Room in a Crowd

“Sound was the only thing that could travel.” The four works in this screening employ poetry and polyvocality as strategies for engaging with highly specific, politically charged subject matter.

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Credits

  • Director-Screenwriter

    John Torres

  • With

    Aki Tala Torres

  • Philippines 2023. 42min

  • Courtesy of

    Los Otros

  • Languages

    Tagalog, English

    With English subtitles

Introduction

Rooted in Filipino realities – both concrete and cinematically reimagined – John Torres’ meticulous yet generous approach is a synthesis of the personal and the political. Assembling fragments of discordant images and murmuring voices, this inventive parable creates a present that appears alien and a future that feels familiar.

Hyun Jin Cho

Screening with

tempo

A meditative, delightfully hyper-real work documenting the last days of Mr. Yagi’s vegetable shop, encapsulating the temporality of the depopulated town he calls home.

Credits

  • Director

    Yu Araki

  • Japan 2023. 20min

  • Language

    Japanese

    With English subtitles

Introduction

+ All the Days of May

Over otherworldly 16mm images, we follow a mother’s haunting voice, recounting her day-to-day existence following the death of her daughter.

Credits

  • Director-Screenwriter

    Miryam Charles

  • Canada 2023. 7min

  • Language

    French, Haitian

    With English subtitles

Introduction

+ Wood for the Trees

Finding parallels between a multi-generational, queer housing project and the study of old-growth forests, the film testifies to the ecological importance of diversity and care.

Credits

  • Director

    Rob Crosse

  • Germany 2023. 13min

  • Language

    German, English

    With English subtitles

Introduction

Total running time 82min.

Content warning

Contains distressing scenes.

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