re:assemblage collective

― DIFFUSION 7: Recypher, 73' ―

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Outdoor Screening
Sunday 09 August 2026 · 9:00pm screening
401 Richmond Courtyard; 401 Richmond Street W., Tkaronto

Entrance by donation at the door

Wheelchair accessible venue

DIFFUSION’s closing program tunnels into images themselves, permeating their surfaces and fraying their pixelated edges. Out of a deceptively simple question about belonging flows a layered and subtle resilience. Urban alienation, white supremacy and settler colonialism are confronted here, obliquely, in the form of a sly riddle where images and bodies come together in force. Belonging to the mountains and streams; to the harnessed technological discovery of the protest record, the sample, the remix; dancing in a circle of collective grief; a slingshot landing a stone right in the eye of the settler; a song of Africa; a code breathed aloud, Recypher is about home and the forces that conspire to turn it to a blur or a memory. These five works step into that blur and reclaim its power.

b.longing · mystery byrd Stereograph · Timothy Yanick Hunter demarcations; you have black eyes · Zelikha Zohra Shoja Momentum · Nada El-Omari maono mzimi/unbroken spaces of vision · Sonya Mwambu

Momentum

Directed by Nada El-Omari
Canada/Palestine · 2025 · 19'00 · HD Video

Momentum is the product of an object's mass and velocity. It is the strength or force gained through motion or a series of events. Twenty years after it was recorded, the course of a day resurfaces. As images are reassembled, people, places, and voices shift and cross the camera's eye. Momentum is a reflection on memory, place, and the quiet, persevering strength of images to bear witness.

Nada El-Omari is a filmmaker and writer of Palestinian and Egyptian origin, based in Montreal. Through a hybrid practice combining film, installation, writing, and sound design, she explores themes of memory, migration, displacement, and diasporic identity. By focusing on process and fragments in text, sound, and image, Nada explores new ways to self-narrate, and speak hybridity and self. Her work, often constructed from intimate fragments: family archives, recorded voices, everyday objects, questions notions of belonging and intergenerational transmission. Nada El-Omari favours a poetic and non-linear narration that brings out the traces and silences of stories that are often invisible or erased. Her films have been shown at several festivals, on Shasha and Tenk, and in various galleries. Her work has also been published in Montreal Serai, qumra journal, on Pavillons and in Tantôt magazine. Her last digital project was commissioned by the Art Gallery of Ontario in collaboration with Sonya Mwambu and shown as a digital installation in gallery, made with the help od InterAccess’s immersive projection environment as a two-player or one-player interactive experience. El-Omari holds a BFA in Film Production and an MFA in Film from York University. [↗]