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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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Director

Sidney Gordon

Cast

Taliesin Mason-McCrea

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Country of Origin

Canada

Year

2022

Language

English

Film Contact

Sidney Gordon

Links

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Flashing/Strobing Lights

8 min

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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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Train Dreams

Dir. Clint Bentley

104 min

Festival Encores

A lovely, ruminative movie set in the Pacific Northwest in the first half of the last century. Robert (Joel Edgerton) is a lumberjack, a taciturn man who comes to appreciate the life slipping between his fingers.

Fri Nov 07, Mon Nov 10, Tue Nov 11, Wed Nov 12, Thu Nov 13, Fri Nov 14, Sat Nov 15, Sun Nov 16, Mon Nov 17, Tue Nov 18, Wed Nov 19, Thu Nov 20

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Wisdom of Happiness

Dir. Philip Delaquis & Barbara Miller

90 min

An audience with the Dalia Lama, who, at 90, looks back on his life and shares the tenets of Buddhism as a practical guide to surviving the 21st Century with joy and compassion.

Fri Nov 07, Mon Nov 10, Tue Nov 11, Wed Nov 12, Thu Nov 13, Sat Nov 15

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Force of Evil

Dir. Abraham Polonsky

79 min

Film Studies

Director-screenwriter Abraham Polonsky uses the mob-controlled "numbers" racket to highlight the soul-destroying elements of capitalism in this punchy noir crime drama. Introduced by Mike Archibald.

Mon Nov 10

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Köln 75

Dir. Ido Fluk

116 min

Festival Encores

The true story behind the greatest solo concert in jazz history, this is Keith Jarrett's legendary 1975 Köln Concert — as organized by 18-year-old rebel music promoter Vera Brandes. Fun, inventive and feminist, it's the Bend It Like Beckham of jazz films.

Mon Nov 10, Wed Nov 12, Tue Nov 18, Wed Nov 19

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Urchin

Dir. Harris Dickinson

99 min

This impressive, award-winning debut as writer-director from actor Harris Dickinson is a probing portrait of a troubled street kid trying to get his life back on track before it's too late.

Mon Nov 10

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Orwell: 2+2=5

Dir. Raoul Peck

119 min

Festival Encores

Oscar-nominated director Raoul Peck reimagines 1984 in this urgent essay on power, language, and control. With narration by Damian Lewis, it’s a chilling portrait of how Orwell’s warnings became our reality.

Mon Nov 10, Tue Nov 11, Fri Nov 14, Mon Nov 17, Tue Nov 18, Tue Nov 25, Wed Nov 26

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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.