If you missed the December 4th in-person screening, you can find the FOGGY program online December 5 – 10, courtesy of the Toronto Queer Film Festival. How can family memories inform practices of solidarity? How can avant-garde voices engaging the past contribute to activism today? How do private archives queer public histories? How do yesterday’s photographs become tomorrow’s pictures? Foggy is a screening of recent short films that stage hybrid acts of fragmentation, juxtaposition, re-enactment and dialogue. ⊕

November 24 at 7:00 pm, at the Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th floor, 401 Richmond St. W., join C Magazine and Vtape
for the premiere screening of Lisa Smolkin’s Grafter (2022), and her subsequent performance in response to a text written by art critic and curator Charlene K. Lau, as predicted by the cosmos. Admission free; first come, first seated! ⊕

Enjoy this oral walkthrough of Dana Claxton’s video work, presented in the recent Vtape / imagineNATIVE exhibition The Dreaming: Dana Claxton’s Video Work, curated by Winston Xin ⊕

Vtape is proud to support this immersive multimedia installation, inspired by artist Emmie Tsumura’s evolving relationship with a motley crew of pigeons who visit her kitchen windowsill to eat snacks and hang out on toy keyboards. At the Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space, 4th fl., 401 Richmond St. West. ⊕

Dana Claxton is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist working in video, film, performance art, installations, and photography. The Dreaming is a survey of her video works, which deal with anti-colonialist tactics and Lakota mysticism, ideologies, and aesthetics, mixed with her personal observations of our contemporary culture. Co-presented with the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (Oct. 17 – 29, 2023). ⊕