re:assemblage collective

― DIFFUSION 3: Che Applewhaite presents: Interference, 83' ―

This program evidences essay filmmaking as a home for world-building relationships to personal and collective realities.

Interference concentrates on works that expand documentary art’s grammars by rescripting and gesturing beyond the vestiges of its enclosures: words, linear time, reason, the human, genocide, and unnecessary suffering to name a few.

AFTERMATH… filmed by Ceasar Williams, creator of YouTube channel Ballroom Throwbacks TV, inaugurates an interest shared by all artists in gestural repertoires within and beyond words, reason, and “the human”.

A New England Document makes the documentation of an Indigenous genocide unacceptable, after my own experience of academic study led me to reimagine the architectures of its source material: an ethnographic photography archive.

Renee Green’s ED/HF surfaces the ongoing becomings of both labouring in art and artworks themselves, connecting the viewer’s present with its portrayed creators’ influences and (after)lives. Described conceptually, her work tells time anew, populating our formal universe with unassumingly precise gestures of perspective and place-making.

The indivisible nature of individuals continues in I AM THE WORLD, which I made to understand how Ballroom Throwbacks TV’s cameraperson and protagonists depict each other outside of gender and race’s violent straight lines.

Jordan Lord’s After...After... (Access) recursively refracts the political and economic impacts on their life abilities of a surgery that threatened them with death. It reframes what constitutes the main ability with which this program concerns itself: the making of art within and of life.

The program closes in the black that predominates let me breathe, which I made to honour how its protogranists’ spiritual activism sustains the lives of the children in their care, after their own had been stolen by the police.

The formal strategies in these works are material conversations between layered structures of feeling across time. I am enlivened by these citations, where linearity is lost and lineages are honoured to remix and revalue sites of being.

Interference is dedicated to the movements of my families in and out of Canada; my grandfather’s time studying in early sixties Ottawa
and my cousins’ present passage t/here. -C.A.

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Outdoor Screening
Friday 09 August 2024 · 9:00pm screening
401 Richmond Courtyard · 401 Richmond Street W., Tkaronto

Entrance by donation at the door

Wheelchair accessible venue

AFTERMATH @ FEMININE DESTRUCTION FIRST FRIDAY 6/6/14 PART 4 ·
Ballroom Throwbacks TV A New England Document ·
Che Applewhaite ED/HF · Renée Green I AM THE WORLD · Che Applewhaite After...After... (Access) · Jordan Lord let me breathe · Che Applewhaite

After...After... (Access)

Directed by Jordan Lord
USA · 2016 · 18'00

An essay film that confronts questions of accessibility through an attempt to record my open-heart surgery. The film follows me, as I prepare for the surgery: watching medical imaging of my body with friends, revisiting a former lover, preparing for my mom to come to New York, documenting my family's arrival, and ultimately being admitted to the hospital. Alongside this footage, the film's narration considers the relationship between showing and telling; various dimensions of access; and how access is frequently considered only after the threat of liability, in the context of both filmmaking and disability. The film prioritizes access as a precondition of the film itself; audio description and open captioning are inseparable aspects of the film.

Jordan Lord is a teacher, artist, filmmaker, and writer, whose work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts, framing and support, access and documentary. [↗]