re:assemblage collective

― DIFFUSION 1: Three Turns, 67' ―

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Outdoor 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

No Door, One Window, Only Light

Directed by Chris Zhongtian Yuan
China/UK · 2023 · 12'00

Following the recent death of L, an artist friend from home, who allegedly suffered from schizophrenia for more than 15 years, the artist talks to L through an imagined letter exchange, where they confront each other on notions of home, vulnerability, resistance, memory, and fraught relations. Centering on an architectural model of the artist’s childhood room, the film is entirely shot on super 8mm and accompanied by an immersive recording at the artist’s home, as well as original music from London-based experimental group Langham Research Centre. The film draws from archival footage from a journalistic report on May 1968, early artist filmmakers’ home videos, as well as makes references to late 1960s structural cinema that prioritises light and space, as an autonomous site for resistance.

Chris Zhongtian Yuan (b. 1988, China) is an artist and filmmaker based in London. Their works examine the ways in which spaces of absence and exile are politicised through sound and storytelling. Recent works have been shown at Macalline Art Center, Guangdong Times Museum, Reading International, Power Station of Art, Somerset House, Whitechapel Gallery among others.