Fabrics of Time: Recollection
Point Ahto
Experimental Documentary | 20:15 min | 2023 | Digital, 8 mm
Surrounding a roll of the filmmaker's family photographs developed 20 years after its exposure in mainland China, Point Ahto meditates on the persistent trauma and its placement in Californian landscapes, calling for possible recollection and reconciliation across the straits through audiovisual diaries and letter writing.
Directed by: Kaiwen Ren
Kaiwen
Ren
Filmmaker
Kaiwen Ren 任凯闻 is an artist and filmmaker. His recent works focus on the synergized subjectivities of the human and audiovisual materiality, regarding collective anxiety and personal memories through 16mm/digital filmmaking, sound, and photography.
Kaiwen obtained his bachelor's degree in film studies at Monash University, Australia, and is currently an MFA student in the Film/Video program at California Institute of the Arts. He now lives in Guangzhou and Los Angeles.
Up to the sea, she weaves a dream
Animation | 8 min | 2021 | HD
In any war, there is always a soldier who has lost and the women who are waiting for him to return. The dreams these women weave carry them to the farthest seas. Knowing there is no return, they weave and weave to treat the wounds of war.
Directed by: Maryam Khalilzadeh
Maryam Khalilzadeh
Filmmaker
Maryam Khalilzadeh is an Iranian filmmaker and illustrator. She holds a BA in Graphic Design and an MA in Animation from the University of Art, Tehran, Iran. On six short films, she has worked as a director, screenwriter, animator, concept artist, layout artist, storyboard designer, and background designer. These films have been shown in different film festivals around the world, and have received awards. In each of her films, Maryam incorporates poetic concepts and stories with her unique and personal graphic style. She is currently studying in Re: Anima, an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Animation and Creative Arts taking place in Genk, Helsinki, and Lisbon.
Remembering Romeo
Animation Documentary | 18:40 min | 2017 | Mixed Format
An innovative, hybrid animated documentary about an Alaskan wolf who charmed a village and befriended the world.
Northern lights shine in a urban apartment's bedroom, transforming it into a magically illuminated habitat. Romeo, a seducing Alaskan wolf, is reanimated by August's lantern, a little boy with a vast imagination ...Remembering Romeo is an autobiographical visual tale celebrating interspecies friendship and commemorating a sacred animal's life and journey.
Directed by: Marjorie Lemay
Marjorie
Lemay
Filmmaker
Wildlife lover, painter, landscaping designer and filmmaker working and living in Montreal
Taming and/or exulting my inner wilderness one frame at the time since 2009 while studying Animation Film at Concordia University, Canada. Happily integrating my painting and drawing practice (developed since 1996) into the realm of the moving images, recklessly orchestrating light, movement and sound and freely exploring on-specific sites cinematographic projects.
MFA student in Film Production since September 2014 at Concordia University, Canada and recipient of the Mechtronix Graduate Fellowship for Innovative Excellence in Visual Arts, The Henry P. and Thomas R. Schreiner National Film Board of Canada Production/Research Grant in Documentary and The Grant Munro Graduate Scholarship for Film Production. I am exploring different cinematic approaches to celebrate nonhuman life forms. My crafted with love and dedication short audiovisual pieces are shown in art events and film festivals in Canada and abroad.
