Latin & Canadian Experimental Films 

Friday, October 4th - 9:00pm
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(We regret to inform you that this venue is not wheelchair accessible)

*ALL FILMS WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES*

Regular screenings are restricted to those 18 years of age or older according to the Ontario Theatres  Act.

Wild Flowers

Alejandra Higuera

2019 - Canada -3’ - Animation

Wildflowers highlights all the courageous migrant people that have been forced to leave their land and loved ones. Especially the QT2SBIPOC immigrant/migrant experiences, who are super vulnerable, particularly Trans people, of who we celebrate, love and want to thrive.

LAL has long advocated for safe spaces and continues to create electronic music’s initial vision of creating spaces where people come together to feel safer, dance, explore sexuality, take care of each other, and collectively heal. ‘Dark Beings’ reflects the continued resilience of our communities.

Grabados del Ojo Nocturno | Flores Silvestres

Jean-Jacques Martinod

2016 - Moroco & Ecuador, Documentary/Experimental

Awards:

• Alchemy Film Festival

A collage of memories turned sensory vision and ritual travelogue, from the Sahara desert to the waters of South America, passing through an old ancestors abode.
 

Parsi
Eduardo Williams y Mariano Blatt
2019, Argentina, Suiza, Guineau Bissau, 23’
Awards:

• Cinéma du réel

• Boulder International Film Festival

No es (It isn’t) is a cumulative poem which constant writing process extends over a lifetime. The text of the poem can cover anything. With that list of “what seems to be but isn’t”, Parsi observes in a perpetual movement the spaces and people to create another poem that is caressed, crashes and spins next to No es.

It Matters What

Francisca Duran

2019 - Canada 9´  Experimental

Awards:

• Edinburgh Int'l Film Festival

• Vastlab experimental film festival

Absences and translations motivate this experimental animation in an exploration of the methods and materials of reproduction and inscription. The inquiry is set within a framework of practical and critical human relationships with other-than-human-species elucidated by the theorist Donna Haraway.

A fragment from Haraway’s essay & “Tentacular” Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene,Chthulucene is reworked here as a poetic manifesto. Enigmatic found-footage calls into question human violence over animal species. Plant life is both the subject matter of the images and assists the means of photographic reproduction. The techniques used include in-camera animation, contact prints and phytograms created by the exposure of 16mm film overlaid with plant material and dried for hours in direct sunlight.

Los Años | The Years

Sumie Garcia

2019 - Mexico 8´ - Documentary/Experimental

Birthdays and their celebrations are a pervasive way with which we measure our lives and the passage of time. The Years is a meditation on time, memory and mortality through our representation in images and rituals throughout our lives. A representation of the circular nature of time and generational continuity, the short film ultimately highlights the abstract ways in which we understand time and collective experience.