Embodied Extensions: A Relaxed Screening Of Extended Shorts

Doors at 6:30pm
Film Programme starts at 7pm
Artist Q&A 8pm

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Using multiple approaches to embodied storytelling, from animation to poetry to theatrical dance breaks, these films address varied questions of access (to resources, to safety, to community) and how they intersect and influence each filmmaker's approach to moving through the world on a daily basis.

Making space to highlight stories that are explored over longer durations, we invite audiences to bring awareness to their body through a short facilitated sensory exploration prior to the start of the screening. Encouraging viewers to come and go throughout the space during the screening, we want to challenge the rigid structure traditional cinemas often impose on our bodies. To support accessing this embodied ease there will be an installation present throughout the space that audiences can interact with.

This screening will have ASL interpretation. The house lights will remain on throughout the duration of the screening. Masks are strongly recommended at this event, as a form of practicing collective community care.

Films will be available to view online 24 hours following the screening via purchasing a digital festival pass at F-O-R-M.

FILM INFORMATION
FANTASMA NEON
Duration: 20:00
A delivery man dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film.

Director, Writer: Leonardo Martinelli
Producer: Ayssa Yamaguti Norek, Leonardo Martinelli, Rafael Teixeira
Starring: Dennis Pinheiro, Silvero Pereira
Cinematographer: Felipe Quintelas
Editor: Lobo Mauro
Music: Ayssa Yamaguti Norek, Carol Maia, José Miguel Brasil, Leonardo Martinelli
Choreographer: Soraya Bastos

MY BODY IS A POEM/THE WORLD MAKES WITH ME
Duration: 27:48
A personal documentary about belonging, familial love and Canadian colonial histories by director and poet Brandon Wint.

Director: Brandon Wint
Cinematographer: Caelin Moore
Musical Director, Producer, Mixer: Brian Raine
Motion Design, Animation, Editor: Noah Levefre

Special Thanks: Titilope Sonuga, Matthew James Weigel, Edmonton Heritage Council

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
ROCK GARDEN
By Sarah Wong and Ileanna Cheladyn

Rock Garden features hand-crafted cushions inspired by the movements of shapeshifting within the life cycle of rocks. The work seeks to honour rocks as teachers for surrendering to transformation and to bring light to the relationship between resistance, rest and renewal. Through the integration of choreography and textile design, our rock garden aims to be a soft place to land that reminds audience members to slow down, release, and tend to their embodied needs.
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