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Counter Flows

A Mirror of the Cosmos, Isabelle Carbonell, 2022

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29
June

16
July

Weaving spaces of transit, exchange and ritual, bodies of water conceal gestures of domination and fugitivity, while holding intergenerational memories. With a selection of works of non-fiction, fiction and artist films, this programme highlights personal filmmaking practices, exploring watery spaces where rituals of belonging and ancestry take place. Bodies and language merge in acts of blessing, purification, fugitivity and celebration, counterpointing modes of insurgent and resilient living with more reciprocal forms of togetherness.

These visionary fictions unearth histories of concealment and occupation, notably those of extractive erasure in Latin America and the Pacific, contrasting the overexposure of images with the erosion of political systems.

The thematic cycle Counter-Flows reflects on how we can move from these images and stories, towards more prosperous imaginations and futures.


Curated by Almudena Escobar López and Margarida Mendes

Almudena Escobar López


An independent curator, archivist, and researcher from Galicia, Spain, she is Assistant Professor on Film History, Film Preservation and Collection Management, at the School of Image Arts of the Toronto Metropolitan University. Her work focuses largely on coloniality and artistic practices that propose alternative ways of understanding territoriality. Almudena is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Visual and Cultural Studies program at the University of Rochester. As a guest curator, Almudena has curated and co-curated a number of film and video series which have been presented at Anthology Film Archives, Film Society of Lincoln Center, CineMigrante Argentina, Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá, UnionDocs, ICDOCS, Visual Studies Workshop, Cineteca Nacional de México, among others.

Margarida Mendes
Researcher, curator and educator, she explores the overlap between systems thinking, experimental film, sound practices and ecopedagogy. She creates transdisciplinary forums, exhibitions and experiential works where alternative modes of education and sensing practices may catalyse political imagination and restorative action. She has been long involved in anti-extraction activism and ecopedagogy, collaborating with marine NGOs, Universities and institutions of the art world. She directed several educational and research platforms and was the guest film curator at the 11th Liverpool Biennale.


Full programme

The Island of St. Matthews, Kevin Jerome Everson, 2013

Black Beach/Horse/Camp/The Dead/Forces, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, 2014

Altépetl, Colectivo los Ingrávidos, 2013

Aggregate States of Matters, Rosa Barba, 2019

Aequador, Laura Huertas Millán, 2012

Oriana, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, 2022

Deep Sleep, Basma al-Sharif, 2014

Tierras del Mar, Azucena Losada, 2019

Vers les colonies, Miryam Charles, 2016

American Hunger, Ephraim Asili, 2013

As If Sand Were Stone…, Ben Mendelsohn, 2019

Dengung Hyena, Taloi Havini, 2019

Europium, Lisa Rave, 2014

.TV, G. Anthony Svatek, 2017

Atlantique, Mati Diop, 2019

Sunflflower Siege Engine, Sky Hopinka, 2022

The Mississipi Multiverse, Isabelle Carbonell, 2020

Foreign in a Domestic Sense, Sofía Gallisá Muriente e Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, 2021

