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Images Festival, Toronto
May 20 – June 2, 2021
David Howlett, Federica Foglia, Yihao Zheng, Udval Altangerel, Blanca Martín Secades with Pedro Muñoz-Calero Franco, Zuhaitz Silva García, and Jaime Sánchez Camacho, Noncedo Khumalo
Catalogue design by Tetyana Herych
Presented as part of VUCAVU Expanded. View video introductions here.
In this selection of student works, the idea of new futures through imaginative narratives and archival ruminations are explored. Dabbling in science-fiction and dream-states but remaining grounded in the playful possibilities of the “now”, these films ask us to consider what we know about ourselves and to renegotiate what that means.
Built as a fictional chronology, the program’s opening introduces us to a world reflected through expansive interpretations of the past and futures beyond us. Here, we are confronted with the idea of home and the necessary acts of moving, changing, and dreaming that accompany. The place that was and is ever-changing.
Ensuing, from here presents notions of (im)migration—building it up through a lens of futurity—and questions how we process, commit to, and abandon feelings of personal and national identity. In an effort to find this idea of a home on the Earth we know, within the post-Anthropocene, or beyond the confounds of time and space we must also ask what do we sacrifice and who do we become in order to achieve home, security, and love?
Still image from Expatriate Dreamer, directed by Zheng Yihao, United States , 2020.
