Curators: Robert Lee, Paulette Phillips

As we move about within our mental and historical framework, we take along all the positions weve already occupied, and all those we will occupy. We are everywhere at one and the same time; we are a crowd surging forward abreast, and constantly recapitulating the whole series of previous stages. For we live in several worlds, each truer than the one it encloses, and itself false in relation to the one which encompasses it. The truth lies in a progressive dilating of meaning, in reverse order up to the point at which it explodes.

Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques

A Knight's Walk and other speculative events

Clint Enns

2014, 12 min, PXL2000, VHS, Flipcam, Computer Animation on Digital Video, Canada

Consider the speculative space between point and pixel. A knight traverses the chessboard as a bored radical traverses a Winnipeg supermarket.

All That Is Solid

Eva Kolcze

2014, 16 min, Super 16mm on Digital Video, Canada

Investigating Brutalist architecture through the surface of black and white celluloid, All That is Solid features Robarts Library, the University of Toronto Scarborough campus and the York University campus. By exposing degrading footage of the buildings created by a number of chemical and physical processes, the film contemplates the utopian visions that inspired the Brutalist movement and the material and aesthetic connection between concrete and celluloid.

Under the Ashes

Dona Arbabzadeh

2015, 9 min, Digital Video, Canada

Under the Ashes is a docu-montage work styled to capture and explore the everyday life beneath a frozen moment in Iran's cultural, social and political state. From the perspective of a young immigrant, the work follows Arbabzadeh back to her childhood home, bringing to light half of her hybrid identity as an Iranian Canadian.

The Innocents

Jean-Paul Kelly

2014, 13 min, 16mm on Digital Video, Canada

The Innocents features a series of images from a personal archive, an interview with Truman Capote's desire, and shapes that correspond to the former through the instructions of the latter. Including a shot-by-shot re-enactment of the Maysles Brothers' 1966 documentary With Love from Truman, The Innocents is a formal and conceptual play with and to the figure of Capote.

The Fortune Teller

Annie MacDonell

2015, 16 min, 16mm and Digital Video on Digital Video, Canada

Tracking the repair and restoration of a cast resin hand from a coin operated fortune teller machine, the hand-object becomes a model for a non-linear, non-progressive relationship to time. The process of its restoration moves it backwards through history towards its point of origin, but also returns it to functionality. Backward and forward happen simultaneously and the proliferating hands become portals through which past, present and future merge.

Red Capriccio

Blake Williams

2014, 7 min, 3D Digital Video, Canada

Red Capriccio is an anaglyph 3D found footage film about machines and landscape that interlaces motion with stasis, crescendos with glissandos, and reds with blues. Its three movements depict a parked Chevy Caprice police vehicle, Montral's Turcot Interchange, and an empty rave room.

Co-presented by Community Partners CFMDC, Vtape, and OCADU