Moving Images

Saturday July 22, 1pm
LabO Theatre, 10 Daly Ave.
Pay-what-you-can / Suggested admission $10

A moving and thought-provoking showcase of short dramas, spoken word, music and dance films. Co-presented by Carleton University Art Gallery.

AMSTERDAM TO TOKYO
Conan Karpinski, Canada, 2022, 4 min.
Ontario premiere

Separated by cities, two lovers must come to terms with the distance that lies between them and the challenges it brings.

PICTURE YOURSELF
Tracey Lavigne, Canada, 2022, 7 min.
Ottawa premiere

An agoraphobic woman resists going with her partner to a family funeral, triggering a crisis point in their relationship.

SILK
Lance Kenneth Blakney, Canada, 2022, 3 min.
Ontario premiere

What is beauty? Who is God? What does it all mean? In a fever dream, Heather Silk explores these fundamental questions of life. Shot on 16mm film.

L’INNU DU FUTUR (THE FUTURE INNU)
Stéphane Nepton, Canada, 2021, 5.5 min.
Ottawa premiere

An ode to the land in relation to my double identity as an urban Indigenous person. A story that is both personal and poetic.

MOTH
Kate Weare & Jack Flame Sorokin, USA, 2023, 5.5 min.
Canadian premiere

MOTH explores female desire in a darkened space of imagination, using a single light source: a lantern. The film complicates ideas of sexual objectification, regret, and loss by tracing the flux of whose feelings matter most in the act of coupling.

EN ATTENDANT LOLO (WAITING FOR LOLO)
Jules Ronfard, Canada, 2022, 8 min.

On a country road, a couple gone for a ride on a scooter find themselves immobilized after running out of gas. While waiting for their friend Lolo, a philosophical discussion ensues.

NIPI UTAIAMUN (THE WORDS OF THE WATER)
Uapukun Mestokosho, Canada, 2023, 5 min.
Ontario premiere

Dive into this poetic essay on the filmmaker’s intergenerational relationship with water. Of Innu origin, Uapukun Mestokosho grew up in Ekuanitshit on the North Shore region of Quebec. Proud of her culture, she is also involved in politics to defend one of our greatest treasures: nature. In NIPI UTAIAMUN, she pays an emotional tribute to the healing and spiritual virtues of water.

GROWN IN DARKNESS
Devin Shears, Canada, 2022, 17 min.

Henry lives alone on his farm growing rhubarb in a dark cellar when his friend Emmanuel arrives to collect the harvest. Together the two spend a few days tentatively exploring the boundaries of their relationship in this short film about loneliness and longing in the later years of life.