re:assemblage collective

― DIFFUSION 1: Mouth to Memory, 67' ―

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Outdoor Screening
Thursday 06 August 2026 · 9:00pm screening
401 Richmond Courtyard; 401 Richmond Street W., Tkaronto

Entrance by donation at the door

Wheelchair accessible venue

Speaking begins and ends in the body. A mouth opens, words form, images flicker, memories surface. Mouth to Memory brings together films that trace the movement between speech and remembrance, where testimony is carried through language, gesture, ghostly rituals, archives, and the moving image itself. Across these works, personal and collective histories unfold against the backdrop of a fictive curtain: a broken telephone that summons a seer, a love affair amidst a mass shooting, a mouth buried beneath a shower of noise.

Rather than offering definitive accounts, these films dwell in the necessary fictions where memory fragments and returns. Migration becomes an act of clairvoyance, historical records splinter across official and lived accounts, desire survives through images of death, and mourning reshapes the domestic into a site of political memory. The films in this program consider remembering as an unfinished act, shaped as much by what can be spoken as by what remains beyond speaking.

To Summon a Seer · Alan Fernando Medina My Secret Boyfriend Died in a Mass Shooting · Kalil Haddad Nobody Ever Dies Here · Fachri Ghazali Mouth to Mouth · Theresa Hak Kyung Cha A Metamorphosis · Lin Htet Aung Earth Fell Flat · Erika Suderberg

Collection of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation. © Regents of the University of California. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

Mouth to Mouth

Directed by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
USA · 1975 · 8'00 · Video to HD Video