Screening: aCinema Summer Screening Series Friday, July 19th at 7PM

Join us for the first-ever aCinema Summer Screening Series, featuring a weekend of six programs curated by Takahiro Suzuki and Janelle VanderKelen! We are thrilled to welcome them back to the gallery for this special, condensed presentation, which comprises aCinema’s Season 8.

Screenings will take place at 7 pm on Friday; 3 pm, 5 pm, and 7 pm on Saturday; and 5 pm and 7 pm on Sunday.

The first two screenings will feature 17 works selected from the aDifferent Program open call held this spring, which received nearly 200 submissions from around the globe. The weekend will then move into four additional curated screenings including works by Asako Ujita, Ayla Dmyterko, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Panu Johansson, Victoria Verseau, and more!

A beautiful accordion-fold program produced by Woodland Pattern and Split Fountain Press will be available for purchase in commemoration of this event. More information about this publication, and about the screenings, is forthcoming on our website.

Friday July 19th, Full Program at 7PM:

Lines That Fold The Wind (TRT approx 62 min) 

why people be mad at me sometimes, Mahlet Cuff, 2 min 40 sec SYNOPSIS: 

A meditation on the misappropriation of Dancehall music while using Black Feminist Citational  praxis.  

why some people be mad at me sometimes is a single channel experimental film that cites the  mother of Dancehall Sister Nancy singing her song bam bam in dialogue with Maya Angelou’s  performance of the poem The Mask. The video is a meditation on the misappropriation of  Blackness within music, and how often Black folks are told to not criticize but to smile and be  grateful. All while tracing the filmmakers' relationship to Dancehall and Afro Caribbean culture  through archival footage of themselves as a young person dancing at Folklorama. Folklorama  has the intention to be a space for sharing diverse cultures but oftentimes a space of cultural  consumption that erases the colonial history of the countries that are on display. 

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: 

Mahlet Cuff is a Black queer femme born and based in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Treaty 1 Territory).  They are a writer, programmer, artist, curator and DJ. In their artistic practice they question  conventional narratives about relationship-building both within themselves and with their kin in  the world. They draw inspiration from the idea of creating their own worlds, building and  rebuilding what it means to generate bonds with one another. They have written pieces for  BlackFlash, Peripheral Review, Cmag, Public Parking and Akimbo. Cuff's interest as a curator  focuses on the ways that Black women and gender non-conforming artists are able to use  critical fabulation as a way to understand themselves and their histories. She has curated work  for Window Winnipeg, Take Home BIPOC arts house, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, The  Dave Barber Cinematheque, the8fest, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, BlackFlash Expanded,  and VTape. Why some people be mad at me sometimes is their first short film. 

Calls and Candle Light, Juyi Mao, 5 min 58 sec 

SYNOPSIS: 

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: 

Juyi Mao (Hefei, Anhui Province, China, 1991) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He  earned his BA from Xiamen University and an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art.  

He has received grants from United States Artists, NYFA, Queens Council on the Arts, and the  Foundation for Contemporary Arts. He is a MacDowell Film/Video fellow, and he has attended  numerous other artist-in-residency with awards, such as Millay Arts, Vermont Studio Center,  NARS Foundation, and Franconia Sculpture Park.  

His work has been exhibited and screened at renowned art venues internationally, including  Anthology Film Archives, ARGOS Centre for Audiovisual Arts, CAFA Art Museum, La Mama  Experimental Theatre Club, Museum of Modern Art, among others. His films have played at  various festivals including the 2019 Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art, 24e 

Rencontres Internationales Traverse, 67 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Beijing  International Short Film Festival, Bogota Experimental Film Festival, Kinemastik International  Short Film Festival, Reykjavík International Film Festival, the One Minutes, and Video Art  Miden. 

Wasting, Sinking, Dazzling, Floating, 찬민 김 (Chanmin Kim), 11 min 36  sec 

SYNOPSIS: 

I am now located in the time and space between dreams and reality. Perhaps I fell asleep or  almost fell asleep at some point. But still I blink and stare at something or am stared at by  something. Between the noise, the leaking light, and my perceptions, I am wasting, sinking,  dazzling and floating.  

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: 

찬민 김 Chanmin Kim was born in Korea and majored in digital arts at university. Currently  studying experimental film in Germany. Chanmin Kim is interested in personal experiences and  fiction derived from them. It is often a real event, but sometimes it has to do with a dream.  

Alberta’s Room, Victoire Karera Kampire, 17 min 38 sec SYNOPSIS: 

Alberta's Room is a journey into the dreams and nightmares of Alberta Gay. The film looks back  at a pop icon's tragic fate, exploring a female perspective on a tragedy that has been described  as a man's business. Alberta's Room is an experimental film about absence and grief, straddling  the border between documentary and fiction. 

Alberta’s Room is an experimental film on the border of documentary and fiction about absence  and mourning. 

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: 

Victoire Karera Kampire is a Rwandan-Belgian director and sound designer (Solange Brought Mona Lisa Home, Too Many Birds, Alberta's 

Room). 

At the heart of her artistic quest is the notion of absence filling her films - places of hallucinated  archives and experimentation at the border of documentary and fiction - with ghostly  presences.   

In addition to her personal projects,Victoire Karera K. has collaborated with Johan Grimonprez,  as documentary reseacher, on his latest feature "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" awarded at  Sundance. She also created vidéo pieces for the stage, in collaboration with South African  choreographer Moya Michael (it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon the moon, KVS/Wiels) and with the Collectif Faire-Part, Fallon Mayanja & Mawena Yahouessi (Joy Boy, A tribute to Julius Eastman - De Singel). 

