A collage of three vertical images. Image on the extreme left features a woman in a mustard sweater holding a phone in her hand, speaking into it while going through a book. Image in the centre is a man shot from behind facing a wall with paintings on it. The image is stylized as if shot through a thermal imaging filter. The image on the right features a man leaning out of the window of a bus looking behind. You can see mountains framed behind.A bimonthly series of presentations and discussions with Montreal-based filmmakers, organized by Farah Atoui and Muhammad Nour ElKhairy.
Invited filmmakers will share works in progress alongside completed works as a starting point for conversations about their artistic practices and creative processes, offering an opportunity to engage critically with the intersections of contemporary image-making and migration.
Through these conversations, filmmakers will reflect on how individual and collective histories of migration inform the questions, methods, and aesthetics that animate their work. The series places particular emphasis on non-fiction and hybrid image practices, exploring how these forms engage questions of identity, transgenerational memory, and displacement.
Bringing together a range of histories and geographies shaped by colonialism, war, genocide, migration, and displacement—including Vietnam, Colombia, Armenia, and Pakistan—the series explores how diasporic artistic practices in Canada, negotiate and reimagine these histories while complicating and reshaping dominant understandings of Canada itself.
The first conversation, with artist Sharlene Bamboat, will take place on Wednesday | September 23 | 1250 Rue Guy | FB 630.17 | 6–8 p.m.