May 8, 7pm It Matters What at TIFF Lightbox! /  by Francisca Duran

Wednesday May 8, 7pm

It Matters What screens at TIFF Lightbox as part of Film Talks: a touring programme of experimental cinema

“Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema, edited by Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne, is a collection of unique conversations on experimental cinema, involving a range of international film and video makers from the United Kingdom, Europe, and North America. The book represents a snapshot of diverse ways that several practitioners have come to think about the field of experimental cinema in relation to other art forms, moving image culture at large, as well as wider social issues. This touring film programme features more than 20 16mm films and video works by several of the artists featured in Film Talks, drawing out new ideas and connections that span different visions of cinema.

Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne will be present to introduce the screenings. Copies of Film Talks will be available for purchase. For more details of the book, please see here.”

Film Talks tour schedule
8 May: TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto (Programme 1)
9 May: Film Studies Centre, University of Chicago (Programme 1)
10 May: Block Cinema, Northwestern University (Programme 2)
13 May: Visions, Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal (Programme 1)
14 May: Visions, Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal (Programme 2)
16 May: Ad Hoc, Toronto (Programme 2)

Saturday March 30, 2024: It Matters What will screen at the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival (Copy) /  by Francisca Duran

Honoured that It Matters What will screen in a Special Program at the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival on Saturday March 30 at 7pm in the State Theatre 1

An Animal is Not a Metaphor 
Curated by Kornelia Boczkowska
 
Since the early days of avant-garde cinema, some iconic experimental films, including Private Life of a Cat (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1947), Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963), Berlin Horse (Malcolm Le Grice, 1970), and Jamal (Ibrahim Shaddad, 1981), have abundantly featured animals, usually presented not as mere props or companions, but as central characters both closely interlinked with and independent of humans. In response to the animal crisis and the current developments of the Anthropocene, this program will demonstrate how artist-made films bring in the animal viewpoint so that animals become not just a subject or a metaphor, but a real object of the film, and provide clues to reexamining and transforming species co-existence. @aafilmfest @cfmdcfilm #experimentalfilm #phytogram #ecoprocessedfilm

Nov. 10, 7pm-10pm, Opening reception for Research garden: a compendium of lost moments /  by Francisca Duran

The opening reception for Research garden: a compendium of lost moments is this Friday November 10, 7pm-10pm during Hamilton’s November Art Crawl. I hope you can make it!

Research garden: a compendium of lost moments is curated by Lesley Loksi Chan and runs from Friday October 27 to Friday December 1st at Centre[3] for Artistic and Social Practice in partnership with the Dandelion Film Collective.

The exhibit catalogues my phytographic work with curated and unintentional plants living in Kensington Market, from 2020–2022. Details below and here.

 Visit the exhibit Wednesday–Friday 10am–5pm.
Centre[3] 173 James Street North, Hamilton ON

Only a 10-minute walk from West Harbour GO Station!

Lesley and I will be at the reception. Hope to see you there!

OPENS OCTOBER 27, 2023: Research garden: a compendium of lost moments /  by Francisca Duran

FRANCISCA DURAN: RESEARCH GARDEN: A COMPENDIUM OF LOST MOMENTS
CURATED BY: LESLEY LOKSI CHAN
EXHIBITION: OCTOBER 27 - DECEMBER 1, 2023 | OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2023, 7–10

In Francisca Duran: Research garden: a compendium of lost moments, the experimental media artist takes her analog film practice away from the screen and creates a multisensory installation centred on plant-based images. Meticulous and dreamy, the interactive exhibition includes wiry film flower sculptures sprouting from local soil, cascading film test strips on a large light table, hanging digital prints of enlarged film fragments on walls, a collection of optic objects for our viewing pleasure, and in the midst of it all, a 16mm film projector plays on loop her most recent piece, Compendium (2023). Compendium is the original work from which most of the plant-based images in the space are derived. Full of lush shapes and vivid hues, the film loop was handcrafted by Duran using the techniques of phytography and optical printing. Phytograms are created by the exposure of black and white celluloid or photo-paper overlaid with plant material and dried in daylight. With this technique, plants are both the subject of phytograms and also provide the necessary chemistry to produce them. As Duran remarks, “It is part science, part cooking, part magic.”
Read more here.

Fast Forward + Rewind: Conversations on place and space in art --Winnipeg, Manitoba /  by Francisca Duran

June 24–25
Looking forward to participating in the events of Fast Forward + Rewind: Conversations on place and space in art. This is a hybrid event: in person AND remote attendance.
For more info: http://mujerartista.ca/event/ff-rwd/

Saturday June 25:
10–11:30am
I will be a panelist on the Institution and Access Panel along with Tamara Toledo and Praba Pilar and facilitated by Cecilia Araneda
3pm–4:30pm
I will be facilitating the Community Effect Panel with Tami Miki, Shimby Zegeye-Gebrehiwot and Yolanda Paulsen

Franci Duran: In Departure’s Wake by Cecilia Araneda available FREE /  by Francisca Duran

A FREE pdf of Cecilia Araneda’s curatorial essay for the retrospective of my work that was presented at WNDX and Video Pool this fall is available to download at:
https://www.ceciliaaraneda.ca/.../FranciDuran...
Thank you Cecilia for the years of support and your beautiful words. Graphic design by Sebastien Aubin.

Retrospective presented in partnership with Harbour Collective, with support from Manitoba Arts Council / Conseil des arts du Manitoba funding. Thank you Manitoba arts council and the peer assessors who supported Harbour Collective; WNDX Festival of Moving Image and Video Pool Media Arts Centre