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It’s DOXA time! From May 2nd to 12th, 2024, it’s time to fill your eyes and brain with an epic roster of great new documentaries.

Iris Film Collective is very pleased to be a Community Partner once again this year, and super-thrilled to be presenting Deborah Stratman’s latest: LAST THINGS, Thursday May 2nd, 6:00 PM @ The Cinematheque.

“To human eyes, Earth was dead. Yet another life was evolving for whom this was the time of genesis.” In Deborah Stratman’s Last Things, geological history is told by the primeval beings that know it most intimately—rocks, crystals, microbes and solar materials. In this retelling of Earth’s origin story, the mineral kingdom reigns. What would a stone remember, if asked about the shape of the world millions of years ago? Weaving together poetry, scientific research and photography both beautiful and bizarre, Stratman examines the complex micro worlds that combine to create our larger, more precarious one. -SB

“By turns speculative fiction, documentary, and cosmic horror… Last Things approaches a geological sublime, forcing us to confront the unsettling foreignness of our planet’s deep history.” 
-Peter Goldberg for SCREENSLATE

Check out the whole festival at www.doxafestival.ca and see you there!

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This Sunday, April 28th 2024, be sure to check out N DIMENSIONAL SPACE, an experimental film screening and gathering organized by XINEMA (Iris Film Collective member Sidney Gordon) + UNIT/PITT to accompany Al Razutis’ exhibition GRAVITY WINS, ENTROPY RULES curated by Felix Rapp. Featuring works by Kasper Feyrer, Tamara Henderson, Peter Lipskis, Sam Perry, and Al Razutis released between the years of 1965-2023, this program showcases a range of voices from Vancouver’s experimental film history, representing a community of filmmakers influenced by the shifting ethos and environments of the Pacific Northwest.

Sunday, April 28, 2024, 8pm
The Garden - UNIT/PITT 2954 W4th Ave Vancouver BC

**Please note, this event is taking place outside. Pay-what-you-can tickets will be available at the door. Please plan to arrive early to secure a seat. If weather is poor, the screening will be rescheduled**

Basement Films have truly outdone themselves with this year’s Experiments In Cinema v19.8, an incredible festival of experimental film and video works that will include a special programme of films by Jon Behrens (1964-2022), Belgrade’s Alternative Film Video, a live media performance by 99 Hooker, works from (S8) Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico, and loads more. Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie’s YUL20A will be screening in Experiment 6, and there are a total of an incredible 21 curated collections of work to see.

If you can’t make it in person from April 23-27 2024 in Albuquerque at the Guild Cinema, you can watch it free online May 4-18 2024 at experimentsincinema.org.

Check out the site for the full festival guide and all the film goodies!

“Making developers with the plants from Cypress mountain — cedar and other plant materials. Some of the film was also immersed in ocean water, which affected the image. I buried some of the film by the train tracks after processing it. Through this process, I was bringing those places and bringing Josh into the film physically.” — Nisha Platzer

Great interview on ReIssue!, Alex Jensen and filmmaker Nisha Platzer (and Iris Film Collective member) in conversation: “Synchronicities, Queerness, and Analogue Film” @firstraver @melodiousimagefilm @reissue.pub #irisfilmcollective #nishaplatzer #ecoprocessing #reissue

Iris Film Collective recommends:
Come celebrate the life and work of David Rimmer with a free National Canadian Film Day program devoted to his singular experimental film practice. Friends and collaborators will be in attendance, with remembrances shared throughout the evening.
Wednesday, April 17th 2024 at 7pm, The Cinematheque at 1131 Howe Street. (photo: Self Portrait, by David Rimmer)

The 25th anniversary of the dresdner schmalfilmtage festival will be a truly Canadian event this year, with many films from Canadian Artist (including Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie’s WAITING ROOM in competition), a prairie retrospective with Mike Rollo, as well as a workshop and curated screening with Ontario-based Sandy McLennan. With even more films from Baltic Analog, Austria’s Sixpack Film and plenty more, you will want to be there if not in person then in filmspirit: March 14-17 2024!

We are excited to have Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie participating in the third and final phase of the SPECTRAL Wanderings research seminar in Nantes (France) followed by a european tour of his EXPERIMENTS FOR A SINGLE PROJECTOR with workshops as well in Nantes, Rennes, Berlin, Riga, Helsinki and Vaasa between February 17 and March 11, 2024. Be sure to check it out if you are in the neighbourhood!

Details and links at alexmackenzie.ca

Wishing everybody Season’s Feelings over the holidays, see you in 2024!

We are excited to announce that Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie will be having the European Premiere of YUL20A at Alternative Film Video 2023 in New Belgrade, Serbia. The festival take place 6-9 December. If you are in Serbia, check it out!

Iris Film Collective’s Nisha Platzer will be in person at the Bogotá Film Festival to present BACK HOME Tuesday November 21 at 8pm!

PLUS: A second screening of BACK HOME along with a selection of works from IRIS FILM COLLECTIVE at Maleza, 28bis #49a-70 on Friday November 24 at 7pm.

EXCITING!!

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