AD HOC #74: Decadancx. 1, of 3, with Jorge Lozano in person!
Innis College, room 222
2 Sussex Avenue
April 17, 2025, 8PM
Free admission, open to the public!
Decadancx. 1,of 3 explores the interplay between memory and visual
media through the use of found footage alongside films and videos from
personal archives. By allowing the footage to serve as a catalyst for
memories that may not be directly connected to the images themselves,
the work delves into the fragmented and subjective nature of building
histories. This experimental process retraces steps not to reconstruct
a narrative but to uncover unanticipated outcomes, inviting a dialogue
between the known and the unknown, the remembered and the
non-imagined.
Jorge Lozano is an immigrant artist and filmmaker born in Colombia. He
has been painting and filming, and making video, sound, performance
and installation works since he came to Canada in 1971. He has made
over 150 movies — works that live not in-between, but within cultures.
His work is a reflection of his personal commitment to epistemological
disobedience and the investigation of different ways of thinking,
feeling and doing. Jorge’s fiction shorts have been screened at TIFF
and Sundance, and internationally at many festivals, museums and
galleries. He initiated the Crossing Borders Film Festival, the
aluCine Toronto Latin Media Festival and converSalon in collaboration
with Alexandra Gelis. Jorge is currently working on several
feature-length deliriums, architectural installations and film fetish
short forms in Toronto, Ontario, where he lives.
Programme:
Decadancx. 1,of 3 (2024, 60 mins.)
TRT: 60 minutes
AD HOC aims to rethink what an experience of cinema can be. We seek to
reposition historical landmarks and buried treasures within the
on-going tradition of experimental and other non- commercial modes of
filmmaking, drawing on work from Toronto, throughout Canada, and
internationally. Within these parameters, we aspire to diversity in
programming, as well as to multimedia and interdisciplinary screening
events that bring together varied communities.
AD HOC = Stephen Broomer, Madi Piller, Jim Shedden, Bart Testa.
AD HOC would like to thank Alberto Zambenedetti, Denise Ing, Charlie
Keil, Eyan Logan, Rob Trevisan, Thom Chan, Jarret Sorger, and the
staff of Innis College and the Cinema Studies Institute.