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

Flowers for an Old Shrine (Đoá Hoa Cho Bàn Thờ Cũ)

Directed by Long Pham
USA/Vietnam · 2025 · 5'00 · 16mm to HD Video

Light cracks and chemical abrasions on a celluloid wandering. Each immutable essence disintegrates with every frame, slowly waning into no-selfhood. The old man and the old woman wilt in the candlelight.

Long Pham is an artist and experimental filmmaker originally from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, currently based in Syracuse, New York. After relocating to the United States, they studied cinema at Binghamton University, where they developed a practice in experimental video and filmmaking. Their work is deeply guided by the confluences of micro- and macrospaces with colonial histories, the transfiguration of form, and the phenomenology of the screen.

Long's films have been screened and awarded at many festivals, including the Cindependent Film Festival, Prismatic Ground, CineSalon Experimental Film Festival, and Celluloid Now.