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Image credit: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)
The dickinsonia is a 550-million-year-old sea organism whose soft body has left very few fossils. The rare traces of its existence have left the scientific community doubtful. Similarly to this old life form, our oldest memories, blurry and unclassified at the depth of our minds, only seem to leave vague impressions. These… ⊕
The dickinsonia is a sea organism whose soft body has left very few fossils. Similarly to this old life form, our oldest memories only seem to leave vague impressions. These visceral stories, written in the flesh but almost inaudible, could resurface. Unexplained and sudden ripples would move through our tissues, shaking us at… ⊕
2026, 01:22 minutes, colour
tapecode 2185.02
DISCO LIVES FOREVER is a single channel video that cites disco demolition night of 1979 as a focus point on the ways in which disco and other forms of Black Queer music have been erased. The film contemplates how disco and other forms of Black Queer music have been manifested in spite of disco demolition night.
Don’t You Like the Green of A? is based on the correspondences between letters and colours specific to the American abstract painter Joan Mitchell’s synaesthesia—a condition that Henricks happens to share with her. Synaesthesia is a neurological syndrome in which perception by one sense automatically triggers… ⊕
Mars Brito, a trans bike courier, is killed by an SUV—is he the victim of an accidental "door prize" or is this murder? His case becomes a city-wide obsession, with hourly true crime updates and rewards for clues. While this murder mystery unfolds, a Toronto trans activist (also named Mars) works with his… ⊕
