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XINEMA [zin-em-a] is an artist-run experimental film series and lab founded and based on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations ("Vancouver", BC). They began operation in 2022 in VIFF Centre's 41-seat Studio Theatre, with a focus on BC-based and connected media artists, stringing emerging and established artists together into monthly thematic programs. Housed in the Norquay Park Fieldhouse, XINEMA now connects local and international artists through ongoing screenings, workshops, and related events in diverse spaces and regions.

Their priorities are to remain low-barrier and platform underrepresented artists and media forms, connecting cinemakers and cinephiles of various backgrounds, disciplines, and career levels. Submissions of films of any year or medium, and proposals for workshops and curatorial collaborations are accepted on an ongoing basis.

Fur Film Vol. 2: mirror mirror

Exhibition / 2026
February 21-22, 2026
XINEMA's Darkroom

Work by Taiwanese Collective ЯeaRflex taking place in XINEMA’s Darkroom.


“Mirror, mirror on the wall, what am I looking for in you?”


In this work, ЯeaRflex members, Tzuan Wu, Johan Chang, and Erica Sheu, each shot two rolls of film, and sent them to each other in their respective cities — Taipei, Paris, Los Angeles — to create double exposures. Fur film vol. 2: mirror mirror is a film diary made through direct exchange. The only physical encounters made are through the lights of different cities burnt into the emulsion.