Tending To Ta
(Tending) (to) (Ta) is a mind-bending work of speculative fiction that follows an exchange of letters between two protagonists who imagine one another across parallel dimensions. Each communicating to an other who exists as a possibility beyond their self-perceived boundaries of reality, the two beings meet in a shared world of imagination. In the figure of the eponymous protagonist, April Lin 林森 meshes the concepts of ‘ta’, the monosyllabic sound that in Mandarin Chinese encompasses all third person pronouns, with the proper noun Ta, creating an infinite cosmic entity who exists across universes and is present in all beings and matter.
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(Tending) (to) (Ta)
April Lin
(Tending) (to) (Ta) is a mind-bending work of speculative fiction that follows an exchange of letters between two protagonists who imagine one another across parallel dimensions. Each communicating to an other who exists as a possibility beyond their self-perceived boundaries of reality, the two beings meet in a shared world of imagination. In the figure of the eponymous protagonist, April Lin 林森 meshes the concepts of ‘ta’, the monosyllabic sound that in Mandarin Chinese encompasses all third person pronouns, with the proper noun Ta, creating an infinite cosmic entity who exists across universes and is present in all beings and matter.
April Lin 林森 (b. 1996, Stockholm — they/them) is an autistic artist-filmmaker investigating image-making as a site for the construction, sustenance, and dissemination of co-existent yet conflicting truths. They dream & explore & critique & fret & catastrophize & imagine & play with the potentials that the moving image holds — for a collective remembering of forgotten pasts, for a critical examination of normalized presents, and for a visualizing of freer futures as, of course, imagined from the periphery.
Long after Us
Eden Potter
In a post-apocalyptic, post-human future, a creature discovers remnants of past lifetimes. They find a long abandoned cell phone, which allows them to briefly peer into the life of a human named Ash. Under their curious gaze, this recovered artifact reveals an intimate diary of personal transformation across time. Through motifs of memory, death and transgender identity, this film shines light on the beauty and complexities of the human experience.
Eden Potter is a Toronto based artist and animator who is design oriented and loves all things storytelling. Her goals are to push boundaries with a passion for the cute and the creepy. Eden dreams of building a better world both in and outside of animation.