A series of short films played on a loop for the duration of the Guelph Film Festival in small, unique venues.
DATE: NOV 6-14
FREE
diario de verano
Anivides - Francisca Duran and Cristal Buemi | CANADA
Supported by ReStore
4 min
diario de verano is an exploration of neighborhood flora in Tkaronto, focusing on Kensington Market, Parkdale and Wallace – Emmerson, areas we live and move through. Experimentation with abstract movement and the physical, compositional properties of foraged materials, strengthened our community/kinship to the land and each other. Artistic practices were explored and shared through gathering rituals, stop motion animation and phytograms, creating complex layers of ourselves intertwined through our latinx identities in this short film.
Time: During business hours
Venue: Habitat for Humanity Guelph Wellington ReStore
DIRECTOR BIO:
Anivides - Francisca Duran and Cristal Buemi
anivides is the interweaving experimental works of multidisciplinary artists Cristal Buemi and Francisca Duran focusing on analog and digital frame-by-frame approaches to showcase their abstract, study and practices. Exploring the idea of weight on our structures due to environments, experiences and their direct relations to trauma, healing and transformation. With a focus on collages of bodily works both in human and plant forms from a diasporic immigrant, bipoc, femme, queer and intergenerational perspective. anivides’ recent film diario de verano has screened at Playhouse Cinema and will show at Dawson City Film Fest and Les Sommet Du Cinema D’animation this spring.
Landscape Equations
*World Premiere*
Dan Sokolowski | CANADA
Supported by The Arboretum
5 min
Are there answers in the numbers? An experimental 16mm analogue film.
Time: During business hours
Venue: The Arboretum
DIRECTOR BIO:
Dan Sokolowski
Dan Sokolowski is a filmmaker who lives in blissful obscurity in the Yukon in Canada’s north on the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in. He has produced over 30 short films and 1 feature film, blending documentary and animation, working both in analogue and digital formats He produced the Dawson City International Short Film Festival for 18 years. He now runs the Dawson Film Lab, which concentrates on analogue film techniques.
