re:assemblage collective

― DIFFUSION 1: Three Turns, 67' ―

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Indoor Screening
Thursday 08 August 2024 · 9:00pm screening
401 Richmond Courtyard · 401 Richmond Street W., Tkaronto

Entrance by donation at the door

Wheelchair accessible venue

Moving through familial histories and domestic spaces both intimate and fleeting. The five films in our first program touch upon acts of witnessing, whether loss of domestic space, the death of a relative, the impact of natural disasters, or the revisiting of one’s homeland. Each frame is a window into the past, present and future.

Holographic Will · Mike Stoltz A Hail Mary · Faisal Karadsheh No Door, One Window, Only Light · Chris Zhongtian Yuan I Am Also Part of the Three Turns · Monica Maria Moraru avant seriana (before seriana) · Samy Benammar

I Am Also Part of the Three Turns

Directed by Monica Maria Moraru
Romania/Canada · 2024 · 15'00

Relying on oral and fragmentary histories, I Am Also Part of the Three Turns traces the effects of a destructive earthquake in Bucharest and a concurrent flood it caused in a small town in Buzau. In the capital, the destruction was seized as an opportunity by the authoritarian government to further raze large swaths of the city, invoking the earthquake as a mythological force in order to strategically replace rubble with new Soviet-bloc housing projects. Employing allegory as narrator, the film sketches a series of political congruences throughout a patchwork of intertwined landscapes, teasing out a temporally irresolute past that defies the linear cause-and-effect of both environmental disaster and authoritarian political repression.

Monica Maria Moraru (Romania/Canada) is a visual artist whose work seeks within the characteristics of material practice a cinematic expressionism. Her projects often culminate in sculpture, moving-image, installation and sound. Across mediums, her work searches for sensorial and political resonances within a patchwork of temporal and relational histories.