re:assemblage collective

― DIFFUSION 5: Lovely Butterfly, 57' ―

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Outdoor Screening
Saturday 08 August 2026 · 9:00pm screening
401 Richmond Courtyard; 401 Richmond Street W., Tkaronto

Entrance by donation at the door

Wheelchair accessible venue

The six films in Lovely Butterfly offer home movie-style excavations of political and personal realities, holding up a mirror to the ongoing traumas of imperialism, colonialism, and fundamentalism. They are windows into experiences of loss from Hindutva nationalism and its impacts on apathy and subjugation; to ongoing “Israeli” apartheid, and settler and psychological violence; to the problematics of intergovernmental organizations selling out Black nations to their colonizers. Lovely Butterfly is a collection of rally cries, reflections, and collective conjurings of solidarity capturing time in memorial.

Flowers for an Old Shrine · Long Pham Era of Serfdom · Dimple Mishra, Praagya Arya فراشة لطيفة (Lovely Butterfly) · Fairouz Hasan Aggregate II · Timothy Yanick Hunter (for once I dreamed of you) · Kate Solar Tank · Larissa Sansour

Aggregate II

Directed by Timothy Yanick Hunter
Canada · 2026 · 6'00 · HD Video

Aggregate II is an essayistic probing of intergovernmental agencies and their collusion with colonialism parallel with environmental degradation and its impact on Black and Caribbean peoples. An unnamed speaker criticizes CARICOM, the Caribbean Community Alliance, while speaking of true unity and collective action across nations of the Caribbean.

Timothy Yanick Hunter (b. 1990 Toronto, Ontario, Canada) uses self-led research and methodologies of recording and sampling to explore the experiential and aesthetic dimensions of the Black diaspora. References culled from a range of sources suggest shifting proximities, novel interactions between material and provenance. Historical photographs from museum archives meet ephemera from obscure corners of the Internet, overlaid with shards of music and spoken recordings. The resulting works are living mélanges, invested in alternative modes of making and thinking about memory, temporality, and the unknowable facets of existence. [↗]