It Matters What [9:06 | 16mm and HD | Canada | 2019]
Absences and translations motivate this experimental animation in an exploration of the methods and materials of reproduction and inscription. The inquiry is set within a framework of practical and critical human relationships with other-than-human-species elucidated by the theorist Donna Haraway.
A fragment from Haraway’s essay Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene is reworked here as a poetic manifesto. Enigmatic found-footage calls into question human violence over animal species. Plant life is both the subject matter of the images and assists the means of photographic reproduction.
The techniques used include in-camera animation, contact-prints and phytograms created by the exposure of 16mm film overlaid with plant material and dried for hours in direct sunlight.
Awards:
•Local Heroes Award at Alucine, Latin Film and Media Arts Festival, Toronto, Canada
Screenings:
2023 •Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Crossroads Festival 14th Retrospective, San Francisco, US •Close Up Cinema, in conversation with In Vivo by Karel Doing, London, UK •Toronto Metropolitan University, In: Memory in Motion, Toronto
2022
•Independent Imaging Retreat, Mount Forest, Canada
•University of Applied Arts, Vienna in: Lectures for Future, Vienna, Austria
2021
•Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, In: Fascinations: Roots, Ji.hlava, Czech Republic •Dobra Festival, in: Rituals of Reclamation, Brazil
•Vector Festival, in: Of Ties and Tethers, Toronto, Ontario
•PIX Gallery and online, in: View/Regard, Toronto, Ontario
•CFMDC, in: Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices: Spotlight on Film Farm, Toronto, Ontario 2020
•San Francisco Cinematheque, in: I am Bloodless/I am the Cosmos Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco, California •Art Gallery of Hamilton, in: Programme 3, Photophobia Contemporary Moving Image Festival, Hamilton, Ontario •Vancouver International Latin American Film Festival, in: Latinx Diversidad Programme, Vancouver, BC •Toronto Society of Architects (TSA), in: TSA September Short Films Playlist, •Cinematheque Quebec, in: Cineastes Independents, live screening, Montreal •Experiments in Cinema, online in Experiments 3, Albuquerque, New Mexico •Analogica, in: Analogica Program 2, screened online,
•Cosmic Rays Festival, Durham, North Carolina
•Film for Artists: Site and Cycle 2020 at Anima Casa Rural, Jalisco, Mexico
•RPM—Rotations Per Minute Festival, in: Sights, Symbols and Signs, Boston, US
2019
•Analogica, in: Analogica Program 2, Bolzano Italy
•Klex Film Fest, in: Unless You are Living It: Dis/Integration, programmed by re:assemblage, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia •La Cinematografica, Vigo, Spain
•Experimental Film Society, Queen Mary University of London, London UK
•Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film, Bilbao, Spain
•Planet in Focus Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario
•Antimatter, in: The Shouting Flower, Victoria, Canada
•WNDX, in: Animals Future Past, Winnipeg, Canada
•Alucine, Latin Film and Media Arts Festival, Toronto, Canada
•Vastlab Experimental Film Festival. Vastlab Gallery, Los Angeles Califonia
•Arkipel Jakarta International Documentary + Experimental Film Festival, in: Unless You are Living It: Dis/Integration, programmed by re:assemblage, Jakarta, Indonesia
•Oberhausen Film Festival, in: Distributors’ Screening, Oberhausen, Germany
2018
•Gallery 44 Member’s Production Gallery, Group show About Veracity