re:assemblage collective

― DIFFUSION 7: Acts of Recovery, 74' ―

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Indoor Screening
Sunday 10 August 2025 · 6:00pm screening
CineCycle; 129 Spadina Avenue, Tkaronto

Entrance by donation at the door

Wheelchair accessible venue

How do we unearth histories, whether familial, cultural, geopolitical? The five films in Acts of Recovery offer generous observational insights through personal stories that excavate family archives around migration; extract knowledge from local plants with a Oaxaca women’s collective; follow a Palestinian glass blower turning sand into beautiful objects; navigate daily life as artists in Gaza while subjected to genocide; and the destruction of the Indus Delta in Pakistan and how those on the river are saving sacred shrines.

Echolocation · Nadia Shihab Por Dentro Somos Color (Inside We Are Colour) · Elena Pardo You May Laugh at Me a Little (تضحك عليّ شوي) · Yuula Benivolski [Inaudible] · Ash Moniz Four Acts of Recovery · Shahana Rajani

Four Acts of Recovery

Directed by Shahana Rajani
Pakistan/Canada/Spain · 2025 · 17'00

Four Acts of Recovery follows a fisher family from the Indus Delta as they turn to practices of drawing and painting to navigate unprecedented infrastructural violence and climate collapse. Displaced from their ancestral creek of Mul to the city of Karachi, this family searches for old and new ways of maintaining sacred relations with their shrines and disappearing homelands. Drawing becomes a sacred ritual that makes space for the vastness and abundance of sacred and ecological worlds amidst annihilation. -SR

Shahana Rajani is an artist exploring the visualities, landscapes and infrastructures of development, militarisation and ecological resistance in Pakistan. Collaboration, research and pedagogy are central to her practice. Working across moving image, installation and printed matter, she engages with dissident histories, lineages and practices of representation and relation. She is a co-founder of Karachi LaJamia (with Zahra Malkani) which is an experimental project devoted to seeking and sharing ecstatic ecopedagogies that emerge from struggles around land and water in the city. [↗]