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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
1976, 10:53 minutes, colour
tapecode 2162.06
Cole and Dale’s second student film is a tribute to their friends living alternative lifestyles in downtown Toronto during the 1970’s. We meet a transexual, homosexual, streetwalker and trio of drag performers. The filmmakers structure their film to bring the audience into their world, relate to them, breakdown… ⊕
In 1972, visual artist/filmmaker Peter Dudar and dancer/ choreographer Lily Eng formed a multimedia partnership named MISSING ASSOCIATES. INVENT A NEW VOCABULARY. START FROM ZERO. OBSERVE AND INCORPORATE INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT. MISSING ASSOCIATES [NOTES 1972] MISSING ASSOCIATES started the first wave of performance art and… ⊕
MisTik follows Cree twins who carry the last of the healthy trees on their backs in hopes of saving the world they once knew.
The videotape MONEY is assembled from downloaded MP4 sequences depicting exchange and currency transfers – whether digital or old school paper variety. This hyper-pecuniary landscape also hosts a cellphone dialogue between two friends overwhelmed by technological determinism and by post-post Fordist economies strained… ⊕
2025, 17:27 minutes, B&W and colour
tapecode 653.21
Monument is an experimental documentary that pairs chemically altered Super 8 footage of the decaying monuments of Presidents Park (Croaker, VA), with original and community-sourced video footage captured on Monument Avenue (Richmond, VA) between 2020 and 2025. Themes of registration and re-calibration, and metaphor and… ⊕