It Matters What in WINNIPEG at WNDX! /  by Francisca Duran

It Matters What by Francisca Duran

It Matters What will screen at WNDX FESTIVAL OF MOVING IMAGE in Winnipeg on Sunday October 6 at 4:00pm at the Winnipeg Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street

It Matters What in Animals Future Past along with films by Emma Piper Burkett, Isabelle Carbonell, Jennifer Dysart and Kate Tessa Lee & Tom Schön.
”Our relationship to the natural world is changing; changes; has changed. With a misconception about the genesis of fossil fuel as a jumping off point, the films in this program explore the complex and often violent relationship between humans and animals. Stories of inter-generational hunting practice told from opposite sides of the globe reflect a symbiotic past and an uncertain future. The spectres of extractivism and climate change loom. Meanwhile, in Qatar, augmented humans race camels in a chaotic spectacle of proto-transhumanism.” (WNDX programme)

TORONTO Screenings: It Matters What at Alucine and Planet in Focus /  by Francisca Duran

It Matters What by Francisca Duran

It Matters What will screen in Toronto at Alucine on Friday October 4 and Planet in Focus on Friday October 18. I hope you can come!

It Matters What : ”A textual and textural filmic manifesto combining extracts from Donna Haraway’s essay ‘Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene’ with in-camera animation, contact printing and phytograms (the exposure of 16mm film overlaid with plant material and dried in direct sunlight).” (Kim Knowles, programmer Edinburgh International Film Festival)

ALUCINE LATIN FILM + MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
Friday October 4 | viernes 4 octubre at 21:00 Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Ave, Toronto
It Matters What in Latin and Canadian Experimental Films along with films by Cecilia Araneda, Alexandra Gelis, Jorge Lozano and others! The program: “Tackles themes of memory and oblivion, QT2SBIPOC immigrant/migrant experiences, homophobia and transphobia, the passage of time and mortality, these films explore a variety of techniques — such as stop-motion, super8, 16mm, hand-processing, animation, and collage — as well as conventions in the use of space, sound and editing.” (cfmdc.org)

AND

PLANET IN FOCUS ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
Friday October 18 at 21:00 | Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto
Very excited to screen It Matters What with Thierry Loa’s 20-22 Omega at Planet in Focus. Grateful to the programmers for selecting my film and also for screening a short film before every feature at their fabulous festival!

October 2019 Screenings! /  by Francisca Duran

October 2019 screenings for Traje de Luces | Suit of Lights and It Matters What. Thank you programmers for selecting my work! I am grateful to be screening my films along with many talented artists. Details below and I will post more for each closer to the dates.

PROCESO DE ERROR | VALPARISO CHILE
Friday October 4 | viernes 4 octubre at 19:00
Traje de Luces | Suit of Lights in Texturas de la realidad (Textures of Reality) | Sala Alternativa Film Insomnia, Teatro Condell 1585, Valparaíso
INVE Plataforma Experimental de Arte, www.inve.cl

ALUCINE LATIN FILM + MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL | TORONTO CANADA
Friday October 4 | viernes 4 octubre at 21:00
It Matters What in Latin and Canadian Experimental Films | Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Ave, Toronto

WNDX FESTIVAL OF MOVING IMAGE | WINNIPEG CANADA
Sunday October 6 at 16:00
It Matters What in Animals Future Past | Winnipeg Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg

PLANET IN FOCUS ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL | TORONTO CANADA
Friday October 18 at 21:00
It Matters What with Thierry Loa’s 20-22 Omega | Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto

ANTIMATTER MEDIA ART http://www.antimatter.ca/ | VICTORIA CANADA
Wednesday October 23 at 21:00
It Matters What in The Shouting Flower | Deluge Contemporary Art, 636 Yates Street, Victoria

This weekend! 3 Films at VastLab Experimental Film Festival, Burbank California /  by Francisca Duran

8401, It Matters What and Traje de Luces | Suit of Lights will screen this weekend September 20–21 at VastLab Experimental Festival in Burbank California. All festival works will screen both nights on screens or projected in the space.

Friday September 20 and Saturday September 21 from 8–10pm
624 N Victory Blvd 91502
For tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vastlab-experimental-festival-tickets-63910307450

Phytogram workshop at Film for Artists: Site and Cycle /  by Francisca Duran

I had a great time working with Film for Artists: Site and Cycle Residency participants yesterday at http://artscapegibraltarpoint.ca/. We experimented with Karel Doing’s phytogram method. Phytograms are created by the exposure of black and white film overlaid with plant material soaked in a washing soda, vitamin-c and water and dried in daylight. With phytograms, plant life is both the subject matter of the images and assists the means of photographic reproduction. 

I used phytograms in It Matters What.

Some photos from the workshop are below.

Upcoming Screenings: August + September 2019 /  by Francisca Duran

It Matters What by Francisca Duran

It Matters What by Francisca Duran

Saturday August 16, 2019 | 7pm
Traje de Luces | Suit of Lights

OTRAS LATITUDES | OTHER LATITUDES
screening at CineAutopsia: Bogota Experimental Film Festival, https://www.facebook.com/events/1530774770399032/
Cinemateca de Bogota

Esta es la Selección Oficial CineAutopsia de lo más destacado del cine experimental proveniente de OTRAS LATITUDES (Función 2). 7 exquisitos poemas audiovisuales realizados por talentosos creadores del resto del mundo conforman esta poderosa muestra de lo que es hoy la experimentación audiovisual monocanal en el planeta tierra. Nos encanta presentarles en esta función 2:

►Traje de Luces / Suit of Lights, Francisca Duran, 2018, Canadá, 18min. 3seg.
►Among the Broken Furniture / Entre los muebles rotos, Ye Mimi, 2018, Taiwán, 7min. 39seg.
►Middle Eight (A Song) / Medio Ocho (Canción), Emmanuel Victor Migrino, 2018, Estados Unidos, 8min. 45seg.
►Offerings / Ofrendas, Torin Langen, 2018, Canadá, 26min. 20seg.
►Glimmers / destellos, Brandon Wilson, 2018, Estados Unidos, 5min. 54seg.
►An Excavation of Us / Una excavación de nosotros, Shirley Bruno, 2017, Francia, 11min.
►Déguste / Saboréalo / Savor it, Stéphane Baz, 2018, Francia, 5min.

Sunday 25 August 2019 | 17.00
It Matters What

UNLESS YOU'RE LIVING IT: DIS/INTEGRATION
screening at 7th Arkipel Jakarta Intrernational Documentary + Experimental Film Festival
Goethe Haus, Jl. Sam Ratulangi 9-15, Menteng, Jakarta, Indonesia

Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2193149694147601/

"The nine short films in this program each explore notions of loss through profound explorations of personal and/or political disintegration. Each short is a personal diary unto itself, delving into his/her-stories in deeply emotional ways; wherein the form is only assisted through tactility: whether hand-processed celluloid, archival video footage, in camera creation, VHS tapes, standard-definition recording or processing films with plant life." (programme by re:assemblage)
Short films by: Cecilia Araneda, Sissy Bam, Sarah Bliss, Franci Duran, Alexandra Gelis, Christine Negus, Malena Szlam.

September 21–23, 2019 | dates and times TBA
It Matters What , 8401, Traje de Luces | Suit of Lights
screening at VASTLAB Experimental Film Festival