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

To Summon a Seer (Llamada vidente)

Directed by Alan Fernando Medina
USA · 2026 · 8'00 · 16mm to HD Video

Apertured voyages, orbs of light and memories of migration summon a clairvoyant into the big city, distorting a sense of place through blurred and distant recollection.

Alan Fernando Medina (1992, Mexico) is a filmmaker, artist, and programmer based in Chicago primarily working in 16mm film. His work favors poetic and fragmented modes of storytelling, exploring how place, language, and memory shape the inner and outer geographies of portraiture and landscape. Through fluid structures, his work approaches nonfiction filmmaking with an experimental lens that sometimes drifts, blurs, double imposes, but always remembers.

His films work and films have screened and shown at festivals and galleries including FICUNAM (Competencia Umbrales de Vanguardias Cinematográficas), ICDOCS, Mimesis Documentary Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (MUFF), ITHEX, The Lynden Sculpture Garden, and UIC Gallery 400.