Duties in the Domestic Cinema

XINEMA presents: Duties in the Domestic Cinema, a collection of short films that explore the impact the queer and diasporic experience have on temporal and bodily manipulation. Using the screen as a space to research and connect, these five artists return to the personalized domestic and familiar to better understand themselves and the world around them.

Screening:
Shouldering Intervals of Desire (2021), Danielle Mackenzie Long, 10 min
A human entity lives in an in-between world, where they rely on embodied movement and mundane space to process key decisions.

The Protagonists (2018), Gabi Dao, 8 min
A conflation of cinema, notions of conflict, time and labour, memory and representation.

xīn nī 廖芯妮 (2022), Jasmine Liaw, 7.5 min
A dancer’s body, made up of her family’s ancestral artifacts, responds to a recorded inter-generational conversation with her father.

alphabet/azbuka (2022), Alisa Tarabrina, 5 min
A reflection on childhood language-learning and bilingualism through alphabetical word association.

tendril love (2021), Maymoona Gaid and Wendel Vistan, 6.5 min
An exploration of analog film technologies in telling a story of Mim’s Farm.

Filmmakers in attendance. Q&A after the screening.

XINEMA is an ongoing series that showcases emerging and established filmmakers within and around “Vancouver”, BC to strengthen and preserve the local experimental film scene.