Is it home that creates memory, or is it one's memory that creates home? In this assemblage of films, 10 directors experiment with notions of both. Some traverse the emotional geographies of memory—across the Black Atlantic, over the prairie grasslands and into the border of Ukraine—while others delve into memory as a home base, delightfully employing stop-motion animation and visual hybridity to (re)locate childhoods, relationships and death in lives both lived and lost.
Audience Partner
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
"What is home?" "What scares you?" "What do you want out of life?" As Vika struggles to stay in communication with her family in Ukraine's war zone, her friends (fellow twenty-something immigrants from Eastern Europe) hang out, skateboard, smoke and swap opinions on the uncertainty of their future in Canada. -TA
- Year2023
- Runtime20 minutes
- CountryCANADA
- DirectorRobert Mentov, Karl Kai
Is it home that creates memory, or is it one's memory that creates home? In this assemblage of films, 10 directors experiment with notions of both. Some traverse the emotional geographies of memory—across the Black Atlantic, over the prairie grasslands and into the border of Ukraine—while others delve into memory as a home base, delightfully employing stop-motion animation and visual hybridity to (re)locate childhoods, relationships and death in lives both lived and lost.
Audience Partner
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
"What is home?" "What scares you?" "What do you want out of life?" As Vika struggles to stay in communication with her family in Ukraine's war zone, her friends (fellow twenty-something immigrants from Eastern Europe) hang out, skateboard, smoke and swap opinions on the uncertainty of their future in Canada. -TA
- Year2023
- Runtime20 minutes
- CountryCANADA
- DirectorRobert Mentov, Karl Kai