re:assemblage collective

― DIFFUSION 4: Cats in the Cracks, 48' ―

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Indoor Screening
Saturday 09 August 2025 · 3:00pm screening
CineCycle; 129 Spadina Avenue, Tkaronto

Entrance by donation at the door

Wheelchair accessible venue

Step into a world where plants push through city cracks, history comes alive through stories and stone, and childhood dreams sparkle on the beach. This program brings together short films about nature’s resilience, childhood wonder, moving animals, and the many ways people and places connect across time and space. These stories help us ask big questions about history, nature, and how people connect to the places they live.

This is a kids program.

I'm Not You Will - Los Jaguares de la Bahía · Elena Duque A Beaten Path · Toby Gillies and Natalie Baird Canada in the 12th Century · Jack Parker Six · Kelly O’Brien Animal Movie · Grant Munro & Ron Tunis Walk-in-the-forest · Diane Obomsawin Linea ver (Spring Line) · Francisca Duran Tropical Cats · Astria Suparak August Song · Jodie Mack and Emily Kuehn

I'm Not You Will - Los Jaguares de la Bahía

Directed by Elena Duque
Spain · 2017 · 3'00

Music video for the song "I'm Not You Will" by Cadiz Bay's band Los Jaguares de la Bahía. -ED

Spanish-Venezuelan Elena Duque is a filmmaker, programmer, writer and teacher. As a filmmaker, her work moves between animation and collage, incorporating analog formats and working methods to review themes such as identity and the sense of belonging through plastic exercises around places, objects and textures. To date, he has made several experimental and animated pieces, which have been shown at festivals such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Mar del Plata, Punto de Vista in Pamplona, London Animation Film Festival, Les Inattendus (Lyon), Documenta Madrid, Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, USA), Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, ExFF in Frankfurt, Animasivo (Mexico), Cinespaña Toulouse and L'Alternativa, among others, as well as in institutions such as Kino Arsenal (Berlin) and the CCCB (Barcelona). Several monographic sessions have been dedicated to his work in places such as the Valdivia Festival (Chile), Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, USA, Doc's Kingdom (Portugal), MUTA (Peru) and the Filmoteca de Catalunya, among others. He has received a Special Mention at the Gijón Film Festival 2020 and the Best National Film Award at CaracasDoc 2021.

Her work is part of the catalogs of Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris), Hamaca, and Archivo Xcèntric at the CCCB in Barcelona. She has been a Visual Arts resident at the Matadero Art Residency Center in 2023. She also develops commissioned pieces such as headers for festivals and video clips. She is also programmer and head of the publications department of (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico in A Coruña, has been associate programmer at the Seville European Film Festival, is a professor at the Camilo José Cela University in Madrid and teaches workshops in different institutions and masters. She is editor of the books Val del Omar. Más allá de la órbita terrestre (published by Bafici) and 8 super 8 (published by (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico) and author of Secret Passages. Notes on Experimental Animation (Breus collection of the CCCB) [↗]