RestFest Film Festival 2024

Shorts Block: Fire / Burn [AD] [CC]/[OC]

Expired August 23, 2024 6:59 AM
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Total Runtime: 37min 19s

Content Warnings:

  • Resistance Meditation: Discussion of living on crip time
  • Invisible World: Live audio documentation of medical gaslighting & medical trauma.
  • Long-Covid and the Culture of Disbelief: Discussion of the following: chronic illness, Long-COVID, ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis), and medical gaslighting.


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Resistance Meditation

A meditation on crip time as resistance on Super 8 film by a chronically ill filmmaker. The Super 8 film was non-toxically eco-processed with plant materials by hand.


World Premiere


Artist Bio: Sara Wylie (she/they) is a chronically ill filmmaker, producer and researcher from the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (aka Vancouver, BC).

Sara graduated with distinction from Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryerson) University’s Documentary Media MFA Program in 2019, and is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and SSHRC. Sara's films have screened at Vancouver International Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, RIDM Documentary Festival, the Canadian Labour International Film Festival, Workers Unite Film Festival and more. @sara_wylie

  • Runtime
    4 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    Canada
  • Premiere
    World Premiere
  • Genre
    Documentary Short Film, Experimental
  • Subtitle Language
    English
  • Content Warning
    Discussion of living on crip time
  • Social Media
  • Director
    Sara Wylie
  • Screenwriter
    Sara Wylie
  • Producer
    Sara Wylie
  • Cast
    Sara Wylie
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