VOICE OVER: Performances in response to films

Join us for an afternoon of performances by In The Mood Magazine’s community of writers in response to films from Reel Asian’s archives!
About this Event

and present: VOICE OVER

For this event, we’ve curated 4 films from Reel Asian’s archives, to which 4 writers from In The Mood Mag’s community and 1 musician will respond live. But the catch is: none of the artists will have seen the films we’ve selected until it’s screened for them and the audience 👀

This program is all about our instinctive reactions to film, those messy and brilliant gut feelings that risk being ironed out with too much time to think.

VOICE OVER will consist of the following format:

1. A screening of a short experimental film (5-10 minutes)

2. Live musical accompaniment by Jaz Tsui (10 minutes) while a writer works on their ekphrastic response to the film

3. The writer will perform their short piece for the audience (5 minutes)

And repeat!

Summer is for surprise and spontaneity, and for finding respite from the heat in a cool, dark screening room. 🎥 It will be a space of play, experimentation, and cross-medium conversation!

Featuring performances by:

• EJ Kneifel
• Furqan Mohamed
• Alexander Mooney
• Dhvani Ramanujam
• Jaz Tsui

In response to short films by:

• Oliver Husain
• Meesoo Lee
• Lesley Loksi Chan
• Constant Yen

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is an expansive film criticism journal that delves into film, TV, music videos, and celebrity culture through personal essays, conversations, and unconventional forms of criticism like poetry, diaries, and visual art.

TACLA (tacla.ca) is a critical commons that publishes collaborative and interdisciplinary critical writing to activate Asian Canadian archival and contemporary artwork, film and literature. Its flagship program, the Youth Critics Initiative, is an 8-month writing incubator for long-form film and media arts criticism, run in partnership with the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.

Accessibility info:

• Wheelchair-accessible, gender-neutral washrooms available on all floors of the building
• Captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided
• 401 Richmond is a wheelchair-accessible building with an elevator to each floor

There are two wheelchair-accessible entranceways: one is located at the front entrance near the Dark Horse Cafe (just east of Spadina Avenue); the second entrance (with ramp access and automatic doors) is at the north-east corner of the building, near the Spacing and Swipe retail shops (just west of the corner of Richmond and Peter Streets).

To get to The Commons @ 401, please take the elevator up to the 4th floor. All facilities in The Commons are wheelchair-accessible.

Please email [email protected] if you have any questions or access needs.