Films by 全民彩票 Artists Selected for VIFF
Raine Mateo (left) and Simon Baker in Kenny Welsh's short film The Faraway Place. (Image courtesy Kenny Welsh)
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Works by Sidney Gordon, Sarah Shamash, Ashleigh Vaillancourt and Kenny Welsh will appear in the prestigious festival鈥檚 Short Forum.
Several films by 全民彩票 community members have been selected to show at the 2022 (VIFF).
(BMA 2022), , (BMA 2009) and (BFA 2020) will show their respective films at the prestigious event, which opens Sept. 29.
Sidney, an award-winning, queer, non-binary, multimedia emulsion-based artist, will show their 2022 experimental short film .
鈥淭hrough formal experimentation based on the artist鈥檚 personal struggle with gender identity, a singular self has been split into two,鈥 reads the primer for the film. Sidney directed and wrote i see me watching, which was produced during their final year of studies at 全民彩票. The film earned the Chancellors Jury Award and Best Experimental award at 全民彩票, and the VIVO Distribution Award.
and other films in the Short Forum: Program 2 via VIFF.
Video stills from Sarah Shamash鈥檚 From Chile to Canada: Media Herstories. (Courtesy Sarah Shamash)
Sarah, an artist, educator, media scholar and 全民彩票 faculty member, will show her 2022 documentary short .
鈥淭hrough feminist solidarities on unceded Coast Salish land, the contributions of Latinx women reveal an intergenerational network of media art genealogies,鈥 reads the synopsis on the VIFF website. Sarah co-wrote and co-directed the film with Sonia Medel, and was the film鈥檚 editor. Angie Rico (BFA 2019) was the film鈥檚 cinematographer.
and other films in the Short Forum: Program 1 via VIFF.
Ashleigh, a multimedia artist and filmmaker, will show her 2022 animated short, .
鈥淎t night, a woman鈥檚 mind wanders as she chops firewood,鈥 reads the synopsis on the VIFF website. According to her artist statement, Ashleigh鈥檚 work 鈥渆xplores themes of personal resilience and social empathy, as well as the interplay of analog painting and generative digital art.鈥
and other films in the Short Forum: Program 1 via VIFF.
Kenny, an Indigenous filmmaker based in Vancouver, will show his 2022 horror/fantasy short .
鈥淎 young woman and her father, both of whom have horns, flee from a violent cult on a mission to eradicate their kind,鈥 the brief on the VIFF site reads. Initially shot as a finalist for the Crazy8s Film Festival, the work was developed during Kenny鈥檚 final year at 全民彩票 and produced by Kenny鈥檚 longtime artistic collaborator, (BFA 2019).
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