Upcoming Screenings and August–October 2021 News by Francisca Duran

It Matters What by Francisca Duran

Sunday, August 8; Sundown 8:15–9:00 PM–11:00 PM EST—IN PERSON—FREE, Toronto
It Matters What is screening at the Vector Festival in the of Ties and Tethers programme curated by Maria Alejandrina Coates at Fort York National Historic Site: 250 Fort York Blvd, Toronto.
With work by by Christina Battle, Benjamin Chang, Aslı Dinç, Kanika Gordon, Kite, Vishal Kumaraswamy, and Maari Sugawara.

For FREE tickets: Register here and use code TOPSfriendVector21.

August 1–31, daily at dusk—IN PERSON, Toronto
It Matters What is featured at PIX Gallery’s View/Regard.
View/Regard is a new program of works by women. Every month a new film will be screened at dusk on the PIX FILM Gallery Window. Artists include: Nadine Valcin, Megan Michalak, Phoebe Parsons, and the Sponge Gourd Collective ( Daphne Xu, Diane Zhou, Beatrix Chu).
Details
here INCLUDING how to watch the film on the Artvive App.

Thursday September 30 6pm—ONLINE, FREE
Wayfarers/Caminantes a film I made with Vanessa John will play in Latinidad, a programme of short films by Canadian/LatinX filmmakers at Alucine Latin Film and Media Art Festival. With work by: Jean-Pierre Marchant, Jerusa Leão, Madi Piller, Gustavo Cerquera Benjumea, Marcos Arriaga, SoJin Chun, Cecilia Araneda and Javier Lovera.
FREE tickets here

Early October (final dates TBD)—IN PERSON—Winnipeg
A retrospective of my work curated by Cecilia Araneda will be presented at the WNDX Festival in Winnipeg in fall 2021, in partnership with Harbour Collective and Video Pool. https://akimbo.ca/listings/researching-latin-canadian-cinema/

October 14—Podcast, details TDB, Montreal
An interview with curator Michele Fielder about Cuentos de mi niñez/Tales from my childhood will air on Radio SBC2 in partnership with SBC Galerie D’Art Contemporain in Montreal.




Anto Astudillo + Franci Durán en conversación, 1 marzo – 1 abril, 2021 by Francisca Duran

Anto Astudillo and I spoke about our work, materiality, place, violence and traces in a conversation commissioned by the Spanish online magazine corrientes.es for their LatinX artists series. Watch 4 of our films online FREE, March 1 – April 1.
https://www.corrient.es/astudillo-duran-eng

Anto Astudillo y yo conversamos sobre el arte, la materia, la violencia y los rastros para la revista Española, corrientes.es. Pueden mirar 4 películas online GRATIS, 1 de marzo – 1 de abril.
https://www.corrient.es/

Marginalia Memory Game by Francisca Duran

Marginalia Memory Game by Francisca Duran and Andrea Zittlau

Marginalia Memory Game by Francisca Duran and Andrea Zittlau

Subscribe to the Marginalia Memory Game!
The game is the result of a collaboration between myself and poet, scholar and artist Andrea Zittlau.

You will receive 6 NEW SETS OF CARDS and a link to a film-poem every 3-months by mail and a handmade box to keep them in.
At the end of the year you have a full set.

The cost is 35Euros ($57 CDN) for the year (includes shipping). You can pay by Paypal at: paypal.me/poetrypostcards or email me at franciduran.artist@gmail.com to send an e-transfer.

The project originates from our work on archiving, history, memory and memorialization as well as human and other-than-human relationships. Each set of cards is an image collage I created along with a poem written by Andrea.

The photos were taken by Emiliano Leonardi and myself at the Zoological Collection of Animals at the University of Rostock in Northern Germany.