Victoire Karera K. is currently developing her next film "Ejo".

Bruised Fruit & Underfed Flora, Justin Rhody, 6 min 17 sec  SYNOPSIS: 

A straddling of the dynamics that link and distort sound and image. Beginning with a soundtrack  that Rhody composed from recordings by long-time collaborator, Jeremy Kennedy, the structure  and visual anatomy of the film was then constructed around its sonic form. The interplay,  independence and connection between the two components intuitively create an indefinite non linear narrative, resulting in Bruised Fruit & Underfed Flora. 

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: 

Justin Rhody is a filmmaker, photographer, curator and sound artist based in Santa Fe, New  Mexico. His work has been widely exhibited internationally and he has been organizing art, film  and music events for over 20 years. Rhody is a co-founder of No Name Cinema and works as  the Cinema Director at the Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe. He runs the Physical media  label, and plays in various free-improv ensembles. 

quilt frame, Anna Hogg, 7 min 17 sec  

SYNOPSIS: 

Anna Hogg is an artist and filmmaker whose work indulges in the impossible and the  unknowable, exploring these fields as productive sites for play and wild flights of imagination.  Allowing truth to be unstable and knowledge to be indeterminate, her work “stays with the  trouble” of subjects ranging from the archive, to the cinematic apparatus, to surveillance  technology, and especially their relation to memory, knowledge, and regimes of truth. Her films have screened internationally, including Prismatic Ground Film Festival, Kasseler  DokFest, Chicago Underground Film Festival, San Diego Underground Film Festival, and Big  Sky Documentary Film Festival. She was awarded the Jury prize for Best International Work at  the 2017 WNDX Festival, and nominated for the Golden Key award at the 2017 Kasseler  DokFest. In 2023, she co-directed and co-founded the inaugural event of the Odds & Ends Film  Festival with Light House Studio. She holds an MFA in Film & Video from the California Institute  of the Arts and now teaches Film at the University of Virginia. 

Бабушка Галя и Дедушка Аркадий // Grandma Galya and Grandpa  Arkadiy, Anna Kipervaser, 4 min 24 sec  

SYNOPSIS: 

A jovial and dreamy rumination on love. On time passing. On what we collect, what we hold on  to, and how we maintain connection to homeplace, to ourselves. 

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: 

Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born artist whose practice engages with a range of topics  including human and animal bodies, ethnicity, religion, colonialism, and environmental  conservation. Her engagement with these topics is informed by a commitment to formal  experimentation, DIY and alternative processes, spanning disciplines including experimental  and documentary moving image works in both 16mm film and digital video. Her work has  screened at festivals internationally, including at Process Experimental Film Festival,  Slamdance Film Festival, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Crossroads Film Festival,  Edinburgh International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, San Francisco International Film  Festival, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Light Field, Antimatter, Fracto, Imagine  Science Film Festival, Prismatic Ground, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee  Underground Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Athens International Film and 

Video Festival, Indie Grits Film Festival, Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogota, among  others. Anna's work also screens in classrooms, galleries, museums, microcinemas,  basements, and schoolhouses! Her films are distributed by CFMDC, Alchemiya, and Canyon  Cinema. She is also a painter, printmaker, educator, curator of exhibitions, programmer of  screenings.   

An Inimitable Place Called Home, Jolene Mok, 5 min 33 sec  SYNOPSIS: 

This work was created to reflect a constant wanderer’s overdue homecoming before yet another  departure. 

The numerous possibilities of navigating Hong Kong are truly extraordinary. The film’s basic  premise is to show Hong Kong’s unique cityscape visualised through land, sea, and air. For  example, various mass transit vehicles traverse the city recurrently and are juxtaposed with  free-flying sparrows living in their very own humble neighbourhoods. 

I am drawn to the poetry found in mundane, everyday scenes in Hong Kong. I wanted to  magnify this uniqueness and beauty by using the analogue medium of black and white 16mm  film. I hand-processed the film stock myself. The flaws that appeared during the film-handling  process, such as the dust traces and scratch marks, are important assets that work with a  beautiful poem by Hong Fu to present an orchestrated work to audiences. 

—Jolene Mok 

Suppose a Few Birds Fly By 

Suppose a few birds fly by 

and you see the light 

glimmering 

inside the silence is a place 

that belongs to you 

—Hong Fu 

Translated by Eleanor Goodman 

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: 

Jolene Mok was born and raised in Hong Kong. An experimental artist, she takes video, film and  photography as her major creative platforms. Mok earned her M.F.A. in Experimental &  Documentary Arts at Duke University in 2013. She has been exposed to an interdisciplinary  learning and working environment since her undergraduate education in the School of Creative  Media through her major in the Critical Inter-Media Laboratory (2003-2007). 

Mok takes both practical and theoretical components as interconnected aspects throughout her  creative process. She is open and always ready to play with and incorporate emerging  situations in her artistic pursuits for the generation of unexpected, meaningful outcomes. Since  2006, Mok’s works have been shown worldwide. In 2015, she was awarded the Asian Cultural  Council Fellowship. Mok has been on itinerant taking part in artist residency programs from  2011 onwards, she does not base anywhere, & she is happy to go to wherever the world  welcomes her to go. 

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