New Visions

Sunday July 23, 5pm
LabO Theatre, 10 Daly Ave.
Pay-what-you-can / Suggested admission $10

Explore innovative approaches to the art of filmmaking in this program of short experimental works. Co-presented by Digital Arts Resource Centre.

LIGHT LEAK
Nate Dorr, USA, 2021, 8.5 min.
Ottawa premiere

Light is information, a signal more lasting than recollection. If there’s anyone out there to receive the message. Isolated in a sealed apartment, a lone observer regards an outside world outside become increasingly unreal or unreachable. Archaic illuminations, old slides and the pin-lights of the camera obscura crawl across the walls. Connections fray. Time loses meaning. A science fictional essay film, or its inverse. A rumination on optics, memory, data and endings.

HEARTH OF THE LION
Vicki Van Chau, Canada, 2021, 6.5 min.
Ottawa premiere

HEARTH OF THE LION illustrates the bond between three brothers, with their dedication, discipline and passion on display, as they embody the powerful movements of the lion and the fire of the wok hearth.

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A MOSQUITO
Walter Smits, USA, 2020, 10.5 min.
Canadian premiere

A love letter to the things we will stop remembering, to childhood and to conversations that don’t matter. This video was once a love letter to someone who doesn’t much matter anymore. It is a love letter to walks in the woods, water’s-edge flowers and moss covered logs. It’s a love letter to my fear of memory loss, to which I don’t sign my name.

THE GUY ON THE BED
Mike Hoolboom, Canada, 2021, 4 min.
Canadian premiere

News from another pandemic, the one that ‘changed everything’ before it fell out of the news cycle and collective memory, except for the newly infected, or those who, like myself, managed a new life after death. Based on a text by David Wojnarowicz.

FOUR SEASONS BOUQUET
Emma Roufs, Canada, 2022, 3.5 min.
Ontario premiere

Nature and body at work over the course of a still yet disorderly year on a foreign land.

TIME CRYSTALS
Abinadi Meza, Mexico, 2021, 5.5 min.
Ontario premiere

This is a film about time and temporal material. Narrated by a synthetic entity who seems to be assembling a film while “she” narrates, with an ambiguous relationship between what she says and what we see. Sometimes the relationship is uncanny, sometimes illuminating, and sometimes dissonant. Her narrative loops and shifts, and in time it is almost as if other, branching films emerge in the spaces between, in our own mental images, memories, and cinematic consciousness.

TRANS-FORM(AT)IONS
Andrée Préfontaine, Canada, 2022, 8.5 min.
Ottawa premiere

TRANS-FORM(AT)IONS is an experimental art video which formally explores the aesthetics of various thermoformed packing materials. Fascinated by the quasi-landscape they generated when placing them one next to the other, I gradually imagined this could represent a cityscape whose architecture was renewed by avoiding angular buildings and huge flat surfaces.

AT LAKE
Mistaya Hemingway, Canada, 2022, 12.5 min.
Ottawa premiere

AT LAKE is a surreal meditation on nature and the relationships between movement, landscape and chance. Interpreted through the lens of our current time and shot in Eastern Québec, AT LAKE is a revisioning of Maya Deren’s iconic 1944 film, AT LAND. AT LAKE is driven by the themes of exploration, separation, duplicity and connection.

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