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Glitch 2015

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15 films · 3 reviews

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Ache In My Name

Review preview for Ache In My Name

Vivek creates a personal but outward looking picture of shifting power, raising questions about ownership of the self.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Musings on the pronunciation of personal names.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2011; Director: Vivek Shraya)

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Ashes

The surroundings of everyday life are shared with extreme intimacy.

(Country: Thailand; Year: 2012; Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

{Deliverance} Of A Serpent Daughter Possessed By An Alphabet Of Funeral Flowers

This is the tale of a serpent girl. No sooner is she born from the ocean depths than she is accosted by those who fear the power of living beings

(Country: US, UK; Year: 2013; Director: Giu-Giu Yang)

Deviance

Stimulating workplace reveries.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Aron Hart)

Fort Da

Freudian sea games.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Joshua Vettivelu)

Holy Mother

A portrait of motherhood filmed during the 2013 Navaratri festival in India.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Vivek Shraya)

I'm Not Your Inspiration: Maki Yamazaki

Review preview for I'm Not Your Inspiration: Maki Yamazaki

Maki's distinctive voice comes through clearly.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Musician and visual artist Maki Yamazaki discusses visible and invisible disabilities, barriers to access for disabled and trans artists, and the intersection of race, gender and ability.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Sandra Alland; Stars: Maki Yamazaki)

Full review See: Interview with Sandra Alland about I’m Not Your Inspiration: Maki Yamazaki

Juck

A exploration of freedom of expression, sexuality, having fun and expanding perspectives on femininity and gender.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2013; Director: Cajsa Godee, Emelie Enlund, Tarika Wahlbergc)

The Locations Of The M/othership

An experimental visual introduction to the idea of black women as fugitive archetypes of resistance, using sci-fi as a reference.

(Country: Germany, UK; Year: 2009; Director: Jamika Ajalon)

Mitraa

A young woman in 1940s India struggles with her peers' views of her sexuality.

(Country: India; Year: 2014; Director: Ravi Jadhav)

Sight

Review preview for Sight

Sight is urgent, immediate, a story spilled out before time can cut it off.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
The story of the filmmaker’s experience with temporary episodes of migraine related blindness and her brother’s blindness later in life.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Thirza Cuthand)

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Sins Invalid: An Unashamed Claim To Beauty

A documentary about a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralising artists of colour and queer and gender-variant artists.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Patty Berne; Stars: Nomy Lamm, Cara Page, Maria Palacios, ET Russian, Antoine Hunter, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha , seeley quest, Mat Fraser, Rodney Bell.)

Trying To Leave My Body

A song from M Lamar’s album that echoes the agonised journey of African peoples imprisoned in trans-Atlantic slave ships.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: M Lamar)

Vigil 5.4

A recording of Rebecca Belmore’s performance commemorating the the lives of missing and murdered aboriginal women who have disappeared from the streets of Vancouver.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: Paul Wong; Stars: Rebecca Belmore)

White Birch Blues

Sonic poetry.

(Country: Germany, UK; Year: 2014; Director: Jamika Ajalon)