RAPPORT REPORT VIDEO SCREENING

Hart House Art Committee’s Outreach sub-Committee Presents "Rapport
Report" at the University of Toronto Film Festival
DATE: Wednesday, March 11

TIME: 8:30 PM

VENUE:
Innis Town Hall
Innis College, University of Toronto
2 Sussex Ave
Toronto, ON
http://www.uoftfilmfest.ca/venue.php

FESTIVAL WEBSITE: http://www.uoftfilmfest.ca/


Rapport Report: the possibilities of community (83:30)

Curated by Tejpal Ajji (Adjunct Curator of Outreach, Justina M. Barnicke
Gallery) and the Hart House Art Committee’s Outreach Committee. This
screening is organized by the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in partnership with
the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Resources &
Programs (University of Toronto), and New College (University of Toronto).
The JMB Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council
for the Arts.

The Debutante Ball (4:00)
Produced during a student focused, weekend long, collaborative video-
making workshop organized by the Hart House Film Board and the Justina M.
Barnicke Gallery. Participants used the Hart House as a film set to evoke a
sense of fantasy through costume and improvised stage design.
Project participants: Kristyna Balaban, Boglarka Uzoni, Mariuxi Zambrano,
Leila Gajusingh, Susan Fairbairn, David Leblanc, Chen Liu, and others.
Artist Oliver Husain led the workshop assisted by Dagny Thompson.

Lesbian / Gay / Bisexual / Transgender / Queer videos (25:30)
This program mines queer and transgender identities, spaces, and ideas,
through works by videomakers representing the University of Toronto’s three
campuses and from an open call for submission.

The Astronaut (5:15)
By Dagny Thompson
The artist recounts a childhood wish of becoming an astronaut. Dressed as
such, Thompson walks through a playground and attempts to drink coffee in a
café, living out desires of expression however quietly.

Wing Machine (3:30)
By Hodgson and Moffat Productions, University of Toronto at St. George
It is Monday, chicken wing day, and “Mindy” prepares herself for a day to
indulge in greasy fried and sauced goodness.

Untitled (territory) (5:15)
By Ryan Lord, University of Toronto at Mississauga / Sheridan Institute of
Technology
Lord applies red poster paint to his genitals then ‘tea bags’ a movie poster.
This action suggests the hints of violence which can characterize sexual
gestures.

Taking Root (4:18)
By Hisayo Horie
Horie traces the melancholy of her migration to Canada through a metaphor of
adaptation akin to plants.

This is me (3:13)
By Johnson Ngo, University of Toronto at Mississauga / Sheridan Institute of
Technology
Ngo contests stereotypes while referring to voice-over dubbings of translated
cinematic works.

Cake (8:00)
By Allen Huynh, Ontario College of Art & Design
Recited as a partner search profile, Huynh describes facets of his sexual
identity. He intertwines autobiographic details with the lives of former
partners. The video’s unsettling green hue imbues it with melancholy
heightened by the confessional style of Huynh’s delivery.


Short and Sweet (34:00)
This broad-ranging selection of works utilize animation, artificial intelligence,
performance art, or subtle intervention into architectural environments to
reconsider naturalized structures imbedded in the mundane and everyday.
Videomakers represent the University of Guelph and the Ontario College of
Art & Design, in addition to recent graduates of the University of Toronto and
other institutions.

Inside Me (3:45)
By Gintas Tirilis
Using cutouts, drawing, hand-held animation, and voiceover, Tirilis takes
viewers on a tour through the inner workings of his bodily functions—from the
bugs living in his entrails to the computer in his brain.

The Word Factory (4:48)
By Liam Johnstone
Want to know how words and letters are fashioned? Johnstone’s animation
presents the interpersonal politics of a factory staffed by letters of the
alphabet.

Fun with Predictive Text (3:00)
By Matt Williamson, Ontario College of Art & Design
Using the search field of a Google page, Williamson enters passages which
bring up a series of past searches characterized by similar sentence structure
though depart in content.

Verbal Burglary (4:00)
By Mani “Scalez” Mazinani
Mazinani’s interest in the technological and aesthetic composition of video
merge with the lyrical flow of hip-hop music.

Folding City (1:10)
By Lena Chun, Ontario College of Art & Design
A cityscape referring to Toronto’s skyline rapidly transforms through a series
of animation techniques.

Layering (1:00)
By Miles Stemp, University of Guelph
The artist slowly wears all the clothing he owns. As he balloons and swells,
Stemp becomes an image that could represent an itinerant traveler carrying
his home and belongings on his back.

Courtesy (2:00)
By Courtney Bryant and Stephanie Fong, University of Guelph
A lone figure becomes an architectural feature in the busy thoroughfares of a
university building.

321 (1:20)
By Shera Mekhail, University of Guelph
Mekhail satirically investigates the stereotypes and representations of her
self-image as it is mapped onto objects and through desires.

Rod, Bernie, Peggy, Aislinn (8:00)
By Aislinn Thomas, University of Guelph
Using her kitchen as a set for storytelling, Thomas recounts a family history
using recipes representing her father, mother, grandfather, and herself.

APHASIA (4:24)
By Danielle Williams
A man’s reflection is caught on the window of a moving train while an urban
landscape rapidly moves in the distance. Subtitles written in a code language
trace a story Williamson does not easily give over.

Tri-Campus Video (20:00)
Students from the University of Toronto's three campuses address the urban
environment, the formal and aesthetic qualities of video, to the effect of family
history on their own identity.

untitled (letters) (4:00)
By Violetta Parra de Moya, University of Toronto at Mississauga / Sheridan
Institute of Technology
The artist’s grandmother writes a letter on her stomach for Par de Moya to
read.

Water: Contained Cycle (5:00)
By Liya Hyun Joo Choi, University of Toronto at St. George
The artist floats weightlessly in a pool of water then quickly breaks this
meditative image.

Looped Death (3:30)
By Annie Tse, University of Toronto at Scarborough
This unsettling video captures the final twitching moments of a fly’s life.

Legs (3:30)
By Kaitlin Till-Landry, University of Toronto at St. George
Faint traces of dripping water and the body of a woman emerge through a
grid-like screen.

Entropic Landscape (3:10)
By Julia Abraham, University of Toronto at St. George
Abraham renders a townscape with smeared colours through a simple
intervention: placing a glass cup in front of the video lens while taping.

On the Making of Love (1:00)
By Mariuxi Zambrano, University of Toronto at St. George
Zambrano re-performs an action described to her by a female prison inmate.
The inmate produced red hair ‘scrunchies’ to pass her time and meditate on
her personal history.