Photophobia 2021 - Program 1 Thursday, August 5, 2021, 8pm Presented by The Art Gallery of HamiltonBatoul Faour and Alex Sassine (Beirut and Toronto) –&nbsp;When It Reigns, It Pours,&nbsp;2020 (7:04)Christina Hajjar (Winnipeg) –&nbsp;Don’t Forget the Water,&nbsp;2021 (4:41)Dallas Fellini (Toronto) –&nbsp;Strada Statale&nbsp;696, 2020 (6:41)2Ro Media with Janet Marie Rogers and Jackson Twobears (Six Nations of the Grand River) –&nbsp;The Spirit of Rage,&nbsp;2020 (7:18)Jinyoung Kim (Montreal) –&nbsp;Survival 101: In Case of Complete Disappearance,&nbsp;2020 (14:43)KanikaXx (Canada) –&nbsp;Welcome to the Alter-Ego Citadel,&nbsp;2020 (14:22)Laura Magnusson (Montreal) –&nbsp;Blue,&nbsp;2019 (12:00)Lupita Guerrero (Kitchener) –&nbsp;Woven,&nbsp;2020 (3:18)Sadaf Khajeh and Dorsa Asadi (Toronto) –&nbsp;Distance,&nbsp;2020 (8:57)Sandy McLennan (Port Sydney) –&nbsp;Moving, Parts One and Two,&nbsp;2021 (7:38)Shahrzad Amin (Oakville and Khaju) –&nbsp;Bridge Obscura: Connecting Nations through Film, Art &amp; Culture,&nbsp;2020 (11:19)Valentin Brown (Hamilton and Toronto) –&nbsp;Relax with Sample 01,&nbsp;2020 (14:40)

Photophobia 2021 - Program 1

Thursday Introduction

While thinking about moving, McLennan shot the same view of his house over different seasons using Double 8 mm film. The many emotions encountered while thinking about moving are represented by different film stocks and processing each strip of film with a different recipe or method.

Sandy McLennan - Moving, Parts One and Two

Shot during the pandemic “Distance” captures what it feels like to have an attachment to someone whose presence takes place in another space as well as a different time. Through unscripted passive daily dialogues, “Distance”&nbsp;glances at our perception of reality and existence, especially during times when we feel most isolated and unreachable.

Sadaf Khajeh and Dorsa Asadi - Distance

A phone conversation sets the diasporic table as a disembodied figure prepares Qahwah Arabi / Arabic Coffee. Here, the contradictions inherent in Google Translate’s instant camera feature are made visible through glitched mistranslations. Using these flaws as a prompt, the communication between a mother and a daughter considers ambiguity as a source of embodied knowledge.

Christina Hajjar - Don't Forget the Water

Woven depicts the interconnected nature of tender, yet fragile, mother-daughter relationships and references gendered roles within the home that are built upon generations of cultural femininity. Through the act of braiding, sentiments of both childhood familiarity and adulthood discomfort arise as the duo recall distant memories and lineage that fosters the exploration of the daughter's identity.

Lupita Guerrero - Woven

Accessibility features such as closed captioning and audio description animate the regulated body known as Sample 01, rather than translate it for an imagined disabled body that is often assumed to be white, cis, sane, and heteronormative. This work envisions possibilities that lie beyond compliance, rejecting neoliberal checklists and minimum diversity standards. Image Description: A hand wearing a blue medical glove with fingernails and knuckles that have been drawn on the glove with Sharpie. There are two strings of closed captions running at the top: one says, in capital letters enclosed in square brackets, "Your name is Sample 0000001." The other caption appears just below the first in hand-written style text that says "you were hot red tail lights."&nbsp;

Valentin Brown - Relax with Sample 01

On August 4th, Beirut was shook by an explosion that ravaged the heart of the city. This film deals with notions of collective trauma, and narratives of resilience that are often branded around these kinds of tragedies, and how we’re made to go on despite them.&nbsp;

Batoul Faour and Alex Sassine - When It Reigns, It Pours

The Spirit of Rage is a humorous romp through the ridiculousness of white supremacy using poetry, performance art and sound effects.&nbsp;

2Ro Media with Janet Marie Rogers and Jackson Twobears - The Spirit of Rage

Welcome to the Alter-Ego Citadel is an experimental video that explores concepts of safety and security in digital spaces. Pointing to themes surrounding the surveillance state, gender identity, and safe spaces, the work acts as a mirror held to society: as viewers we are asked to consider our own relationship to digital tools, which have the ability to bring us together or tear us apart.

KanikaXx - Welcome to the Alter-Ego Citadel

Through the lenses of art practice, sensory ethnographic filmmaking, and architectural design, this project examines the power and effectiveness of a short film to express ideas about connectivity between Iranian culture and the rest of the world. The video highlights a social openness and necessity for global international connectivity by applying the figure of the Khaju and Allahverdi Khan bridges in Iran, and their acoustic ecologies, as a metaphor for overcoming cultural distances.

Shahrzad Amin - Bridge Obscura: Connecting Nations through Film, Art & Culture

Strada Statale 696&nbsp;explores trans presence in public hypermasculine spaces, using the Italian piazza (public square) as a point of departure. Hyper-location-specific sound, imagery, and language combine to pose questions about the past trans occupants of the digitally inhabited space.

Dallas Fellini - Strada Statale 696

Alone on an ocean “tundra,” wearing a protective clamshell-like parka and winter boots, a woman arduously moves, exhales, and burrows through the afterlife of sexual violence. The medium of water, with its destructive potential and capacity to heal, in addition to the weight of an air tank, with its promise of survival and threat of impending emptiness, hold the fullness of traumatic experience. This autobiographical work is the impact statement that the director was not permitted to give before the law.

Laura Magnusson - Blue

The video documents a conversation between a family of three, in which they plan for their theoretical survival in case of an apocalypse. The conversation evolves around an imaginary situation where they were the only human survivors of the situation and later, encountering an unknown being.

Jinyoung Kim - Survival 101: In Case of Complete Disappearance

Photophobia 2021 - Program 2 Friday, August 6, 2021, 8pm Presented by Hamilton Artist's Inc.Isa P. G (Toronto) –&nbsp;Que Pendejada Es La Vida, 2018 (3:02)Jennifer Wanner (Calgary) –&nbsp;Bower, 2020 (4:58)Bryan Angarita (Toronto) –&nbsp;Border, 2021 (5:05)Justine Smith (Hamilton) –&nbsp;composition: the lovely dirt of public spaces, 2020 (6:21)Jet Coghlan (Hamilton) –&nbsp;Drones Don’t Fight, 2021 (1:47)Shon Kim (Seoul) –&nbsp;BOOKANIMA: Martial Arts, 2019 (10:52)Yuan Zheng (Los Angeles) –&nbsp;Dream Delivery, 2018 (9:22)Effy Adar and NASRA Adem (Edmonton) –&nbsp;Shea, by NASRA, 2020 (2:40)Diana Thorneycroft (Winnipeg) –&nbsp;Black Forest Sanatorium, 2020 (7:20)K. MacNeil and Zhang Yang (St. Catherines) –&nbsp;Cartography, 2018 (14:17)Ida Kammerloch (Vienna) –&nbsp;Resusci Anne, 2020 (7:38)Gabriella Mykal (Southlake) –&nbsp;all i have pt iii,&nbsp;2021 (1:47)

Photophobia 2021 - Program 2

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