Total Runtime: 42min 58sContent Warnings:<ul><li>A Crip Body of Water (pacing is vital for energy flows): Discussion of chronic illness, chronic fatigue, and flooding</li></ul> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/ef84b7d62980a4b50e465eb6a18e23d0.png" width="216" style="max-width: 100%;">Image Description: Black text reads, "AD)))" adjacent to a black rectangle that contains the white letters, "CC" within it. <a href="https://www.restfestfilmfestival.org/shorts-block-breath" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);">Click here to learn about each film in this program.</a>

Rest RitualThis video artwork was developed as part of the Revisioning Fitness research project which aimed to crip, queer, and thicken discourse around fitness. This short film examines how the filmmaker would re-envision fitness- as a dream space, a utopia. The footage was recorded during her research about collective rest at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, Hungary, recorded in the Szechenyi Thermal Baths. International Premiere &amp; International Online Premiere Artist Bio: Born in Vancouver in 1986, Salima Punjani is a multisensory artist whose mediums include social sculpture, vibrotactile, spatial sound, digital video, photography and relational aesthetics. Her artistic approach is rooted in trauma-informed care and disability justice. She uses multiple senses to expand the possibilities to welcome Disabled people into art spaces by creating artful experiences of empathy, intimacy, and connection. Her recent work explores themes such as softness and anti-urgency, collective grief, isolation and resocialization processes related to COVID-19, rest as resistance to systemic injustice as well as how medical data can be subverted into finding human connection rather than pathologies. She holds a B.A. in Communications and Political Science from Carleton University, a Graduate Diploma in Journalism from Concordia University and a Master’s in Social Work from McGill University with research focusing on the intersection of the arts and care work. @picturesalima <a href="https://www.salimapunjani.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.salimapunjani.com/</a>

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This short film examines how the filmmaker would re-envision fitness- as a dream space, a utopia. The footage was recorded during her research about collective rest at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest, Hungary, recorded in the Szechenyi Thermal Baths.

A Crip Body of Water (pacing is vital for energy flows)A journey through the water and energy management systems of Elan Valley in Wales, UK, poetically narrativised as a landscape for chronic fatigue. ﻿Artist Bio: Rowena Harris (they/them) is a queer, crip artist, researcher and educator based in London, UK. They engage time-based media through a variety of styles and techniques, including CG animation and archival footage. They often draw on their disabled and queer experience to pursue alternatives to ‘normative’ filmic paradigms, such as time, space, movement, narrative, and to explore and engage crip art praxis - coming to new ways of knowing the world through crip artistic doing. Operating primarily in contemporary art, their awards include the Elan Valley – MAC award (UK); DYCP Arts Council England; SPACE residency (UK); Rupert Residency (LT); Sainsbury’s scholarship The British School at Rome (IT). They have had recent solo exhibitions with Phoinix (SK); Las Palmas (PT); The Gallery Apart, (IT); Coleman Projects (UK). And group: Ormston House (IE); Trafó (HU); Culturegest, Fidelidade Art Porto (PT); MAC, Copperfield Gallery, Space In Between, Tenderpixel, The Bluecoat, Bloc Projects, Flat Time House, The White Cube, The Barbican, Karst (UK), Agnes Varis Centre, (NY, US); Fondazione Memmo, Artissima, Galleria D’Arte Contemporanea O.Licini, (IT). They are in the final stages of their PhD in Crip Art Praxis at Goldsmiths College, UK, where they also hold an MFA (2010), and a BA Fine Art from Falmouth University, UK (2008). @rowena_harris / rowenaharris.com More about the film: Spoken from the position of water in combined Welsh and English language with subtitling, the film takes inspiration from pacing practices for fatigue and radical habitation of space and time living with fatigue creates. Thinking with sick, crip and disabled bodies the film unfolds an alternative poetic and crip narrative for this watery landscape. International Premiere &amp; Online Premiere More about the film: Spoken from the position of water in combined Welsh and English language with subtitling, the film takes inspiration from pacing practices for fatigue and radical habitation of space and time living with fatigue creates. Thinking with sick, crip and disabled bodies the film unfolds an alternative poetic and crip narrative for this watery landscape.

Discussion of chronic illness, chronic fatigue, and flooding

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A Crip Body of Water (pacing is vital for energy flows) [AD] [OC]

A journey through the water and energy management systems of Elan Valley in Wales, UK, poetically narrativised as a landscape for chronic fatigue.

Pharma Infinity DanceIn this video artwork, Chanika Svetvilas threaded her collection of prescription bottles with galvanized wire to create the shape of a large infinity loop sculpture. Created with an iPhone 8, she dances through the aisles of a CVS pharmacy with her Infinity sculpture to reflect on side effects, the intersections of treatment, access, and stigma as well as their contradictions. As an interdisciplinary artist, Chanika plays with scale to magnify and make visible the relationship between medical conditions, BigPharma, access, side effects and care. Her work developed based on her personal experiences as someone who has a diagnosis of bipolar and as a way to understand and translate meaning through the lens of disability justice and mad pride. International Premiere Artist Bio: Chanika Svetvilas is an interdisciplinary artist who utilizes narrative and lived experience as a way to create safe spaces, to disrupt stereotypes and to reflect on contemporary issues as a cultural worker. Past projects include: collecting objects and stories that reflected an immigrant history from surrounding New York City communities for a commissioned window installation at the Tenement Museum; stationing a handbuilt mobile immigration booth on the streets of Brooklyn to survey the needs of English language learners with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund; and disseminating immigrant rights information with the youth program, Leadership Through the Arts for the Queens Museum. At The Ohio State University, she interviewed faculty, staff and students who self-identified with disability to speak about accessibility issues and the disability community on campus. Svetvilas is also the co-founder of ThaiLinks, a collective that was based in New York City dedicated to increasing awareness about Thai issues and the Thai American community and co-founder of the biennial Thai Takes film festival, the first Thai film festival in New York State.Additionally, she has presented her interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary installations at the annual College Art Association Conference, Society for Disability Studies Annual Conference, Pacific International Conference on Disability and Diversity and exhibited at the Denver International Airport, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, ABCNoRio, Brooklyn Public Library, Westbeth Gallery, Islip Art Museum, Asian Arts Initiative, Artworks, Plainsboro Library, 22 North Gallery, Gallery Aferro, and the Wexner Center for the Arts among other spaces and contexts. Her work is published in Studying Disability, Arts, and Culture, An Introduction by Petra Kuppers, Wordgathering, Rogue Agent, Hives, and Disability Studies Quarterly.Svetvilas was born in Buffalo, NY and raised in Elmira, NY in the Southern Tier of New York State. After previously living in Brooklyn, NY, Columbus, OH, and Plainsboro, NJ, she currently resides in Princeton Junction, NJ. Her studio is located at historic Art Station in Hightstown, NJ.

Pharma Infinity Dance [AD] [OC]

Chanika Svetvilas threaded her collection of prescription bottles with galvanized wire to create the shape of a large infinity loop sculpture. Created with an iPhone 8, she dances through the aisles of a CVS pharmacy with her Infinity sculpture to reflect on side effects, the intersections of treatment, access, and stigma as well as their contradictions. As an interdisciplinary artist, Chanika plays with scale to magnify and make visible the relationship between medical conditions, BigPharma, access, side effects and care. Her work developed based on her personal experiences as someone who has a diagnosis of bipolar and as a way to understand and translate meaning through the lens of disability justice and mad pride.

In this clip, Chanika Svetvilas introduces herself and her film, Pharma Infinity Dance.

Meet Chanika Svetvilas: Filmmaker of "Pharma Infinity Dance" [AD] [OC]

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