A Mirror of the Cosmos, Isabelle Carbonell, 2022

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Screenings

Tiger Bay

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1934
If…

,

1968
Masaje

,

1972
Arrebato

,

1979
Red and Blue

,

1967
Acto dos Feitos da Guiné

,

1979
Fragments

,

2016
Bigger Than Us

,

2021
Porto ,1975

,

2010
I Am Not Pilatus

,

2019
The Island of St. Matthews

,

2013
Black Beach/Horse/Camp/The Dead/Forces

,

2016
Oriana

,

2022
Wajib

,

2017
Video Summer

,

2006
Aequador

,

2012
Sound of the Street

,

2006
Deep Sleep

,

2014
Aggregate States of Matters

,

2019
Lands of the Sea

,

2019
Towards the Colonies

,

2016
The Witches

,

1990
High Cities of Bones

,

2017
As If Sand Were Stone…

,

2019
American Hunger

,

2013
Dengung Hyena

,

2020
.TV

,

2017
Europium

,

2014
Despiste

,

2019
O Meu Primeiro Apocalipse

,

2021
Triunfo de Helmut

,

2022
Reconstrução

,

2022
As Palavras e os Fios

,

1962
As Cidades e as Trocas

,

2014
Calling Cabral

,

2022
As Sombras e os Seus Nomes

,

2021
I Spit on Your Grave [excerpt]

,

1959
What About China?

,

2022
Atlantics

,

2019
Sunflower Siege Engine

,

2022
The Mississipi Multiverse

,

2020
The Piano

,

1993
Os Demónios de Alcácer Quibir

,

1976
A Mirror of the Cosmos

,

2022
Foreign in a Domestic Sense

,

2021
The End of the World

,

2019
Secrets & Lies

,

1996
Song Of The Sea

,

2014
Eyes Wide Shut [trailer]

,

1999
Cape Fear

,

1962
Sunfish

,

2011
The Living Also Cry

,

2012
Black Cloud

,

2014
2720

,

2023
The War Game

,

1962
The Girls

,

1968
Scrubbers

,

1982
Waterloo Bridge

,

1931
Night Games

,

1966
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

,

1989
Musik i mörker

,

1948
Um Adeus Português

,

1986
Like Twenty Impossibles

,

2003
Salt of This Sea

,

109
The Souvenir: Part II

,

2021
After the Night

,

2013
Fiesta Forever

,

2016
Sunday Afternoon

,

1965
A Arte e o Ofício de Ourives

,

1963
Dom Roberto

,

1962
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

,

1953
Out Loud

,

2022
The Mozart Brothers

,

1986
Paris 1900

,

1947
Girls in Uniform

,

1931
Vanille

,

2020
Maradona's Legs

,

2019
The Penguin's Flight

,

2018
My Extraordinary Summer with Tess

,

2019
Uma Vida Difícil

,

2023
Countryside by the Sea

,

2015
Acera, or the Witches' Dance

,

1972
The Love Life of the Octopus

,

1967
Five Minutes to Sea

,

2018
Jazz on a Summer’s Day

,

1959
Grease
The Tree

,

2018
This Sporting Life

,

1963
Frieda

,

1947
Altépetl

,

2013
A Sibila

,

Elso Roque

,

2023
Armazónia

,

2021
Europa Europa

,

Agnieszka Holland

,

1990
Loving Couples

,

1964
Labor of Love

,

2020
Milk of Amnesia

,

1992
Dr. Glas

,

1968
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

,

2001
Queen

,

2019
Amorosa

,

1986

Families

Tiger Bay

,

1934
If…

,

1968
Masaje

,

1972
Arrebato

,

1979
Red and Blue

,

1967
Acto dos Feitos da Guiné

,

1979
Fragments

,

2016
Bigger Than Us

,

2021
Porto ,1975

,

2010
I Am Not Pilatus

,

2019
The Island of St. Matthews

,

2013
Black Beach/Horse/Camp/The Dead/Forces

,

2016
Oriana

,

2022
Wajib

,

2017
Video Summer

,

2006
Aequador

,

2012
Sound of the Street

,

2006
Deep Sleep

,

2014
Aggregate States of Matters

,

2019
Lands of the Sea

,

2019
Towards the Colonies

,

2016
The Witches

,

1990
High Cities of Bones

,

2017
As If Sand Were Stone…

,

2019
American Hunger

,

2013
Dengung Hyena

,

2020
.TV

,

2017
Europium

,

2014
Despiste

,

2019
O Meu Primeiro Apocalipse

,

2021
Triunfo de Helmut

,

2022
Reconstrução

,

2022
As Palavras e os Fios

,

1962
As Cidades e as Trocas

,

2014
Calling Cabral

,

2022
As Sombras e os Seus Nomes

,

2021
I Spit on Your Grave [excerpt]

,

1959
What About China?

,

2022
Atlantics

,

2019
Sunflower Siege Engine

,

2022
The Mississipi Multiverse

,

2020
The Piano

,

1993
Os Demónios de Alcácer Quibir

,

1976
A Mirror of the Cosmos

,

2022
Foreign in a Domestic Sense

,

2021
The End of the World

,

2019
Secrets & Lies

,

1996
Song Of The Sea

,

2014
Eyes Wide Shut [trailer]

,

1999
Cape Fear

,

1962
Sunfish

,

2011
The Living Also Cry

,

2012
Black Cloud

,

2014
2720

,

2023
The War Game

,

1962
The Girls

,

1968
Scrubbers

,

1982
Waterloo Bridge

,

1931
Night Games

,

1966
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

,

1989
Musik i mörker

,

1948
Um Adeus Português

,

1986
Like Twenty Impossibles

,

2003
Salt of This Sea

,

109
The Souvenir: Part II

,

2021
After the Night

,

2013
Fiesta Forever

,

2016
Sunday Afternoon

,

1965
A Arte e o Ofício de Ourives

,

1963
Dom Roberto

,

1962
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

,

1953
Out Loud

,

2022
The Mozart Brothers

,

1986
Paris 1900

,

1947
Girls in Uniform

,

1931
Vanille

,

2020
Maradona's Legs

,

2019
The Penguin's Flight

,

2018
My Extraordinary Summer with Tess

,

2019
Uma Vida Difícil

,

2023
Countryside by the Sea

,

2015
Acera, or the Witches' Dance

,

1972
The Love Life of the Octopus

,

1967
Five Minutes to Sea

,

2018
Jazz on a Summer’s Day

,

1959
Grease
The Tree

,

2018
This Sporting Life

,

1963
Frieda

,

1947
Altépetl

,

2013
A Sibila

,

Elso Roque

,

2023
Armazónia

,

2021
Europa Europa

,

Agnieszka Holland

,

1990
Loving Couples

,

1964
Labor of Love

,

2020
Milk of Amnesia

,

1992
Dr. Glas

,

1968
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

,

2001
Queen

,

2019
Amorosa

,

1986

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