Please join us on Tuesday, June 3 for an outdoor film screening and gathering at XINEMA’s new Fieldhouse in Norquay Park. As a painter applies pigment to a canvas, a filmmaker applies light and matter to a film strip. This program, hand-picked by Tetsuya Maruyama, features works produced at artist-run film labs scattered throughout the vast and diverse geopolitical territories of Brazil. Through the relation of physical sensation to the ecological and the cultural, film-skin is profaned as a tangible material that becomes ephemeral when passed through a projector. This group of works emerge from the personal interests of each artist without expecting anything in return.

We are excited to present experimental works on 16mm from Francisco B. Gusso, Moira Lacowicz, Helder Martinovsky, Tetsuya Maruyama, Maria Mion, João Reynaldo, Duo Strangloscope, Līgia M. Teixeira, and Ж. Filmmaker and guest curator Tetsuya Maruyama joins us in-person for a post-screening Q&A.