World Premiere
Partly eco-processed 8mm celluloid and tarot become a visual fascia, binding family through a shared fibromyalgia diagnosis and the mysticism of healing. Created in collaboration with the filmmaker’s aunt (a practicing medium), there is a resonance between their respective disciplines, where intuition, ritual, and material process converge. Like the experimental act of filmmaking itself, tarot opens up a lexicon for self-reflection, excavational storytelling, and embodied ways of knowing.
Exploring chronic illness, connection, and the elusive nature of healing, Soft Transmission unfolds as a meditation on kinship, transformation, and the unseen forces that shape our lives. Emphasizing the wisdom of the body and embracing access as artistic form, experimental filmmaker Sara Wylie incorporates open captions directly into her work, descriptive captions (SDH) to transcribe dialogue and important sounds, and creative audio description, inviting audiences into a dialectical experience beyond able-bodied modes of viewing.
Wendy Wallace
Canada
2026
English
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Interior worlds reveal wisdom, intuitive connections, the esoteric, and death. Or is it liberation? A bid to commune with the feminine, other realms, and ghosts.
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Credits & Director
Producer
Sara Wylie
Screenwriter
Sara Wylie
Cinematography
Sara Wylie
Editor
Jessica Johnson, Sara Wylie
Original Music
Scott J. Gailey
Sara Wylie
Sara Wylie (she/they) is a disabled filmmaker, producer, and researcher from the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (aka Vancouver, Canada). Her work focuses on archives and counter-archives, embodied methodologies, disabled ecologies, and crip intimacies. As a director-producer, Sara’s award-winning short documentary and experimental films have screened at film festivals around the world. She graduated with distinction from Toronto Metropolitan University’s Documentary Media MFA Program in 2019, and her projects have been supported by Field of Vision’s IF/THEN Shorts, Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and SSHRC.
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