re:assemblage collective

― DIFFUSION 1: I CREATED A MEMORY TORCH ―

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Outdoor Screening
August 17th · 8:30pm doors & food · 9:00pm screening
401 Richmond Courtyard · 401 Richmond Street W., Tkaronto

Entrance by donation at the door

Wheelchair accessible venue

Archives of daily life are simultaneously tangible and fleeting. The seven films in our opening program each unfold a memory palace of the familial, familiar and outré. Mysterious communications and missed opportunities. Objects found and objects fleeting. The unknown and the intimate meld through pasts, presents and futures. .

Parasite Family · Prapat Jiwarangsan Life Force · Cherry Nin Sight Leak · Peng Zuqiang Qualities of Life: Living in the Radiant Cold · James Richards Times a God Zillion · Natasha Beste Birds Don’t Look Through the Windows · Eirini Tampasouli Bóng Xà Bông (Soapy Faggy) · Nguyễn Anh Tú Phạm

Sight Leak

Directed by Zuqiang Peng
China · 2022 · 12'00

“The moon, the sometimes dark street, trees, it's warm […] at last, a certain eroticism possible (that of the warm night).” When Roland Barthes visited China in 1973, he jotted down some notes that would become part of his Travels in China (Carnets du voyage en Chine), an underplot of desire in his imagination of the country. Barthes did not publish these writings during his lifetime, and his unsettling judgments about China are refracted in Peng Zuqiang's work Sight Leak, as fragments of dialogues on class and looking, responding to the reflections on the same matters elicited alongside Barthes' sense of eroticism. The local tourist in the film travels through different spaces and gatherings, seemingly never looking at anyone, yet silently looking at someone, turning towards a certain collectivity in spite of a foreign homoerotic gaze

Peng Zuqiang works with film, video and installations. Recent exhibitions and screenings include EMAF, Alchemy, 25FPS, KasselerDok, Cell Project Space, E-Flux screening room, IDFA, Antimatter, and Open City Doc Festival. He is the recipient of the dialog prize at EMAF 2023, and a ‘Special Mention’ from Festival Film Dokumenter, Yogyakarta for his first feature film, Nan (2020). A resident artist at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, he lives and works in Amsterdam. https://www.pengzuqiang.com/