About this Event
Asiatic Itineraries is thrilled to be hosting ’s Public Screens program for their first ever presentation in Tkaronto, colonially called Toronto. Through our 6-channel window projection, four films will be screening throughout November from outside.
Screenings will be accessible from outside November 6-20, Tuesday-Sunday 5-10pm.
Join us at Asiatic Itineraries for a Tea and Tour event!
We’re opening our doors for folks to experience the inner workings of this film curation,.
Come sit, relax, drink tea, and watch films from inside and outside!
November 19th 6-8pm
Location: 205 Richmond St W, Rm 403, Toronto
Films Curated by: FORM’s Co-Artistic Directors, danielle Mackenzie Long and Erin Lum
Curatorial Statement:
Handwritten letters to grandparents and heartfelt reflections from childhood selves reveal lineages that unravel across time, space, and distance. This collection of short films investigates disconnection and ritual through an embodied multi-media lens, offering earnest meditations on how identity is shaped and transformed.
About Asiatic Itineraries:
Asiatic Itineraries is a research centre dedicated to creating more inclusive, representative cultural frameworks within diasporic media praxis. Storytelling has long been important in Asian diasporic communities, but these narratives are underrepresented in Canadian digital archives, online storytelling projects, and other technology-based humanities research. Led by Prof. Immony Mèn, Canada Research Chair in Diasporic Digital Humanities, Asiatic Itineraries aims to develop new ethical models for research creation and humanities-based scholarship around diasporic narratives, cultural expression, network formation, and knowledge-sharing.
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FORM is grateful to commission interdisciplinary artist karmella benedito de barros to create an embodied, land-based short film that will play at the beginning of each film screening. karmella’s film offers audiences a moment to collectively pause, ground, and reflect; a means of deepening our understanding of the ways our bodies are interconnected with the lands we live and gather on.
the laws of this land
An explorative land acknowledgement, grounded as a soundscape and storytelling piece featuring Tiffany Joseph of the Sḵx̱wu7mesh (Fresh Water people) and W̱SÁNEĆ (Saltwater people, Emerging people). This piece takes place on the unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔ peoples at Mahon park, where both Tiffany and the film's director (karmella) grew up climbing trees and running around by the creek.
karmella benedito de barros is 2spirit Afro-Brazilian & Nêhiyawak/mixed-settler, and a member of the Mistawasis First Nation (treaty 6). they are an interdisciplinary artist, organizer and co-founder or the art ecoststem collective. born and raised as an uninvited guest on stolen & unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories, karmella’s experimental practice is informed by the land, seasonality, preservation, and tending relations. their experimental film practice leans towards a process of witnessing and conjuring collective felt sense through mixed-media storytelling.
About the Films:
No Less Asian by Melissa Lam (Canada) EMERGING
Duration: 1:36
No Less Asian explores the struggles and triumphs of being a 2nd Generation Asian-Canadian, portrayed through the medium of dance.
HOME - 家 by Bai Li Wiegmans (Netherlands) EMERGING
Canadian Premiere, Duration: 10:35
HOME - 家 unfolds as a touching autobiographical dance short film, following the journey of a Chinese adoptee in the Netherlands.
Vết Sẹo Lòng: Tiếng Ngân Nga Của Quê Nhà (Heart Scars, Where Homeland Hums) by cát nguyên (Vietnam) EMERGING
Canadian Premiere, Duration: 14:11
Content Warning: Death
In this living video-performance-collage, through mud calligraphy, cát nguyên embodies their grandfather’s poetry alongside their own: a poem that grandfather and grandchild have written together throughout more than a century.
Accessibility Note:
The research centre is located on the 4th floor, accessible by passenger elevator and staircase. There are gender neutral and accessible washrooms on the floor. If you have questions about accessibility, please contact [email protected]
A range of seating options are included: floor, bench, and seats with backs.
Open captions will be included throughout the event.
Event venue & nearby stays
Asiatic Itineraries (OCAD University), 205 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Canada
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