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

Que Pendejada Es La Vida is a non-narrative animation created using scanned artwork and analogue animation techniques. The title, which roughly translates to ''life is bullshit'' speaks to the spirit of the film which I made in an attempt to convey the dissociative state brought on by my experiences with social anxiety, depression, and OCD in a big and busy city like Toronto. The soundscape for this piece was partly created using sounds of the city, recorded on my cell-phone, during these moments of dissociation and panic.

Isa P. G - Que Pendejada Es La Vida

The physical boundaries humans impose between territories are not recognized by other animal or plant species. The stop-motion animation “Bower” features the plant species at risk that grow on Canadian soil but also live beyond borders. In the five-minute animation the central plant-character, a threatened aquatic plant called Bolander’s Quillwort, desperately attempts to build a “bower” (derived from the Middle English word “bour” meaning “dwelling”) using fellow plant species at risk. Its frantic efforts mirror humanity’s drive to develop technologies and organizational systems that attempt to restore and protect what we are on the verge of destroying: the natural world – our bower.

Jennifer Wanner - Bower

Fragmented stories relate experiences of Colombian immigrants at the border. An exploration of the epistemic and physical violence of a border, relationships to place, memory and technology.

Bryan Angarita - Border

A visual companion to the accompanying composition, the video is inspired by the music - Composition: the lovely dirt of public spaces by Emilie Cecilia LeBel

Justine Smith - composition: the lovely dirt of public spaces

Drones Don't Fight is part of an online speculative fiction that is presented over several websites. This piece speaks about the need to remember that we are not mechanical machines. Drones Don't Fight speaks about human perseverance, failure, sickness, and strength and the experience of living against all odds in a world that perpetuates cruelty, war, famine and poverty.

Jet Coghlan - Drones Don’t Fight

BOOKANIMA, a compound word of ‘Book’ and ‘Anima’, draws from the experimentation of chronophotography animation, paying homage to Edward Muybridge and Entienne Jules-Marey.

Shon Kim - BOOKANIMA: Martial Arts

An exhausted delivery rider sprawls on the bench of a roadside park and drifts off. In his dream, workers gather together in a ‘Shanzhai’ (imitation goods) park, where they stop to pose as statues. This all-star line up of contemporary youth-labourers in a dream setting explores China’s contemporary urban life: infused with technology and capital, new kinds of markets emerge, as well as new kinds of exploitation, anxieties, and dreams.

Yuan Zheng - Dream Delivery

A family displaced by greed searches for a new home in a foreign place. As they explore they discover pieces of themselves; old and new. "Shea" celebrates what has always remained in Black/African peoples, an innate sense of home, luxury and interconnectedness.

Effy Adar and NASRA Adem - Shea, by NASRA

Quinn is on a mission to deal with loneliness and isolation and decides to visit the local sanatorium. The ultimate goal is to find companionship but the way Quinn does it is full of surprises. As the cart gets filled with items, Quinn’s belly starts growing, suggesting a pregnancy, sympathetic or otherwise. The consummation of this quest will take your breath away.

Diana Thorneycroft - Black Forest Sanatorium

Cartography explores notions of the body as a physical manifestation of the psychological. Each part of the body has a different story to tell. Whether it is a scar, birthmark, or otherwise - visible or invisible - these parts are signifiers of cultural, familial, and personal histories. Through mapping the physical body, MacNeil and Zhang are able to unravel contexts beyond what lies skin-deep.This work was originally displayed as two separate videos on two projectors across the room from each other. The videos looped indefinitely, with no intentional synchronization. The video shown gives an example of how they may have synchronized at one point in the installation.

K. MacNeil and Zhang Yang - Cartography

In the 19th century, the unidentified body of a young woman was recovered from the Seine. Over a century later, Asmund Laerdal modeled the face of the standardized training manikin for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after the death mask and made it his trademark. The murder of a 24-year-old Russian travel blogger, influencer, and budding doctor shocks the media in July 2019. Ida Kammerloch assembles pictorial and linguistic fragments of both narratives in a collage-like manner, questioning the patriarchal and Western narratives of our society.

Ida Kammerloch - Resusci Anne

Part of an ongoing deep dive into reality stardom and digital death, 'all i have pt iii' explores the online archetypes and politics of light skin black women in the media by focusing on four case studies: Disney star turned adult actress and producer Zendaya, widely loved reality star and former Bachelorette Tayshia Adams, conservative political commentator Candace Owens, and former actress turned Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle.The four women's images grind and faze into each other in an illusion of cohesion as the automated voice considers how far they must be willing to go to be desired, accepted, protected, or respected.

Gabriella Mykal - all i have pt iii

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