April 18 & 19: Co-Presentations with Images Festival

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Only That Which Lingers
Curat­ed by Jaclyn Quaresma
Tues­day, April 18th at 12:00 PM

This lunchtime pro­gram includes the fol­low­ing films:

First Months of Free­dom, Kriss Li |CANADA | 2021 | DIGITAL | 9 MIN | ENGLISH WITH SUBTITLES

Cat, a trans­gen­der woman in Ten­nessee, has been insti­tu­tion­al­ized since she was four years old but got off parole in 2020. The piece was com­posed from phone videos, Skype calls, archival mate­r­i­al, and footage that a friend shot a few years before.

Ren­con­tre avec Robert Dole, François Har­vey | CANADA | 2021 | DIGITAL | 16 MIN | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

This exper­i­men­tal short film gives the floor to Robert Dole, who shares his sto­ry and expos­es his vision of schiz­o­phre­nia. The theme of men­tal ill­ness echoes in a cin­e­mato­graph­ic treat­ment that explores the mate­ri­al­i­ty of film and mag­net­ic tapes to find points of meet­ing and detach­ment, spaces res­onat­ing with the fall and redemp­tion of Robert Dole.

Cidade Ecléti­ca (Eclec­tic City), Luísa Cruz | BRAZIL/CANADA | 2019 | DIGITAL | 17 MIN | PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

When I first stum­bled upon the Uni­ver­sal Spir­i­tu­al Eclec­tic Fra­ter­ni­ty, a reli­gious com­mu­ni­ty in San­to Antônio do Descober­to, Brazil, I was struck by its his­to­ry and pho­to­gene­ity. Rodri­go, a young mem­ber of the Fra­ter­ni­ty, guides me through its pink and white streets, its tem­ples, its homes, his friends, his fam­i­ly. What does it mean to belong to Eclec­tic City?The screen­ing will be avail­able on imagesfestival.com at the sched­uled the date and time. A link will also be shared with reg­is­tered par­tic­i­pants via email before the event.
 

 

The Ghost in the Machine 
Curat­ed by Jaclyn Quaresma
April 18, 16:00 pm
Con­tent Warn­ing: Sug­ges­tion of sex­u­al vio­lence and men­tion of death by suicide

This lunchtime pro­gram includes the fol­low­ing films:

Alexa Echoes, Aman­da Turn­er Pohan | CANADIAN PREMIERE | USA | 2021 | DIGITAL VIDEO | 31 MIN | ENGLISH

Alexa Echoes recasts the rela­tion­ship between cul­tur­al move­ments and com­mer­cial tech­nolo­gies through the his­to­ry of women’s devo­cal­iza­tion and dis­em­bod­i­ment. It begins with myth­i­cal Greek fig­ures, such as Echo, and leads up to Amazon’s smart speak­er and dig­i­tal voice-based assis­tant Alexa.

WENN DIE WELT ZU ENDE GEHT, WERDE ICH DICH GE- LIEBT HABEN / When the World Comes to an End, I Will Have Loved You, Glo­ria Gam­mer | CANADIAN PREMIERE | AUSTRIA | 2022 | DIGITAL VIDEO | 15 MIN | ENGLISH WITH SUBTITLES

Fol­low­ing a cli­mate cat­a­stro­phe, Andy uploads them­self into the dig­i­tal after­world. Even though they have a hard time adapt­ing to the dig­i­tal world, the omnipresent super-intel­li­gence insists that par­adise is right here. The film was main­ly shot in the meta­verse Sec­ond Life.

Cosas que nun­ca van a morir (Things That Won’t Die), Manuela Gutiér­rez Arri­eta | CANADIAN PREMIERE | SPAIN | 2022 | DIGITAL VIDEO | 14 MIN | SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

After find­ing videos she uploaded to YouTube when she was a child, Manuela attempts to fol­low the trail she her­self left on the inter­net. Along the way, she comes across things that even she did not remem­ber about her­self. This is a film about child­hood, con­sent, and the way we look at ourselves.

The End­less, Yvette Grana­ta | CANADIAN PREMIERE | USA | 2022 | DIGITAL VIDEO | 11 MIN | NO DIALOGUE

The End­less is a spec­u­la­tive sen­so­ry ethnog­ra­phy film gen­er­at­ed from AI mod­els in the act of inter­pret­ing humans and vice ver­sa. Alien land­scapes and 3D mod­els are con- struct­ed through the eyes of a machine roam­ing through an unknown human-machine culture.

Afro Algo­rithms, Ana­to­la Ara­ba | CANADIAN PREMIERE | USA | 2022 | DIGITAL VIDEO | 14 MIN | ENGLISH

This 3D-ani­mat­ed short film in the Afro­fu­tur­ist genre explores the top­ics of AI and bias. In a dis­tant future, a bot named Aero is inau­gu­rat­ed as the world’s first AI ruler. But Aero soon learns that impor­tant world­views are miss­ing from her data­bank, includ­ing the expe­ri­ences of the his­tor­i­cal­ly mar­gin­al­ized and oppressed.

Echoes in My Mouth, Orit Ben Shitrit | NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE | USA | 2022 | DIGITAL VIDEO | 7 MIN | ENGLISH WITH SUBTITLES

When arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence arrives at machine con­scious- ness, and human mem­o­ries and trau­mas can be rewrit­ten or removed, four humans strug­gle to reach a mem­o­ry bank in a remote cave. They fol­low an enchant­i­ng siren as they trav­el into a mys­te­ri­ous world.

HYSTERESIS, Robert Sei­del | CANADIAN PREMIERE | GERMANY | 2021 | DIGITAL VIDEO | 5 MIN | NO DIALOGUE

HYSTERESIS inti­mate­ly weaves a trans­for­ma­tive fab­ric between Robert Seidel’s pro­jec­tions of abstract draw­ings and queer per­former Tsuki’s vig­or­ous chore­og­ra­phy. Using machine learn­ing to medi­ate these lagged re-pre­sen­ta­tions, the film inten­tion­al­ly cor­rupts the AI’s strate­gies to unveil a fre­net­ic, del­i­cate, flam­boy­ant visu­al lan­guage of hys­te­ria and hys­tere­sis in this his­tor­i­cal moment.

The screen­ing will be avail­able on imagesfestival.com at the sched­uled the date and time . A link will also be shared with reg­is­tered par­tic­i­pants via email before the event.

 

Image descrip­tions: Cidade Ecléti­ca (Eclec­tic City), Luísa Cruz (2019). Video still. AND Acti­vate NDN Con­scious­ness, Natal­ie King (2019). Video Still.