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LE CHANT D’EMPÉDOCLEFilm by SYLVAIN L'ESPÉRANCE & MARIE-CLAUDE LOISELLE2019 | 107 minutes | Canada

Palestinian Solidarity fundraiser screening

A benefit screening with all proceeds collected at the door going to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund! Three experimental and radical classics of Palestinian Cinema: They Do Not Exist (directed by Mustafa Abu Ali, 1974, 25 min), Palestinian Identity (directed by Kassem Hawal, 1984, 38 min),  and the avant-garde masterpiece A Hundred Faces for a Single Day (directed by Christian Ghazi, 1971, 64 min).

Microscope is very pleased to present a screening of works by New York-based artist Nina Sobell featuring a selection of videos spanning more than 50 years, from 1971 – shot with a Sony Portapak — to her present-day inquiries using social media platforms and AI. Through her very uniquely empathic lens, she has proposed a type of art based on human interactions through physical installations as well as through other forms of communication mediated by new tools and machines. Sobell will be in attendance and available for a Q&A following the screening.

Douglas Dunn invites artist Hannes Schüpbach to screen his film Essais (2020, 43’), with choreographed shots of dancer Kira Blazek Ziaii – a Douglas Dunn + Dancers member 2008 to 2014 – in an exchange of gestures with artists Stephen Watts, Éléonore Bernard, Heba-Raphaëlle Meffre, Flurin Cuonz, Marco Baschera and Jiajia Zhang. In the fleeting space of the film they all engage in some kind of self-experiment.