re:assemblage collective

― DIFFUSION 1: Three Turns, 67' ―

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Outdoor Screening
Thursday 08 August 2024 · 9:00pm screening
401 Richmond Courtyard · 401 Richmond Street W., Tkaronto

Entrance by donation at the door

Wheelchair accessible venue

Looking into and away from familial histories and domestic spaces both familiar and fleeting. The five films in our first program touch upon the acts of witnessing, whether the loss of domestic space, the death of a relative,the impact of natural disasters, the revisiting of one’s familial homeland and the re-creation of vulnerabilities. Each frame is a window into the past, present and future.

Holographic Will · Mike Stoltz A Hail Mary · Faisal Karadsheh No Door, One Window, Only Light · Chris Zhongtian Yuan I Am Also Part of the Three Turns · Monica Maria Moraru avant seriana (before seriana) · Samy Benammar

A Hail Mary

Directed by Faisal Karadsheh
Jordan/Canada · 2023 · 10'00

A Hail Mary explores filmic and familial processing, centered on the Toronto Van Attack of April 23, 2018, one of Canada's deadliest mass murders. Karadsheh’s grandfather, who was only visiting his newly immigrated daughter, was among the victims who lost their lives. The film highlights the subsequent challenges of moving and mourning, depicted through a large-scale portrait of Karadsheh's mother and grandmother painted in 2018, which becomes the focal point of this short experimental documentary produced five years later.

Faisal Karadsheh is a Jordanian-Palestinian artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto. His artistic practice explores how a body adapts, reproduces and constructs itself. Through a process of collecting material remnants, such as waste, and preserving them via sound or 3D scanning, he ultimately works towards revealing the intricate relationship within the body and its environment, seeking to conceive them as one. Karadsheh's work spans across various media including painting, sound, video, installations and extended reality, with his most recent presentations at Trinity Square Video, Kingston School of Art and InterAccess. [↗]