
Echappe
Xinli SheEchappe is about the contradiction between the physical world and inner self. A journey of individualistic expression trapped under the confines imposed by society.
Falling Piece
Yuka MurakamiAn experimental performance film about how we experience the past while still moving forward in life. A woman walks on the beach alone with a memory in mind to forget. Made in response to Clarice Lispector’s Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures.
xīn nī 廖芯妮
Jasmine Liawxīn nī 廖芯妮 (Understanding you) is an intimate auto-ethnographic portrait expressed through dance and digital technologies. As a listening exchange, Liaw engages in intergenerational conversations with her family to transform the linguistic divide between her Chinese name and its Hakka translation. Bodies made up of 3D-rendered cultural objects hold space for the stories of Liaw’s elders, while expanding the growing web of her ancestral knowledge.
As/Is
Natasha WoodsA micro-portrait, a moving-image zine, a family archive. Investigating threads of an intergenerational experience of four generations. The maker inserts herself through the invitation of having her subjects point the camera/mic back at her, embracing the dysfunction, and accepting her position in the family as it presently exists.
Max et les Étranges
Nathan ClementMax goes through an odd night across a hazy city to discover his true self. Along the way, he encounters freaks, inhabitants of a dreamy underworld, who guide him through and in the process, teaching him the value of love.
Medusa
Arina ChernovaAfter a miserable date, Merve seeks the company of her friends in a neighboring hairdressing salon. Her friends try to cheer her up and tell her about their own strange experiences with men. Her mood darkens and she drifts into thoughts of the Gorgon Medusa and her tragic fate. An argument breaks out between the friends about whether Merve herself is to blame for being single.
Physical Rehearsal - Our bodies’ identities through narratives
Turning the 2024 theme Rehearsing Refusal on its head, this official selection of student shorts curated by the festival’s Emerging Curator, Cole Forrest, is a dynamic reflection of “refusing rehearsal.” These six unique, experiential works explore movement within and outside bodies that are remembering, suffering, moving through identity, taking up space, and experiencing change.
2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5
Sidewalk-level entrance, elevator and ramp available, door width 32 inches, no automatic doors. No accessible parking on-site. Four wheelchair accessible seats in the cinema. 15 step-free seats in row 9. Accessible gender-neutral washroom located on the 2nd and 3rd floor.
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