Before anything becomes archival, it’s lived.
Oct 6: Filmmaker Q&A
This short film program includes the following films:
Endless Sunlight
Tyson Houseman, Canada (9 min)
A conversation between kokum Penny Roan and Jennifer Houseman reveals the story of how Penny’s great uncle burned down a residential school.
Content Considerations: Residential schools
Collectors
Andrew Cividino, Canada (15 min)
Chloe discovers the object of her desire at an antique shop.
Shards
Luciana Decker, Bolivia (15 min)
Museological objects are approached as temporal fragments through Decker’s magical editing.
Letters From Tibet
Kunsang Kyirong, Canada (17 min)
How does one think of Tibet? Kyirong investigates the construction of its identity through colonial and cinematic history.
These Voices Are Real
Baran Nikrah, Iran (11 min)
A mother and her daughter spend the day together while waiting for the results of a medical test.
Lovely Butterfly
Fairouz Hasan, Palestine (22 min)
Through faded letters and Google maps, Hasan reconstructs the memory of her father, detained for years in Israeli prisons.
Chuuraa
Evgenia Arbugaeva, UK (18 min)
In the wilderness of the Siberian Arctic, an Indigenous palaeontologist descends into the depths of the melting permafrost in search of an ancient creature.
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Possible Love
Lee Chang-dong’s first film since Burning (2018) is a sardonic, slow-burning satire about two couples: a documentary filmmaker married to a wealthy businessman, and a working-class family struggling to make ends meet after the husband has been laid off.
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Once Upon a Time in Harlem splices together footage shot by William Greaves in 1972 of a group of Harlem Renaissance luminaries in conversation at Duke Ellington’s townhouse. The film is a living archive of memory, disagreement, style, and Black genius.
The Secret in Their Eyes
This month's Talking Pictures screening is a multi-layered, poignant thriller interweaving the personal lives of a prosecution investigator (Ricardo Darin) and a judge, with a manhunt spanning twenty-five years. Stay for cookies, coffee and a chat after!
The Haunting
Directed by Robert Wise in 1963, The Haunting is a classic exercise in the suggestive power of cinema, adapted from Shirley Jackson's 1959 best-seller, The Haunting of Hill House, a provocative blend of supernatural and psychological horror.
