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

Moving through familial histories and domestic spaces both intimate and fleeting. The five films in our first program touch upon acts of witnessing, whether loss of domestic space, the death of a relative, the impact of natural disasters, or the revisiting of one’s homeland. 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

Holographic Will

Directed by Mike Stoltz
USA · 2023 · 5'00

A domestic swirl filmed while the building was being sold. How much longer can we afford to stay? A kaleidoscopic portrait of destabilization during the struggle to stay in a rent-controlled apartment amidst an affordable housing crisis.

Mike Stoltz is a Los Angeles-based moving image artist whose practice is dictated by process, working directly with the tools of cinema (images, sound, and time) to reexamine the familiar, the communal, and the medium itself. Images reveal satellite dishes perched on the ocean, scrappy bands playing in storage units, stroboscopic office park architecture, bodies careening across the screen, and relics overcome by moss and mold. There is a correlation between the constant and the variable; a concrete wall begins to spin through the sky, performers place the camera between their bodies, nature overtakes the man-made, and history folds in on itself.

Stoltz's 16mm films and videos have screened internationally at venues such as Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Courtisane, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, REDCAT, International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. [↗]