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
Through animated retellings of memories with her late grandfathers, Xingyu Gu wades through complex feelings of grief. As she comes back into the present day, her grandmother's mourning allows her to make peace with the complicated relationships in her family. -jc
Community Partner — Sound of Dragon Festival
- Year2022
- Runtime7 minutes
- CountryUSA
- PremiereCanadian Premiere
- DirectorVicky Xingyu Gu
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
Through animated retellings of memories with her late grandfathers, Xingyu Gu wades through complex feelings of grief. As she comes back into the present day, her grandmother's mourning allows her to make peace with the complicated relationships in her family. -jc
Community Partner — Sound of Dragon Festival
- Year2022
- Runtime7 minutes
- CountryUSA
- PremiereCanadian Premiere
- DirectorVicky Xingyu Gu