Presented in collaboration with Gallery Gachet

These reflective works flow between fragments of memory across individual and collective landscapes, forming new frameworks for reconciling identity, embodiment, and place. Part one showcases four new works collectively entitled To Map Alongside Belonging. Over eight months, a cohort of local BIPOC artists drew from their individual experiences to consider the intersections of personal and communal, and respond to Gallery Gachet’s positionality within the Downtown Eastside. The films in this programme are conscious vessels that respond, manipulate, and contribute to an ever growing archive of intergenerational and diasporic stories. Curated by XINEMA, part two responds to the work of Gallery Gachet’s cohort, and features three experimental works by three international filmmakers. The films combine uniquely manipulated analogue, digital, and archival images into rites of remembering; codices for (re)discovering personal histories, identities, and sites of becoming.

Part one screening: Kaila Bhullar, Luis Andrés Serrano, Monica Cheema, and Ogheneofegor Obuwoma

Part two screening: Nada El-Omari, Martin Molina Gola, and Rhayne Vermette