Event Details
April 12, 2025
11:30 AM EDT
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5S 1J5
A Thousand Landscapes, A Thousand Bodies is a two-fold film program that explores the tension between the collective and the individual by looking at how landscapes and bodies interact with each other. Conceived as a diptych, these two programs bypass the difference of scale between the body and the landscape to take interest in the trajectories of contamination that puts these two entities in constant relation and negotiation.
In this first program, the landscape acts as both a witness and an active participant in the layering of memory, history, and time. It emerges as a repository for individual and collective stories. A Thousand Landscapes brings together works focused on terrains where narratives collide and unsettling experiences leave their imprint.
Co-presented with Images Festival, Plant In Focus and re:assemblage collective
Screenings:
Before Seriana
Country: Algeria, Canada
Director: Samy Benammar
Length: 19 mins
Synopsis: Unveiling the Aurès region of Algeria, this film contrasts rugged mountains with a realm imagined from colonial narratives. “Mom, you brought me back to our homeland. All I know about these harsh landscapes I learned from books written by the hand that burned these mountains. I try to undo the colonial myths engraved into my memory, but the hills escape my gaze. Do you think I, too, have become the white djinn spoken of by the legends surrounding our martyrs?”
Bloom
Country: Spain
Director: Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado
Length: 18 mins
Synopsis: The mythical Isla de San Borondón (St. Brendan’s Isle) appears and disappears. Throughout history it has been placed near the Canary Islands on maps. The legend of the island of San Borondón became so pervasive that expeditions were organized to discover and conquer it for three hundred years. After centuries of oblivion, it has finally been found.
Le Disque De Poussière
Country: France
Director: Charline Dally
Length: 18 mins
Synopsis: Charline Dally invites viewers to investigate meteorite particles to identify crater impacts, only to discover that by merely observing this miniscule landscape, we are erasing all the evidence it contains that could tell us its story
Radius Catastrophe
Country: Lebanon
Director: Jad Youssef
Length: 39 mins
Synopsis: A semi-fictional essay film, narrated from the perspective of an alien agent sent to earth to investigate the aftermath of a complex murder event.