Traje de Luces | Suit of Lights at CODEC in Mexico City /  by Francisca Duran

Traje de Luces by Francisca Duran

Tonight! Hoy! 27 noviembre en CODEC Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental y Video en la Ciudad de Mexico | Mexico City

https://www.franciduran.art/traje-de-luces-suit-of-lights screens in:
PROGRAMA 3: CADÁVER EXQUISITO | EXQUISITE CORPSE along with work by | junto a obras de Emiliano Caballero, Walter Forsberg, Stephen Crompton, Alex Morelli, Emma Piper-Burket, Tomonari Nishikawa, Roberto Garcia, Talena Sanders.

Es un honor mostrar trabajo en Mexico por primera vez! This is my first screening in Mexico!
Other Canadian artists screening at CODEC this year include Cecilia Araneda, Kent Tate and Charlotte Clermont.

Recent and upcoming screenings and news! /  by Francisca Duran

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Monday November 4 Cinesiege, York Cinema and Media Department’s BFA in Media Arts awards
I was delighted to be on the jury and to present awards to outstanding films made by York undergrads. This year’s Cinesiege Jury consisted of Maya Bankovic, Stuart Hands, Ravi Srinivasan, and Adina Pintilie

Wednesday November 13, 20:00— It Matters What at Zinebi in Bilbao Spain
It Matters What will screen in a program of short films at Zinebi International Festival of Short Films in Bilbao. http://zinebi.eus/web/en/zinebi61/programming/wednesday-13/

Saturday November 16, 3:30pm— Traje de Luces | Suit of Lights at Kassel DokFest in Kassel Germany
Traje de Luces will screen in the cfmdc/vtape distributors’ screening at Kassel Dokfest along with works by Rolla Tahir, Christina Battle, Daniel Hackborn, Kent Tate, Suk-Fong Wong, Sara Angelucci, Adam Shingwak Khalil, Zack Khalil, Paul Wong, Yoshiki Nishimura and Kent Monkman

November 21–23—Launch of Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada ed Deanna Bowen
Book launch, screenings and events! https://akimbo.ca/listings/other-places-reflections-on-media-arts-in-canada/
Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada Published by MANO-RAMO with the collaboration of Public Books. Edited by Deanna Bowen. This book includes an essay by Andrea Zittlau about my work, FRAGMENTED VISIONS OF CONTROL—Francisca Duran’s cinema of cuts and puzzles.
Many artists are featured in this ambitious volume that investigates the historical and contemporary contributions that First Peoples, racialized, and LGBTQ artists and administrators have made to the media arts in Canada.
Jackman Hall Art Gallery of Ontario

Saturday November 23—Phytogram Workshop at La Cinematográfica in Vigo Spain
I will be teaching participants the Phytogram experimental animation technique in this hands-on class.
https://www.lacinematografica.com/curso-con-francisca-duraacuten.html
*the phytogram technique was created by artist Karel Doing.

November 28–30—Traje de Luces | Suit of Lights at CODEC International Experimental Film and Video Festival in Mexico City
Details soon!

November 30— Cecilia Araneda’s Master Class: Can the Political be Experimental?
Latinx artist Cecilia Araneda speaks about her practice and will show examples from her films, my films and SoJin Chun’s work. Honoured to be included! http://www.ceciliaaraneda.ca/master-class-in-vienna-can-the-political-be-experimental/?fbclid=IwAR0yhKPiKIDCDeAgnWSzXvC7RGXxa6NEM7fLLVBduigAItzR1ggi8RWGJ-E

December 5—It Matters What screens in Analogica 9 in Bolzano Italy
https://www.analogica.org/analogica9pr2.html

It Matters What at Planet at Focus in TORONTO /  by Francisca Duran

It Matters What by Francisca Duran

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

It Matters What : ”A textual and textural filmic manifesto'.” (Kim Knowles, programmer Edinburgh International Film Festival)

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!

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. 

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)

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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