Slips and Stickiness
Films
a tangled web drowning in honey
“a tangled web drowning in honey” is an experiential and textural short film that invites viewers into the inner workings of a mind to ponder the ways in which we love and unlove ourselves.
Atmospheric Arrivals
“Atmospheric Arrivals” is about home and the (im)possibility of return. An “atmospheric arrival” captures a means of coming into being through memory and imagination, by reaching across spacetimes to “fetch” parts of the self that may exist elsewhere.
First Months of Freedom
“First Months of Freedom” follows a woman’s first months off parole in the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Landmarks of Memory
A tattoo ritual and hookah session memorializes a pre-war flower shop. After seeing its storefront in archival footage of the Lebanese Civil War, a first-generation daughter seeks information and connection to place.
Homegrown
“Homegrown” is an experimental documentary that explores the complicated process of decolonization and reveals how our memory and history are ingrained in our sense of identification.
sway/pull
As the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the disappearance of queer spaces across Toronto, “sway / pull” offers a meditation on the erosion of Hanlan’s Point Beach in both literal and figurative senses.
Çås¢a∂ing €®r0r Win∂0ws
“Çås¢a∂ing €®r0r Win∂0ws” is a project about love, death, connection, the future, and the afterlife. It is an exploration of artificial intelligence, human consciousness, and embodiment that troubles deeply held convictions about what it means to be alive, to be a person, and to be in conversation with another.
In person at Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, and online at TQFF.ca
We are entangled in complex relations with the world around us. How can film explore this more than human entanglement, and the complexity of queer lives, especially given the limits of representation? How can our bodies and identities be reconstituted outside histories narrated by power? How can we be present when things slide out of place? These experimental films consider the entanglement of place, bodies, identities, and consciousness as a confrontation with the compulsory linearity of history.