re:assemblage collective

― DIFFUSION 6: Domestic Distances, 71' ―

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Indoor Screening
Sunday 09 August 2026 · 6:30pm screening
CineCycle; 129 Spadina Avenue, Tkaronto

Entrance by donation at the door

Wheelchair accessible venue

The films in this program examine how images, sounds, and personal media shape intimacy over time. Moving between home movies, found photographs, testimony, and daily acts of documenting, these works return to images that continue to accrue new meanings long after they were made. Rather than treating cameras and archives as passive tools of documentation, they ask how acts of recording create ways of relating to one another, to history, and ourselves.

A revolutionary history is pieced together from silence, testimony, and disappearance. Found photographs reveal the afterlives of political images as they fade and circulate over decades. A chosen name takes shape through self-made images and the care of a community. A child's camera gathers a long gone world of family connection, transforming everyday moments into an enduring gesture of attention.

Together, these films suggest that intimacy is not simply captured by images but produced through them. Looking becomes a form of care, recording becomes a way of staying together, and the moving image becomes a space in which relationships continue to unfold long after the camera stops rolling.

A Bundle of Silences · Sofía Gallisá Muriente Pinktoned · Mike Stoltz DEXTRA_1 · Alex Lo and Dextra Darling Baba Bahram, Look at the Flowers · Sahar Te

Baba Bahram, Look at the Flowers

Directed by Sahar Te
Canada/Iran · 2025 · 17'00 · SD Video to HD Video

Baba Bahram, Look at the Flowers is an experimental short composed from archival footage recorded in Tehran by the artist’s younger brother, Reza, at the age of seven. Holding the camera with playful authority, he roams through their family home, garden, and streets, capturing everyday moments with wonder and instinct. The footage is addressed directly to their grandfather, Baba Bahram, creating an improvised cinematic letter across generations.

Sahar Te is an Iranian-Canadian filmmaker, artist, and writer working across film, installation, and performance. With a background in literature, visual arts, and media (BFA, MA, PhD in progress), her work explores the relationship between people, land, and the spaces they shape and inhabit. Her films draw on poetic visual language and grounded observation to explore themes of environment, human presence, and connection to place.