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X Marks the Spot - Wednesday Screening

X Marks the Spot will transport you to different locations around the world. Each environment plays an important role in each artist's journey, informing the ways in which they embody their stories. A conversation between space, body and camera.  

This screening will be followed by a pre-recorded artist talk facilitated by Tamar Tabori.

Featured
IRAN, Emerging Category, Canadian Premiere
In Plain Sight عیان
IRAN, Emerging Category, Canadian Premiere

Tanin Torabi
DURATION: 10:30

IN PLAIN SIGHT is the result of months of exploring urban movements on a boulevard in Tehran, Iran. In a society where many questions and restrictions exist around the concept of ‘movement’, three performers try to define the borders of dance. They interact with their surroundings and thus become an integral part of the flow of the city. They accompany each other to find the power of collective movement. The journey is the destination.

CREDITS
Director: Tanin Torabi
Assistant Director: Mahsa Akbarabadi
Choreographers: Tanin Torabi in collaboration with Masoumeh Jalalieh & Tina Beyk Abbasi
Performers: Tanin Torabi, Masoumeh Jalalieh, Tina Beyk Abbasi
Cinematographer: Masoud Banafsheh
Photography: Hannaneh Heydari
Producers: Sina Saberi, Tanin Torabi
Editor: Anis Eshraqi
Colour Grading: Farbod Jalali
Production Manager: Mahsa Akbarabadi
Composer: Faran Fahimi
Style Advisor: Sahar Mactabi

IRAN, Emerging Category, Canadian Premiere
If
CANADA, Emerging Category
If
CANADA, Emerging Category

Missy Reyes
DURATION: 3:31

Grief is an ongoing journey and leaves an empty space in one's soul, yet one must continue moving through life. This piece is an expression of loss and love by four siblings. Although their sister passed away when she was a baby, her presence is imagined and felt in everything they do.

CREDITS
Director: Missy Reyes
Choreographers, Performers: Missy Reyes, Marlowe Reyes, Mekaela Reyes, Mickee Reyes, Kelly Blancas
Videographer: Anthony Grant
Editor: Missy Reyes

CANADA, Emerging Category
can u feel me thru the screen
CANADA, Emerging Category, World Premiere
can u feel me thru the screen
CANADA, Emerging Category, World Premiere

Krista Newey
DURATION: 3:31

CAN U FEEL ME THRU THE SCREEN is a collage of small moments. With an accumulation of video clips from 11 performers living in different places (Montréal, London, NYC, Salzburg, Seattle, Toronto, and Bermuda), this film celebrates the perseverance of performers during the pandemic. The film exists to recognize all performers/creators and the difficulty of having to transition to digital work. We are able to stay connected online, but what is missing when we only create for the internet? How can we make video performance feel real? Can you really feel it through the screen?

CREDITS
Director: Krista Newey
Performers, Videographers: Maïka Giasson, Sydney McManus, Vicki Sue Machin, Kalene Jeans, Nicholas Ruscica, Emily Spearing, Michael Baboolal, Laura Carella, Dezjuan Thomas, Jocelyn Mah, Krista Newey
Editor: Krista Newey
Sound Design: Krista Newey

CANADA, Emerging Category, World Premiere
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ARGENTINA, Emerging Category
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ARGENTINA, Emerging Category

Maria Eugenia López Romero
DURATION: 4:41

sabel spoke in Guaraní, almost never in Spanish. Textures, smells, tastes that remind her of her own intimacy ritual, travel and resonate at home today. She was my grandma, whom I never knew. In the impossibility of translating voices and movements, what resonances remain?

CREDITS
Director, Choreographer, Editor: Maria Eugenia López Romero
Performers, Voiceover: Margarita Romero, Maria Eugenia López Romero
Assistant Directors: Camera: Romina Garay, Valeria Suárez
Sound Recording: Julián Scófano

ARGENTINA, Emerging Category
UNITED STATES, Emerging Category, Canadian Premiere
HINGA (BREATHE)
UNITED STATES, Emerging Category, Canadian Premiere

Sammay Dizon
DURATION: 15:15

HINGA is a performance ritual film and time capsule honoring the sacred grief, life force, and resiliency of the Filipinx community in the Bay Area, specifically SOMA Pilipinas Cultural Heritage District during COVID-19. Directed by interdisciplinary artist and choreographer SAMMAY with the prayerful poetry of Amihan, this is a community ritual for healing, release, and dreaming for the future we are ushering in. HINGA is centered around the loss of a brave and beloved social justice warrior Amado Khaya (Amado meaning “beloved” and Khaya meaning “home”) whose legacy truly transcends the limitations of time, materiality, and geographical borders.

CREDITS
Director, Producer, Writer: Sammay Dizon
Performers: Amihan, Earl Alfred Paus, Lisa Suguitan Melnick, Malaya Redondiez, Nickel Rivera, SAMMAY, Solitaire M., Terrence Paschal
Director of Photography, Editor: Kat Gorospe Cole
Assistant Camera: Joshua Prado, Justin Kyle Dionisio
Graphic Designers: Baltazar J. Dasalla, Eduardo Daza Taylor IV
Production Assistant: Día Alvites, Matt Galang
Composer, Sound Designer: Joshua Icban

UNITED STATES, Emerging Category, Canadian Premiere

Accessibility

This event will be live-streamed via Vimeo. Films that include spoken words will have subtitles in English. The prerecorded artist talk will have closed captions.

Learn more about accessibility at F-O-R-M 2021 here.

Earlier Event: September 14
Off-the-Wall - Tuesday Screening
Later Event: September 15
Situating Artistic Practice and Navigating the Frame with Tanin Torabi