re:assemblage collective

― DIFFUSION 1: Off the Record, 54' ―

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Outdoor Screening
Thursday 07 August 2025 · 9:00pm screening
401 Richmond Courtyard; 401 Richmond Street W., Tkaronto

Entrance by donation at the door

Wheelchair accessible venue

“Thank you for your solidarity.” An Indonesian garment worker directly addresses the cinema audience, at once performing the homogenizing syntax of English while casting it into meaninglessness. This program opens DIFFUSION with a series of works that trouble the notion of bearing witness. Moving across forms of testimony––archival, performance, interview––the cinema is reconfigured here as a space for anger, protest, and close listening. As the agency of using one’s own words to address structures of power is repeatedly thrown into question, the program ends beyond language and voice – in an optical trance, with a single eye staring back at us.

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The World Doesn't End When You Do

Directed by marlow magdalene
USA · 2024 · 10'00

California continues to destroy and rebuild itself. This collage film takes a surgical approach to carving through 60 years of California’s historical violence. It comprises footage of the L.A. riots, slaughterhouses, wildfires, mid-century Malibu and 90s’ newsreels to unveil a cataclysmic future predicated on cycles of rebirth in the West. -mm

marlow magdalene, b. 1994 Los Angeles, is an experimental visual artist working in moving image, performance, and sculpture., Through time-based media, he materializes theory by Black radical thinkers into montage films that explore the transgressive space of collective memory, Black social death, and trans abjection. His cinematic universe comprises muddy textures, harsh cuts, and distorted sounds into montage films that collapse time and critique American history., He’s currently pursuing his MFA in moving image at Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. [↗]