The works of Jarman Award–winning artist Maryam Tafakory are gripping meditations on resistance, erasure, and desire. Layering imagery from post-revolutionary Iranian cinema, archival documents, autobiographical fragments, and found sound, Tafakory excavates speculative histories of female intimacy and activism censored from official records. Her tactile assemblages—swaths of saturated color, half-hidden figures, and text—reflect on the limits […]
Artist Malena Szlam and filmmaker Jiayi Chen present a special evening of films and performances that use analog technologies to create intensely sensorial experiences—reorienting how we perceive landscape and time. Born in Santiago, Chile, and now based in Montreal, Szlam crafts striking visions of volcanic terrains—from the active peaks and high deserts of the Andes […]
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“A fever dream stitched together from hyperpop absurdism, DIY grit, and existential dread.”—Sam Gurry, LA Film Forum Feral youth, alienated animals, and masked authorities populate the jittery, acid-colored animations of Victoria Vincent, which map the psychic fallout of life shaped by platforms, protocols, and perpetual crisis. Known online as “vewn,” Vincent has released dozens of short […]
In the finely attuned 16mm films of Chicago-based filmmaker, photographer, and musician Kioto Aoki, everyday phenomena—sunlight pooling on a wooden floor, blades of grass shifting in a lawn—become the material for exquisite compositions of sensorial and perceptual play. Grounded in an improvisatory sensibility and the embodied physicality of analog filmmaking, Aoki often edits her works […]
Few figures have shaped the landscape of contemporary animation as profoundly as Estonian artist Priit Pärn. Since the late 1960s, his surreal narratives and expressive graphic style have influenced animators worldwide—from independent auteurs to Hollywood creatives. For the last 20 years, he has worked closely with Belarusian-born animator Olga Pärn, developing a collaborative practice that […]