re:assemblage collective

― DIFFUSION 2: Like Grieving an Egg, 70' ―

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Indoor Screening
Friday 09 August 2024 · 6:00pm screening
Bachir / Yerex Screening Room · 452-401 Richmond Street W., Tkaronto

Entrance by donation at the door

Wheelchair accessible venue

“There was a profound sadness that felt so familiar, like grieving an egg that was cracked abruptly open, lost.” -T.W.Y

The four films in this program posit personal reflections of grief, taking us from inner visions to outer worlds of our ultimately ephemeral existences.

eggshells · Teo Wey Yinn What Humans See as Blood, Jaguars See as Chicha ·
Luciana Decker Orozco How to Run a Trotline · Carl Elsaesser Flash, Track · Yuqian Li

eggshells

Directed by Teo Wey Yinn
Malaysia · 2023 · 8'00

A diary from the window, told by the trees.

eggshells is an audiovisual diary pieced by phone videos taken out of my obsession with the window view in my newly rented apartment, woven together with analog photos documenting the moments of my parents moving out of our old rented house after I left home. The work mirrors the ruins of nature and the ruins of my family home, exploring the duality and coexistence of living and decay.

Wey Yinn Teo is a Kuala Lumpur based non-binary film worker whose career revolves around filmmaking, and is an alumni of Berlinale Talents and the Kyoto Filmmaker's Lab in 2022. Her debut short film ‘Enflightenment’ (2023) won the audience award at the Short Waves Festival in Poznan, Poland; and screened at Beijing International Short Film Festival, XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin, and Leiden Shorts in the Netherlands.

Her works of sound, music and moving image often drift away from realms of reality and truth, where she explores the idea of liminality and the spectrum of the human experience. Yinn is deeply passionate in translating the synthesis of art, music, stories and fantasy into a symphonic sky of stars on a cloudless dark night - an encompassing space that is sincere, complex, and has power to touch and heal. [↗]