SATURDAY, JULY 6 – 7:30 PM with filmmaker Charles de Agustin in person for Q+A
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Join us for Elements of Dying: a dissemination of life, objects and bodies into experimental filmic material and digital artifice. An anatomic reflection on the afterlife, reincarnation and personification after death. In the works of Charles de Augustin, Martin Dávalos, Jean-Jacques Martinod, Nik Liguori, Carolina Meza, and Nuria González Pimentel, flesh is a cavity for trans-cultural experiences, subject to temporal atrophy and manipulation. This program considers the corporal experience and its relation to personal cinematic creation.
screening:
MRI (or, MAGNETIC RESONANCE)
dir. Carolina Meza, 2023
3 min. México.
Born from a process of reflection on death and drive for life driven by the filmmaker’s mother’s cancer defeat, this film uses her cancer magnetic resonance to encompass conversations regarding fears during surgeries and allow viewers to inhabit death and observe it from another perspective.
INTERIOR SHOT
dir. Charles de Augustin, 2023
9 min. United States.
INTERIOR SHOT is composed of the filmmaker’s personal surgery footage and breathing exam audio, alongside poetry on grief, work, luck, and time.
THE DEVIL’S KNEE
dir. Martin Dávalos, 2023
5 min. México.
The body as an archive, memory as a witness of possible futures, the image as a will. Fragments of 8mm film that disintegrate before a body that seeks to be seen, bodies that sprout incessantly. THE DEVIL’S KNEE explores the systematic erasure of identities, a trace in the archive to question memory, non-presence.
MOONSHINE/ST. PAUL
dir. Nik Liguori, 2023
8 min. United States.
From a chance encounter with a video piece in a museum, an auto-fictional narrative is prompted about loss and missed connections, appropriating footage from works by Rineke Dijkstra and exploitation filmmaker turned Southern-evangelist propagandist, Ron Ormond, as well as recordings from the filmmaker’s personal archive.
ARCHIVOS LUMINICOS Y OTRAS SENSIBILIDADES
dir. Nuria González Pimentel, 2021
6 min. México.
Reverberations of fear and desire stemming from the drive to mirror the gaze and assert oneself as an image. A trans body beholds the possibility of collapsing into an inarticulable flux of home movies. Conceived as an embodiment of a logic of surfaces, this self-portrait summons familiar ghosts dwelling the wound of an image.
LA BALA DE SANDOVAL
dir. Jean-Jacques Martinod, 2019
Jean-Jacques Martinod
17 min. Ecuador.
Isidro meanders through the rainforest while he and his brother recount the times he found himself face to face with death itself.
XINEMA [zin-em-a] is a nomadic artist-run experimental film series founded and based on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam and the Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, BC). They operate between spaces and regions, facilitating experimental screenings, workshops and related events, with a focus on local wherever that may be.
Special thanks to Avalon Fast.