Filmmakers make the light. There is always poetry in images and images in poetry: imagination, desire, steadfastness, and liberation are entangled into material manifestations of scenes, vignettes, soundscapes, lightscapes, stillness, and rhythm. The films and videos in dreamworlds are thought of as material possibilities in which worlds appear that are made up of dreams; worlds dreamt in daylight, in rumination; worlds that follow an intuition through movement, dance, and protest. Dreaming is the condition whereby forms emerge as relation, as our love for the land, and as liberation: in unexpected cuts, speeds, scratches, interruptions, fragments, blurs, a green ray. There’s an intimacy here that corresponds to the image’s vibrancy, dynamism, and beat. Images are light.
A conversation between Nasrin Himada and Wanda Nanibush will follow the screening.
Kamal Aljafari is a Palestinian filmmaker. He attended the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and now lives in Berlin, Germany. His most recent work, Paradiso, XXXI, 108, premiered at Corti d’Autore in the Locarno Film Festival 2022. He just completed A Fidai Film and is preparing a fiction film to be shot in Jaffa.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme work together across a range of sound, image, text, installation and performance practices. Their practice is engaged in the intersections between performativity, political imaginaries, the body and virtuality.
NIC Kay is a dancer, performer, conceptual choreographer, and all-around artist. Using creative movement, performing arts history, and performance art theory, they explore the themes of relationality and yearning in their work.
Rhayne Vermette is an artist and filmmaker born in Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Manitoba. Her filmmaking practice has been described as opulent collages of fiction, animation, documentary, re-enactments, and divine interruption. She lives in Winnipeg.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme work together across a range of sound, image, text, installation and performance practices. Their practice is engaged in the intersections between performativity, political imaginaries, the body and virtuality.
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga) b. Ferndale, Washington, is currently based in Vancouver, BC, and Milwaukee, WI. He studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His work centres around personal positions of Indigenous landscape, language as containers of culture, and the play between the known and the unknowable.
