FilmFeature

barrunto

Saturday, March 29, 2025
6:30–8:00pm EST
In Person
Tranzac Club
Online
TQFF.ca
Coming soon
Director
Emilia Beatriz

Emilia Beatriz is an artist, access-worker, and beekeeper-in-study. Their films weave historical and speculative narratives, centering sensorial/poetic storytelling, grounded in conversation, oral history, and community archiving. They use film, photography, text, sound,andperformance to witness and build embodied stories of dreaming, action and resistance. Beatriz is co-founder of CollectiveText, a collaborative working process committed to practicing disability justice and supporting accessibility in art and film through creative captioning, audio description, and interpretation.

Director
Morgan Sears-Williams

Morgan Sears-Williams practice embraces the use of analog film as a form of projected image and as a sculptural material, considering space and queerness through analog technologies. Bridging eco-processing, experimental film and queer history (both personal and political) she aims to create intimate experiences for viewers to expand their ideas of queer space and time. In support of her artwork and research, Morgan received the graduate scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in 2023, and has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.

Collaborator
Claude Nouk

Claude Nouk is an audio producer, sound designer and composer currently based in Marseille, France, originally from New York. After receiving a degree in Sound for the Moving Image with honours at Glasgow School of Art in 2021 they have gone on to work on numerous projects situating sound with film, dance, theatre, beat production and rock bands.

Collaborator
Harry Josephine Giles

Harry Josephine Giles is from Orkney and lives in Leith. Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia was published by Picador in October 2021 and won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Stirling. Her show Drone debuted in the Made in Scotland Showcase at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and toured internationally.

Collaborator
Shanti Lalita

Shanti Lalita is an interdisciplinary artist who blends cello performance and spoken word poetry. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Shanti draws inspiration from their queer, non-binary Afro-Caribbean identity and cultural heritage. Shanti uses sound improvisation and poetry to explore identity and diaspora.

Collaborator
Nicole Cecilia Delgado

Nicole Cecilia Delgado is a poet, translator, and book artist. She is the founder and co-director of La Impresora, a small-scale poetry press and Risograph print studio in Puerto Rico.

90 min.

The short film through the bushes and the trees, you’ll find me will be followed by the feature presentation of barrunto.

Barrunto is available with spanish subtitles here.

Contains flashing images and may not be suitable for photosensitive viewers.

through the bushes and the trees, you’ll find me
Morgan Sears-Williams • 4 min • Canada • 2024

Morgan Sears-Williams’s expressive 16mm work, through the bushes and the trees, you’ll find me, captures lovers kissing at Toronto’s Hanlan’s Point Beach, their intimate moments overlaid with a second strip of film, hole-punched and painstakingly taped together. A resonant piece, it lingers on the tenderness between lovers, set against the fluid waters of the beach. The hole-punched film acts as a symbolic peephole, reflecting the cruising areas on the beach that invite both spectatorship and participation. Meditating on tenderness and care, environmental erosion, and queer activist history, the work thoughtfully navigates complex themes of pleasure and political resistance.

barrunto
Emilia Beatriz • 70 min •
Puerto Rico/UK • 2024

Emilia Beatriz’s expansive debut feature, barrunto (2024), unfolds to explore transversal relations and speculative fictions. The film’s title, barrunto, refers to a sensation of bodily unrest or an omen, a feeling that anticipates change, often sensed through embodied or environmental signals—like aching bones before rain or the emergence of ants before an earthquake. This sensorial language and environmental engagement permeates barrunto, translating grief, longing, and resistance into visceral forms. Emphasizing collective poetics across borders over authoritative authorship, barrunto is written in collaboration with artists Shanti LaLita, Claude Nouk, Alicia Matthews, Harry Josephine Giles, Nicole Cecilia Delgado.

Blending digital, archival, and hand-processed 16mm film, barrunto never settles, drifting from the streets of Puerto Rico, to the sites of nuclear contamination and military occupation in Scotland, and even as far as the bottom of the ocean and the planet Uranus. Poetic and ruminating, barrunto is a shifting response and attempt to think through the embodied ethics and interdependence of co-existence between human and non-human.

 

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