to find the right words to narrate the
experience of her exile in Canada. The effects of a language barrier,
particularly between her and her children, create a sense of loss
and longing in a woman who had to start a new life. |
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Wedding Nigun for Boruch
and Menucha
Neil Ira Needleman | USA | 5 min. | video silent | 2003 | Toronto Premiere
By overlapping and looping footage from a Hassidic wedding, Needleman
layers images the way an audio mixer lays down tracks. Nigun means
“song” in Hebrew, and this video erupts into a visual
chorus of dancing celebration for the newly wedded couple. |
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