Experimental Program One
6:30 PM - NOV 18th
Trinity Square Video
Exhibit Runs Nov. 18th - Nov. 21st
401 Richmond St W. Suite 121 Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
Total running time: 00:49:00
Followed by audience Q & A.
Hosted by Founder, Artistic and Executive Director
*Premiere Status*
World Premiere (WP), North American Premiere (NAP), Canadian Premiere (CP), Ontario Premiere (OP, Toronto Premiere (TP).
12th House
Directed by Ilona Laboy
12th House follows a woman through a surreal psychological landscape where reality becomes increasingly elusive and identity begins to dissolve. Through dreamlike imagery and poetic inner monologue, the film explores grief, self-destruction, and rebirth—a descent into the subconscious and the fractured selves we confront in the process of transformation.
(WP, 2025, Experimental, 00:13:02, United States)
Charasgasse 8
Directed by Marie Zahir
Filmmaker Marie Zahir retraces the traces of a past shaped by her father’s suicide. Through the grainy images of a Super 8 camera, she explores memory, absence, and the subconscious, revisiting a place that feels both unfamiliar and unchanged.
(CP, 2025, Experimental, 00:08:34, Germany)
Le Cauchemar
Directed by Lou Cottu
India, aged 20, is an ordinary-looking young woman who suffers from hoarding disorder and lives alone in her flat. Before going out, she brushes her teeth repeatedly whilst recalling a nightmare that haunts her.
(CP, 2025, Experimental, 00:07:16, France)
À Propos d’Annie
(How About Annie)
Directed by Barbara (Deuxième Balcon) Pierron
Angel is consoling her friend Annie for her heartbreak. While embracing her, they discover a tiny door and open it. Thus began a miniature adventure to the discovery of her friend’s vulnerability et diffferents way to help her.
(NAP, 2026, Experimental, 00:09:21, France)
Cat in an empty apartment
Directed by Magdalena Kula
The FABRIK Art Group project is an interpretation of Wisława Szymborska's poem, "A Cat in an Empty House."
Inspired by a restored old house in Chabanais, four artists placed a cat, a key character, inside it. Guided by their own emotions and experiences, they tell a short story.
(2025, 00:08:55, France)
Experimental Program Two
8:00 PM - NOV 18th
Total running time: 00:38:00
Followed by audience Q & A.
離家出走 (FUGUE)
Directed by Xin Yuan Sheng
When objects lose utility, memories begin to wander.
The modern metropolis is a metabolism of rapid obsolescence. FUGUE documents the raw, unscripted residue shed across Taipei’s alleyways. By detaching sound from image, the film records forgotten objects not as urban waste, but as silent witnesses to time, decay, and displaced memory.
(CP, 2026, 00:04:32, Taiwan)
Disappearance of Time
Directed by Andrea Hackl
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF TIME is a testament to the cyclical dance of life – of disappearance and becoming. Death giving way to birth, life and death intertwined.
The film speaks of the quiet resilience of the earth and our role as stewards of her future; the threads of her history woven into our very being and our story profoundly connected with her. Each grain of dust, each drop of water, telling a story of loss and rebirth, echoing the human experience.
Landscapes that once seemed eternal, fading, disappearing, with ever increasing speed, due to climate change and human impact. Glaciers melting. Their presence witness to an ancient time’s passage
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF TIME is an invitation to embrace our place within the timeless dance of life, echoing the truth that in every ending lies the promise of a new beginning.
Ultimately, it is a meditation on hope and that which survives beyond what we call death.
(NAP, 2025, 00:10:30, Netherlands)
Be Careful With Hope
Directed by Edie Steiner
BE CAREFUL WITH HOPE is a poetry film based on Carol Barbour’s poem “Be Careful with Hope”, from her collection, “Infrangible”. The poem in the film is voiced by the author, who was inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poem “‘Hope’ is the Thing with Feathers.” A micro drama where the camera follows a woman moving through an urban nature site, she seems to be mourning a loss and is seeking to find hope again. Settling on a bench with a wide view of the surrounding landscape, she opens a book that reveals magical lights emanating from the text and into the landscape, suggesting new possible worlds for the reader.
(WP, 2026, 00:02:37, Canada)
Artemis Jampanoï
Directed by Ornella Pacchioni
Two women. Mylène in Paris, Artemis in Athens. They eat as they tell us their stories. Carried by this borderless conversation, archive images appear. Evoking their exile, their return, never feeling home, but hoping, always.
Artemis Jampanoï was made with the simplest production, rooting in the daily to thread links infinitely.
It asks : is it more important to be looking at women or to look at what they see ?
(CP, 2025, 00:20:00, France)
Experimental Program Three
9:00 PM - NOV 18th
Total running time: 00:60:00
Followed by audience Q & A.
Le Livre
Directed by Elena Kassil
A woman comes to a casting. As she speaks about herself, she lives through several lives — each with its own love, its own man, its own truth. The director can't tell which one is the real her. In the end, a book falls from her bag: Anna Karenina. What was real, and what was fiction?
(WP, 2026, Experimental Drama, 00:15:00, France / Kazakhstan)
To Die Into A Bird
Directed by Anna Kushnerova
To Die into A Bird is a Fairy tale, it is a crossing into the worlds beyond human lineages, it is a visual hybrid of dance, sound, song, sculpture and spoken word.
(CP, 2025, Experimental, 00:21:00, United Kingdom)