re:assemblage collective

― DIFFUSION 5: PSYCHIC SHAPES, LINGERING MARKS, 67' ―

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Indoor Screening
August 19th · 6:00pm screening
YYZ ARTISTS' OUTLET · 140-401 Richmond Street W., Tkaronto

Entrance by donation at the door

Wheelchair accessible venue

A collective teardrop, a dislocated eyeball, traces of sentience in objects near and far. The five films in this program plumb the materiality and architecture of memory and imagination, and inquire beyond a human scale of time.

Language Unknown · Janelle VanderKelen Corrientes Mercuriales (Mercurial Currents) · Carolina Fusilier with a salt water pool · Yuula Benivolski La Plage aux Êtres (The Beach of Beings) · Kendra McLaughlin Recortes · Kimberly Forero-Arnias

La Plage aux Êtres(The Beach of Beings)

Directed by Kendra McLaughlin
Canada/France · 2021 · 20'00

La Plage aux Êtres is a meditation on the shared fragility of organic and digital material. In the dark, a team of paleontologists digitizes the traces of a creature that they hope to identify. Among them, a researcher mourns a loved one touched by disease. Cloaked in an atmosphere of uncertainty and inquiry, the film parallels the analysis of these two bodies: one from 150 million years ago, the other from the generation just before.

Kendra McLaughlin is a Canadian filmmaker currently pursuing a PhD in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. She was previously a resident at Le Fresnoy, France’s National Contemporary Arts Studio, a participant in Bruno Latour's School of Political Arts (SPEAP), and a Clifford Tower fellow at Sciences Po where she received a master’s in Human Rights.