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(Image credit: Vibrations from Gaza, by Rehab Nazzal, 2024)
Can you die of a broken heart? Kardia is the story of Hope (Mimi Kuzyk) a pathologist who embarks on an unusual journey of reconciliation. Her story begins in the brief instant that her heart stops. With a photograph as her only artifact she sets out to unravel the mystery that surrounds her early life. The film weaves… ⊕
Both fable and ode to plants, The Everlasting Pea is a short film that explores our human relationship with the botanic world.Journeying through ancient ruins, mysterious dreamscapes, and ethereal otherworldly plant images, the story moves between a scientist who anaesthetizes a pea plant, questioning plant awareness and our… ⊕
An homage to Chicago artist and toolmaker Dan Sandin’s 1973 video, Five-minute Romp through the IP, in which Sandin demos the Image Processor (IP), a modular analog video synthesizer he built the same year, and encouraged artists to copy in his Distribution Religion manifesto. In this video, artists James Connolly and… ⊕
2024, 133:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 1068.19
In 1972, visual artist/filmmaker Peter Dudar and dancer/choreographer Lily Engformed a multimedia partnership named MISSING ASSOCIATES.INVENT A NEW VOCABULARY. START FROM ZERO. OBSERVE ANDINCORPORATE INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT.MISSING ASSOCIATES [NOTES 1972]MISSING ASSOCIATES started the first wave of performance art and experimental… ⊕
MisTik follows Cree twins who carry the last of the healthy trees on their backs in hopes of saving the world they once knew.