Tuesday, November, 26th 2024
Conversation: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Vtape, Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 452 Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8

OPEN FORUM is a “last Tuesdays” monthly series of conversations about putting anti-racism on screen and is co-presented by York’s Cinema & Media Arts,imagineNATIVE, CFMDC, Reel Asian International Film Festival, Vtape, Cinemobilia, Toronto Film & Media Seminar, York’s Graduate Film Student Association, U of T’s Cinema Studies Institute, OCADU’s Art & Social Change, and TMU Image Arts, World Records, and York AMPD.

This month, Canadian filmmakers Esery Mondesir and Isiah Medina will be in conversation. Both artists have screened and exhibited nationally and internationally. Mondesir’s work has been shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Open City Festival, the Eastman Museum, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, and Medina, whose films include 88:88 (2015), Inventing the Future (2020), Night is Limpid (2022), and He Thought He Died (2023) have played at Locarno, TIFF, NYFF, Jeonju, among other film festivals.

Image credit: Una Sola Sangre, Esery Mondesir (2018)