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8 p.m.
Inconsumable
Curated by Victoria Moufawad-Paul

A selection of videos that cannot be consumed through conventional modes of viewing. The works in Inconsumable resist normative relationships to bodies. Just as the image of desire is about to be revealed, the unveiling is disrupted or interrupted.

 

 

 

Hot Shot Gallery, Friday, October 8th

8 p.m.
Direct Address
Curated by Lina Rodriguez

An invitation to reflect on direct address and its aesthetic and ethical implications on our ways of seeing moving images. I will particularly focus on the face and on the moment when a face (inside the frame) meets another face (outside of the frame) directly, specifically in fiction films that purposely break the relationship of distance or perspective so arduously created by filmmakers.

 

 

Hot Shot Gallery, Friday, October 8th

9 p.m.
Dream Factory
Curated by Brad Deane

Providing a very brief overview of my history of fiction and non-fiction cinema, I will explore the relevance of these strategies in creating works today.

 

 

 

 

 

Hot Shot Gallery, Friday, October 8th

9 p.m.
Kalavera Deliciosa / exquisite corpse #7
By Makila.TV (Montreal)

Since August, Makila.tv has been working with youth media makers in three cities across two continents as part of the 7th edition of the Kalavera Deliciosa project. This ongoing experiment is inspired by the famous “exquisite corpse” game played by visual artists in the Surrealist movement.

In an exciting new collaboration, Kalavera Deliciosa #7 brings together diverse youth participants from the north and south in partnership with three local community partners: Communautique, a media literacy and civic engagement project in Montreal's Parc Extension; Toronto's E-fagia, a grassroots arts collective serving the Latino community, and Mejoda, a video collective from Cali, Colombia dedicated to alternative, community media. Through the project, the participants will have a chance to gain new skills, and to link up with their peers in a different part of the world.

Hot Shot Gallery, Friday, October 8th

Saturday, October 9th

6:30 p.m.
And Exercises in Faith, artist talk by Julieta Maria

8 p.m.
Made in Oaxaca / Hecho en Oaxaca
Curated by Guillermina Buzio

9 p.m.
Kino Pravda 3G an artists talk
With Public Studio collective: Elle Flanders, Eshrat Erfanian, Tamira Sawatzky, and Zev Farber

 

Hot Shot Gallery

6:30 p.m.
And Exercises in Faith
Artist talk by Julieta Maria

Indian anthropologist Veena Das suggested that pain is an expression which longs to find a home in the body of another. The videos I am presenting reflect on violence and oppression using the body as the point of departure. The videos reflect on fragility, beauty and violence, questioning the limits of our relationship to one another and to the world, exploring affective responses and indifference, and the humanity and inhumanity that lurks at the core of all of us.

Julieta Maria is a Colombian, Toronto based new media artist with an MFA in Visual Arts from York University. She works with video and interactive installations, using technology to provide the audience with an intimate space for reflection. Julieta's recent work has been centered on video documentation of staged actions, exploring the experience of violence as an intrusion in the everyday relationship between the subject and the world.

Hot Shot Gallery, Saturday, October 9th

8 p.m.
Made in Oaxaca / Hecho en Oaxaca
Curated by Guillermina Buzio

Made in Oaxaca provides an insight into contemporary artistic practice in Oaxaca, Mexico, a colorful, vibrant, and artistically active town where the political and economical tensions leave traces on its people. To create their pieces, the artists recycled photocopies, super 8 found footage, TV footage, VHS, and the problematic events surrounding the work of an artist to create their shorts. This program combines aesthetic approaches and political awareness.

 

 

Hot Shot Gallery, Saturday, October 9th

9 p.m.
Kino Pravda 3G
Artists talk with Public Studio collective: Elle Flanders, Eshrat Erfanian, Tamira Sawatzky, and Zev Farber

The revolution is being mobilized. From the most recent G20 protests, to the Green movement in Iran and the Red Shirts in Thailand, 3G follows the recent political movements around the globe. While mainstream media’s repetitive slick images of riots create grand narratives, mobile phones in the hands of the protestors, allow for the narration of their own stories.

Vertov’s Kino Pravda (literally “film truth),” based on the belief that truth lay beneath the surface of what is seen and that fragments of reality edited together would present a deeper truth, provide the groundwork for today's Youtube universe.  With simple, unadorned and functional images, Vertov’s transmitted his revolutionary world. In Kino Pravda 3G, Public Studio —a transient Toronto artist collective— assembles the detritus of mobile phone footage over the last year to illustrate the current state of affairs in protests from Tehran to Toronto.

Hot Shot Gallery, Saturday, October 9th