DIFFUSION 2023

Sight Leak by Peng Zuqiang

The re:assemblage collective is thrilled to announce programming for the second edition of DIFFUSION! The festival presents non-fiction artist films from Canada and across the globe in nine programs of shorts and features.

DIFFUSION summer festival returns from Thursday, August 17 to Sunday, August 20, 2023 in Tkaronto (Toronto). There will be a mix of indoor screenings at YYZ Artists’ Outlet and outdoor films at 401 Richmond’s Courtyard at dusk each evening. Venues are wheelchair accessible with gender neutral washrooms on the ground floor.

Artists and filmmakers featured this year:
Sajjad Abbas, Udval Altangerel, Bassim Al Shaker, Ali Eyal, Yuula Benivolski, Natasha Beste, Luciana Decker, Safi Faye, Kimberly Forero-Arnias, Carolina Fusilier, Nadia Ghanem, Prapat Jiwarangsan, Nazgol Kashani, Mahshid Mahboubifar, Kendra McLaughlin, Sarah Munaf, Cherry Nin, Gembong Nusantara, Jonathan Jose Z. Olarte, Felipe Esparza Pérez, Shu Pi 皮澍, Nguyễn Anh Tú Phạm, Morgan Quaintance, Yonri Soesanto Revolt, James Richards, Rijin Sahakian, Eirini Tampasouli, Janelle VanderKelen, Bo Wang, Sabrina Zhao, Peng Zuqiang!

Bong Xa Bong (Soapy Faggy) by Nguyễn Anh Tú Phạm

DIFFUSION Program

Thursday, August 17, 2023

> 9 PM: I Created a Memory Torch – opening shorts program
Films by: Prapat Jiwarangsan, Cherry Nin, Peng Zuqiang, James Richards,
Natasha Beste, Eirini Tampasouli, Nguyễn Anh Tú Phạm
401 Richmond Courtyard, 401 Richmond Street West, Tkaronto

Friday, August 18, 2023

> 6 PM: Diaries of Divided Selves – shorts program
Films by: Udval Altangerel, Nazgol Kashani, Shu Pi 皮澍, Nadia Ghanem
YYZ Artists’ Outlet, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 140, Tkaronto

> 9 PM: The Works of Morgan Quaintance – artist spotlight
Films include: RIP, Surviving You, Always, South, Repetitions
401 Richmond Courtyard, 401 Richmond Street West, Tkaronto

Man sa yay (I your mother) by Safi Faye

Saturday, August 19, 2023

> 4 PM: Man sa yay (I, Your Mother) (Ich, deine Mutter) by Safi Faye
(1980, 60 minutes, Germany/Senegal, 16mm film on HD Video)
Courtesy Arsenal Distribution
> Preceded by: Failed Calendars by Mahshid Mahboubifar
YYZ Artists’ Outlet, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 140, Tkaronto

> 6 PM: Psychic Shapes, Lingering Marks – shorts program
Films by: Janelle VanderKelen, Carolina Fusilier, Yuula Benivolski, Kendra McLaughlin, Kimberly Forero-Arnias
YYZ Artists’ Outlet, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 140, Tkaronto

> 9 PM: This Cave is Very Large by Sabrina Zhao
(2022, Japan/Canada, 79 minutes, HD Video)
401 Richmond Courtyard, 401 Richmond Street West, Tkaronto

Mayday! May Day! Mayday! by Yonri Soesanto Revolt

Sunday, August 20, 2023

> 4PM: Sada [regroup]
Sajjad Abbas, Ali Eyal, Sarah Munaf, Rijin Sahakian, Bassim Al Shaker
(2022, Iraq, 54 minutes, HD Video)
Commissioned by documenta fifteen
YYZ Artists’ Outlet, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 140, Tkaronto

> 6 PM: Mayday! May Day! Mayday! by Yonri Soesanto Revolt
(2022, 66 minutes, Indonesia, HD Video)
YYZ Artists’ Outlet, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 140, Tkaronto

> 9 PM: Ghost Dance – closing shorts program
Films by: Gembong Nusantara, Felipe Esparza Pérez, Bo Wang, Luciana Decker, Jonathan Jose Zamora Olarte
401 Richmond Courtyard, 401 Richmond Street West, Tkaronto

Generous support for DIFFUSION provided by:
Canada Council for the Arts (Public Outreach programme)

About re:assemblage collective
Since 2016 re:assemblage collective has been committed to championing underrepresented voices and perspectives through public film/video screenings. We are itinerant and intentional. We are “reassembling” assumptions about artist film/video practices: who is shown and the forms of works championed. The re:assemblage collective was co-instigated by Christina Battle and Scott Miller Berry and is currently comprised of Faraz Anoushahpour with Miller Berry and calls Tkaronto/Toronto home.

Programming team for DIFFUSION 2023:
Faraz Anoushahpour
Daphne Xu
Scott Miller Berry

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