Unit/Pitt Society For Art And Critical Awareness

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XINEMA and UNIT/PITT are proud to present Light grows wild, a screening of experimental films presented in conjunction with the to carve without cutting exhibition, curated by Asia Jong. This collection of works by Emma Roufs, Bram Ruiter, Daniel Robin, Chris Chong Chan Fui, Carolee Schneemann, Tiziana La Melia, Maryse Larivière, Carolynne Hew, and Sarah Wood moves through the complexities of relation where light is both gentle and sharp—illuminating what is hidden, obscuring what is clear—revealing the tensions between absence and presence. These artists explore dynamic forces in nature and emotion: light refracting through water, shadows cast on stone and flora, moments of tenderness and rupture. They provide glimpses into the ways love grows wild in the spaces where matter meets, collides, and transforms, and ultimately capture the restless interplay of energies that shape both the landscapes we inhabit and the intimacies we hold. Saturday, September 28, 1–2:30pm @ the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum (555 Columbia St.) The screening will be followed by a closing reception at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden from 2:30–4:00pm in the Hall of One Hundred Rivers.  Limited $15 (no one turned away for lack of funds) are available. Click <a href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/2497b90d-b2b6-4e58-9a7c-918c30590e89">here</a> to get your ticket. Please email <a href="mailto:info@unitpitt.ca">info@unitpitt.ca</a> if you need financial or physical accommodation. For accessibility notes please visit <a href="https://www.unitpitt.ca/about/">unitpitt.ca/about</a>. If you would like to attend only the free reception, please RSVP by emailing <a href="mailto:info@unitpitt.ca">info@unitpitt.ca</a>.<p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;max-width:100%">Admission to the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden is also free for the duration of the exhibition (August 31 - Sept 28) — <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/to-carve-without-cutting-tickets-999468967587?aff=ebdsoporgprofile">RSVP here for free admission.</a><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;max-width:100%"> <p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;max-width:100%">Screening:<p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;max-width:100%"> on breathing (Canada, 2017) Emma Roufs 3 min→ <a href="https://vimeo.com/232272716?autoplay=1&amp;muted=1&amp;contextual=viewer_home&amp;stream_id=Y2xpcHN8MzA4MDUyOXxpZDpkZXNjfFtd">Excerpt</a> A visual and sonic essay showcasing the light, wind, movement, breath, and the strength of the Earth.Distributed by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC). Here &amp; Elsewhere (Netherlands, 2023) Bram Ruiter 11 min→ <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nGjmpk-R52OtC42uZvXHOhhQ7a8K0iDQ/view?usp=sharing">Trailer</a> Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' poem Arte Poética, Here &amp; Elsewhere is a romantic film in which water serves as a guiding force for a journey with an unclear destination. Sun Coming and Casting a Shadow (USA, 2022)Daniel Robin7 min A film about time, memory, fear, and the challenges of holding onto joy. Let Me Start By Saying (Canada, 2001) Chris Chong Chan Fui 3 min A gay man has fallen in love with a woman; she has gone away, and the image of her face haunts him. Desperately, he tries to come up with a way to be close to her again. Distributed by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC). Carolee Schneemann, still from Plumb Line, 1972, 16mm film to HD video, 14.5 min. Copyright the Carolee Schneemann Foundation. Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. Plumb Line (USA, 1972) Carolee Schneemann14.5 min The dissolution of a relationship unravels through visual and aural equivalences. Schneemann splits and recomposes actions of the lovers in a streaming montage of disruptive permutations: 8 mm is printed as 16 mm, moving images freeze, frames recur and dissolve until the film bursts into flames, consuming its own substance. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI). Garden Gossip (Canada, 2017)Tiziana La Melia &amp; Maryse Lariviere 5.5 min A Letter from the future, "Garden Gossip" is a richly layered 16mm film that amplifies interspecies communication while echoing feminist ecological concerns, reminiscent of Joyce Wieland’s work. Through textural and performative explorations, the film reclaims the subversive potential of traditionally feminine spaces and practices. It reimagines gossip as an act of reclamation and resistance, embodied through poetry and natural motifs—scents, flowers, and bird whispers. Swell (Canada, 1998)Carolynne Hew 5 min Desire disorients and bodily swellings result. "A lovely concoction of hand-tinted and scratched film evoking a woman's flight from concrete to nature - spurred on by a kiss." - Gordon Bowness, Xtra! Distributed by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC). Manifesto for Love (UK, 2003)Sarah Wood 6 min Art form crosses art form and makes a new art form. Manifesto for Love is an inter-layered journey into the highs and lows of the romantic adventure: an experiment in shape, music, vision and words to find a new expression of love. Distributed by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC). Total program time: 55 min<p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;max-width:100%"> <p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;max-width:100%">------<p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;max-width:100%">ABOUT<p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5rem;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;width:100%;max-width:100%">XINEMA [zin-em-a] is an artist-run experimental film series founded and based on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, BC). They began operation 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. Their main priorities are to remain low-barrier, accepting free ongoing and unlimited submissions of any year or premiere status; prioritize underrepresented artists and media forms; and connect filmmakers and film-lovers of various backgrounds, disciplines and career levels.<div> </div>

Unit/Pitt Society For Art And Critical Awareness

Light grows wild: to carve without cutting Film Screening & Closing Reception

565 Columbia St #553

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