Photo by Inger Whist
23th FEMALE EYE FILM FESTIVAL, "Always Honest, Not Always Pretty"
RESILIENCE!
FeFF Photo Exhibit & Experimental Films
Opening Tuesday, Oct. 14th, 6PM-11PM
an audience Q & A with artists
Photo Exhibit runs until Saturday Oct. 18th, 2025
at The Women's Art Association of Canada
23 Prince Arthur Ave, Toronto, ON
How do female, lens-based artists express Resilience as a source of creative inspiration in these turbulent times?
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FeFF Featured Photographers
Corinne Duchesne, Darya Gualtieri, Elaine Whittaker, Erin Youngman, Imogen Whist, Jacqui Gajewski, Jana Abrams, Lin Duperron, Martha Davis, Negar Pooya, Nina Silver, Ronni Rosenberg, Sabrina Leeder, Surya Badalera, Tara Arnst, Inger Whist and Elaine Brodie. Curation by Inger Whist and Elaine Brodie
This curated group exhibition based on the theme of Resilience is the VIP Opening Night Reception of the 23rd Female Eye Film Festival (FeFF) on October 14th, 6PM -11PM.
A moderated Artist Talk on August 14th.
FEFF SCRIPT READINGS will take place daily in the gallery, Oct 15 to17th, 10AM-4PM. FeFF's Script Reading Series is a creative incubator for writers with completed features and pilots that are ready to be kicked up to the next level. It’s an intensely creative, collaborative, and career-enhancing experience. This program centres on public readings where screenwriters receive feedback from industry experts and their peers along with fellow writers. FREE and open to the public.
7:15PM
Experimental Film Program
Total running time: 00:53:36
Followed by audience Q & A.
Trace on My Body
Directed by Yue Hua
A film about self-acceptance, and a conversation with self. In spring 2023, a physical illness forced me to re-examine my relationship with my body. Scars, spots, skin, hair, and my unflattering voice, everything
belongs to my body. Shot on 16mm film and scanned digitally.
(2024, Animation Experimental, 00:03:30, United States of America)
17H10
Directed by Marie Julliard
Introspective, experimental film directed by Marie
Julliard. A short film filled with gentleness and poetry in the form of superimposed shots translating the multiplicity of her sensibilities and existential questions.
(2024, Experimental, 00:06:26, France)
Pomona
Directed by Julia Dufek
Pomona, a cautious but curious woman, discovers towering Greek statues of Mars; the god of war. Her initial awe turns to playful subversion, but when her increasingly bold acrobatics take an unexpected turn,
Pomona must confront what these ancient symbols truly mean to her identity and future.
(2024, Animation, 00:05:00, Germany)
Lavinia
Directed by Sarah Dutton
Inspired by a character from Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronichus”. Despite undergoing a huge transformation within the play, Sarah felt that there was a key moment in Lavinia’s character arc that was not featured in the text. Determined to depict this missing story beat, Sarah settled on a movement based short film.
(2024, Experimental, 00:03:45, United Kingdom, England)
Childish
Directed by Emily Munro
An archival exploration of childhood choreography. How does the child through time resist oppression, violence and control? The childish imagination breaks out in flights of fantasy, both brief and absorbing. Energy is directed and contained. I'm live as a battery. Who am I to you?
(2024, Experimental Documentary, 00:15:00, United Kingdom, Scotland)
9:30PM
INTERMISSION
Experimental Film Program
Followed by audience Q & A.
exits / entrances
Directed by Yen Lim
I live to leave. I leave to live. Every door is an
opportunity or a risk. Are they just symbols of transition, curiosity, and the constant negotiation between leaving and staying? What lies behind? Why do we constantly seek for more? Of stepping into others' safe spaces and leaving something behind, of human connection and freedom across linguistic barriers and unfamiliar territories. On
embracing the in-between, on questioning the shift in physical and lyrical perspectives, while also making mistakes along the process while trusting every move made. A confrontation with both cultural unfamiliarity and personal introspection. An unplanned exploration, a concept of "how not to make a film" produced as part of Apichatpong Creators' Lab 2023 and shot in Yucatán, Mexico.
(2024, Documentary Experimental, 00:11:22, Singapore).
In Stock vel vitae
Directed by Agnès Roux
Between land, sea and sky, I follow the water, an offering in my hands... In this psycho-geographical movement at the border of the natural world and that of men, I seek to experience, to metaphorically resonate with this adage from the Middle Ages, between threat and protection. In this performed film, I
question the significant function of my plastic elements* in this experience of reality. Between the theatrical instinct of the imagination and the animal instinct of adaptation, I strive to find a fair balance between the authentic character of my performance and the
simulacrum of my dramaturgical writing. The sound work is based on this same postulate but it also represents the intangible dimension of this experience that the video tool cannot capture. The film was entirely produced in iphonography (images and sound recording) to respond to “on the spot” work oscillating between sensitive perception and the search for plausibility that the optimized miniaturization of the
camera/sound object of smartphones can offer.
(2025, Experimental, 00:13:20, Monaco)
LUVOS migrations (Cut 25)
Directed by Editta Braun
The experimental shortfilm LUVOS migrations tells of creatures that wander through a world dominated by humans. It seems to remain open whether there is room for such fragile creatures in these landscapes devastated by human civilisation.
Vision of the future or images from a parallel universe?
In breathtaking natural scenes, automated industrial landscapes and
deserted ruins, a journey through time and living spaces unfolds.
(2025, Experimental, 00:13:39, Austria)
Kraak; op een broze vensterbank, een vogel of de vanzelfsprekendheid
Directed by Petra van der Schoot
A figure wearing a diving helmet and swimming fins arrives at a building and gets drawn in both unwillingly willingly. Some passersby, sensing something, return to the place and sneak in through the back door. Inside they are taken by a performance initiated by this strange figure. A both humorous and serious film in which sound and space are the main characters.
(2024, Experimental, Fiction , 00:38:38, Netherlands).
Photo Exhibit curated by Inger Whist and Elaine Brodie
Film Program curated by Leslie-Ann Coles
