Through formal experimentation based on the artist’s personal struggle with gender identity, a singular self has been split into two.
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Taliesin Mason-McCrea
Canada
2022
English
Flashing/Strobing Lights
Featured in:
VIFF Short Forum: Program 2
Fear, doubt, and loneliness give way to pleasure, empowerment, and reclamation—or, is it the other way around?
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Sentimental Value
A once-revered director crashes back into his family’s lives, eager to recruit his daughter for a film role. When she declines, he finds a new muse in an eager but unpolished Hollywood star, sending his botched reconciliation spiraling into chaos.
The Ice Tower
In Lucile Hadžihalilović's spellbinding fantasy drama, an orphan (Clara Pacini) becomes enthralled by a movie star (Marion Cotillard) playing the Snow Queen in a fairy tale film adaptation. Winner of the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution.
La Grazia
A contemplative, mournful but richly imagined movie about a retiring Italian President (Toni Servillo from The Great Beauty) facing two thorny ethical decisions that may define his legacy.
Image: © Andrea Pirrello
Innocence
Lucile Hadžihalilović's first feature is a suggestive, subversive fairy tale set in a private school for young girls, the kind of film David Lynch might have made, if he'd been born a French woman in the early 1960s.
Where to Land
Hal Hartley's first new film in a decade is a melancholy farce about mortality and what we'll call "late middle-age". Bill Sage is a semi-retired filmmaker who isn't dying faster than the rest of us but who behaves like he might be.
La venue de l'avenir
Four cousins are tapped to investigate an abandoned house that is their joint inheritance. As they explore, they learn their story of their ancestor Adele (Suzanne Lindon) and her foray into Paris in the age of Impressionism.
Credits
Producer
Sidney Gordon
Screenwriter
Sidney Gordon
Cinematography
Emil Vargas
Original Music
Aysha Dulong
Director
Sidney Gordon
Sidney Gordon is a queer multimedia emulsion-based artist, born and raised on Treaty 4 territory. They hold a Bachelor of Media Arts in Film + Screen Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in so-called “Vancouver,” where they currently reside. In 2022, they won the Chancellor’s Award, Best Experimental Film, and the VIVO Distribution Award, and were longlisted for The Polygon Gallery’s Lind Prize in 2021. Their film and cameraless-photo works have been shown both locally and internationally.