September 2020 online and IN PERSON screenings by Francisca Duran

August 27–September 6pm (EST)
It Matters What screens online at
Vancouver International Latin American Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
aluCine: Latinx Diversidad Programme
https://vlaff.org/alucine-latinx-diversidad

September 1–15
Tales from my childhood online in
The People’s Revolution: A Showcase of New Chilean Experimental Cinema
Mayselles Documentary Screening, Harlem NY

https://www.maysles.org/calendar/2020/9/1/la-revolucin-del-pueblo-muestra-de-nuevo-cine-experimental-chilenx

September 1–30
It Matters What is a featured short film on the Toronto Society of Architects’ September Playlist
”A monthly curated list of free online films touching upon issues of architecture, the built environment, and design.”
I will also take part on a panel discussion about Experimental Cinematography on September 22. More details soon.
http://torontosocietyofarchitects.ca/

September 22, 8pm
It Matters What screens LIVE, yes LIVE at
Cinematheque Quebec in Montreal
in Cineastes Independents
https://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/fr/programmation/projections/nouveaux-films-nouvelles-cineastes

It Matters What—August 2020 online screenings by Francisca Duran

It Matters What by Francisca Duran

August 8, 7pm (EST)
Photophobia: Contemporary Moving Image Festival
Programme 3 with live Q+A with filmmakers
http://www.theinc.ca/photophobia/photophobia-2020/
https://www.facebook.com/events/323881795306974

August 22, 7pm (PST)
Crossroads 2020
Programme 2: I am bloodless / I am the cosmos
http://www.sfcinematheque.org/video-programs/crossroads-2020-program-2/
https://www.facebook.com/events/745788989296598/
All Crossroads 2020 programmes will be available online August 21-September 30

BOY online at MOCA Online Museo until May 9 by Francisca Duran

BOY by Francisca Duran

Watch BOY online: http://museomoca.com/francisca-duran

"What does it look like at the beginning? The first time he ever saw a table, the large foot of an adult stepping towards him, a window opening like a heart. Duran offers us rainy moments of Vancouver as an accompaniment to the birth of her first child. A slowly moving hail of abstract nights lights precedes a slow motion birth, recoloured and rephotographed from a TV screen. The artist’s voice offers up a series of dates along with the facts that accompany them, her son’s favourite book, animal and word (No). Each instance of looking arrives in fragments, there is no story to pull it all together, unless it is the story of memory itself, with its necessary omissions, its shorn away pieces and left-overs. The formal experimentalisms and material fetishes that inform this movie appear here as an analogue for memory itself, an inheritance of seeing in the dark. It makes me wonder: is every film the mother of its audience?"
(Mike Hoolboom, Made in Canada: Projections of Beauty)


Thank you Paloma Hernandez for the interview and Pablo Gomez Sala for his technical and creative work with this project.

Tales from my childhood online at MOCA Online Museo April 26–May 9 by Francisca Duran

Tales from my childhood by Francisca Duran

Watch Tales from my childhood online: http://museomoca.com/francisca-duran

Tales from my childhood will screen online at MOCA: Museo Online de Cine Autobiografico from April 26–May 9 as part of a 6-month long exhibition featuring the work of Toronto area autobiographical, experimental filmmakers. The program was curated by artist/academic/programmer Xisela Franco and includes works by Philip Hoffman, Mike Hoolboom, Lesley Loksi Chan, Lina Rodriguez, Marcos Arriaga, Tracy German and others.

Thank you Paloma Hernandez for the interview and Pablo Gomez Sala for his technical and creative work with this project.

April 15—It Matters What in Analogica Selection 9, a special live streaming program by Francisca Duran

It Matters What by Francisca Duran

It Matters What screens in a special live streaming programme of Analogica 9

ANALOGICA SELECTION 9 /// special live streaming program #1   > 64'
APRIL 8st WED / 3PM EDT
Live screenings will be streamed twice:
First screening / 9PM / Central European time
Second screening / 8PM / Pacific time

The live streaming is available worldwide.
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Jonas's loft by Joel Schlemowitz / 6' 24'' / USA / 2019 / 16mm / exp-doc / no sound
Scenes from the Periphery by Derek Taylor / 2' 50'' / 2019 / USA / super8 / exp
Unless You're Living It by Sarah Bliss / 8' 22'' / Canada – USA / 16mm / doc
Sometimes All of Summertime by Linda Fenstermaker / 8' 34'' / USA / 2019 / 16mm / exp
Scenes from a Transient Home by Roger Horn / 13' 09'' / 2019 / South Africa / super8 / doc
It Matters What by Francisca Duran / 9'03'' / Canada / 2019 / 16mm / exp- animtion
Temple of Truth by Giuseppe Boccassini / 15' 24''/ Usa / 2018 / 16mm footage / exp
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link streaming
https://www.analogica.org/live.html