Occasionally eccentric and always thought-provoking, Micro Cinema showcases new experimental films while sharing stories, ideas, and connections about Canadian identity and is one of the only permanent exhibition spaces for film and media in Western Canada. See film, video art, animations, and short documentaries, on media monitors throughout Arts Commons. Through a curatorial selection process, Micro Cinema programs up to 24 local and national media artists annually in exciting Micro Cinema exhibitions running three months in duration.
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Arts Commons invites media artists to submit their short films, animations, video art, media art, and short documentaries. Visit our Artist Opportunities page for more information.
Entropic Memory
Canada, 6 min, No Dialogue
Directed by Nicolas Brault
This photographic exploration of family photo albums ravaged by water evokes hazy and indistinct memories, poignant witnesses of a fragile past.
Corpus and the Wandering
Canada, 7 min, No Dialogue
Directed by Jo Roy
Produced by National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
One dancer, one body, one phone. In a time of collective alienation and technological mass control, one woman rediscovers her soul and reclaims her mind. A short experimental self-portrait composed of 100 video screens, this unique short transcends the walls of a fragmented grid system to uncover our shared humanity and place in the cosmos.
Baigal Nuur – Lake Baikal
Canada, 9 min, Buryat-Mongolian Language (English subtitles)
Directed by Alisi Telengut
The formation and history of Lake Baikal in Siberia are reimagined with hand-made animation, featuring the voice of a Buryat woman who can still recall some words in her endangered Buryat-Mongolian language.
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