Doors Open: What a Buzz Kill!
The 401 Commons Film Curation

One weekend a year, dozens of sites open their doors for Doors Open Toronto, a city-wide celebration recognized as one of Toronto’s most culturally significant events. The City of Toronto is excited to work with the community to showcase their sites to residents and visitors.

FADO, imagineNATIVE, Reel Asian, SAVAC, and Vtape, collectively known as The Commons @ 401, are pleased to present the film curation What a Buzz Kill! for this year’s city-wide Doors Open event reflecting on the prompt “the world in a city.” We invite drop-in visitors into the Bachir Yerex Presentation Space to view a rotation of short films hand-picked by leading curators, Kelly Lui and Kaitlynn Tomaselli.

Who and what can exist within the city? Through the comings and goings of these five short films, we encounter anxieties, loss, and disconnection in a constantly changing world. In searching for strategies to find belonging, we find guidance from the interconnectedness between the nonhuman and human complexities.  How can we disregard the street-level buzz and listen more closely and intimately to the world around us?