April 12, 9:30 am, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Delighted to be part of the Young Creators Co-Lab: Expanded Cinema panel moderated by Hannah Panov. I will be joining artist and Dandelion Collective member Derek Jenkins for the chat. Can’t wait!
Join us from 1pm-3pm for a drop-in workshop on film scratching, looping, and phytograms!
Linea ver premieres at Inflamavel! /
Linea ver premieres at Inflamavel Festival running April 9–12, 2025!
Linea ver (3:39, 2024)
Spring sculpts their fierce emergence. Aspen, cedar, red oak, lichen (and others) phytograms on super-8mm tri-x film.
The Botanical Turn, Saturday Nov. 2 at the Hamilton Playhouse /
The Botanical Turn November 2 at 7 pm
Playhouse Cinema, Hamilton 177 Sherman Ave. North Hamilton
FREE ADMISSION
Known for her innovative use of phytography and hand-processing film techniques, Francisca Duran’s art practice intersects with a deep commitment to teaching, mentorship and community-building. For this special screening, the Dandelion Film Collective invites Duran to present her film “compendium” in the cinema alongside a selection of experimental plant-based films that influenced her path towards the recent exhibition Research Garden and its offshoots.
Direct engagement with film material has been a constant of artist filmmaking throughout the last century, but a significant strain of recent work bears the unmistakable mark of plant life on modes of production. Tried-and-true methodologies, notably hand-processing and direct animation, have proven fertile ground for experiments with plant material. This vibrant program demonstrates the ways analog film has become a medium through which artists are engaging directly with the nonhuman and from which they are considering the political, economic, and ecological conditions of late capitalism and the Anthropocene.
Verdant and wild, The Botanical Turn is a celebration of the circle of filmmakers who have inspired Duran’s plant-based films, as well as those she continues to inspire.
Films by Cecilia Araneda, Yuula Benivolski, Cristal Buemi, Larissa Fan, Dawn George, Siyao Guo, Bea Haut, Derek Jenkins, Robin Riad. This screening also includes the communal film created by participants at the 2023 Phytogramming Workshop facilitated by Franci Duran.
Post-screening Q&A moderated by Derek Jenkins.
The Botanical Turn is part of the Light Study Series. This event is co-presented by Dandelion Film Collective and Factory Media Centre and generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Film Farm Salon! /
It was an honour to be a part of the inaugural Artist Salon at Film Farm (Independent Imaging Retreat) hosted by Phil Hoffman and Janine Marchessault.
It was a feast of ideas film, art, conversation, community and nature food featuring work by Karel Doing, JP Marchant, Sonya Mwambu and Phil Hoffman.
Sept 6: Screening and Phytogram Workshop at MONO NO AWARE, Brooklyn! /
Still from Cuentos de mi niñez (1991)
Excited to show a programme of films at MONO NO AWARE in Brooklyn NY!
The Films of Franci Duran Friday September 6 at 7pm , 33 Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn. FREE!
This is the first time most of these films have screened in New York.
I am also doing a phytogram workshop with Amina Gingold on September 7 and 8. Register here.
June 4–15 S(8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, A Coruña, Spain /
So excited to announce that I will be at S(8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico this year!
June 5–8
INPUT PERSONALISED TUTORING SPACE FOR FILM PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
June 9
DIRECT ANIMATION EXPLORATORY WORKSHOP
Collaborating with Philip Hoffman, Robin Riad and Rhayne Vermette to lead an exploratory direct animation workshop for visual arts students:
June 9th, 19:30
FRANCI DURÁN: ANTÍDOTOS CONTRA EL OLVIDO
Film programme curated by Elena Duque
June 14 and 15
XPRESA WORKSHOP WITH FRANCI DURÁN
teaching a phytography workshop as part of XPresa
May 31, Compendium at ACME Oscura in Madrid! /
Delighted that Compendium will screen in Most Beautiful Touch short experimental film program at Acme Obscura curated by Robin Riad.
Friday May 31, at ACME, C/Corral de Cantos, 4
May 24 and 25th Film Talks Touring Programmes at Close Up Cinema, London UK /
The last 2 screenings for the Film Talks Touring Programmes will be on May 24 and 25, 8:15 at Close Up Cinema in London, UK
Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema, edited by Simon Payne and Andrew Vallence
Programme 1 May 24, 8:15pm
Programme 2 May 25th, 8:15pm