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We’re super stoked to see that Home Made Visible artist commissions, Arrival Archives and Caribou in the Archives will be screening later this month at ReFrame Film Festival as part of the short film program The Archive is Alive.
‘The Archive is Alive’
Date: Saturday, January 26, 2019
Time: 10:00am EST
Location: The Venue
We Are Moving Stories
In lead up to to the ReFrame Film Festival screening Maya Bastian’s film Arrival Archives was recently covered in We Are Moving Stories. Check out the article for more on Maya’s thoughts about the impetus of the film and the importance of telling these stories.
The film is touring! It will travel to several places in Canada in the next year. If you can catch it and the other films in the Home Made Visible series by Regent Park Film Festival, please do. Every film in the series uses archival material to highlight the stories of people of colour, and all of them are made by indigenous and visible minority female artists. It feels revolutionary. – Maya Bastian
Arrival Archives
Home Made Visible is going on tour to 16 locations nationwide – and the dates are now live! We are excited to bring the six short films and one mixed media installation by our commissioned artists to cities near you. If you weren’t there for the World Premiere of Home Made Visible during the 16th Annual Regent Park Film Festival this year, then you should surely come to one of the libraries in which our FREE exhibition will be taking place.
Exhibition: All films are available to screen on a designated screening computer at the featured branch.
Screening: A one time screening of the program that includes a Q&A with the Project’s filmmakers.
Workshop: Come out and build your own archives!
Installation: A mixed media installation Reunion by Melisse Watson.
Don’t know much about Home Made Visible?
Home Made Visible is a nationwide archival project that brings a personal lens to Indigenous and visible minority archives through FREE exhibitions, screenings, and workshops in libraries across Canada.
Check out our tour schedule! And read more in our tour press release.
Two of our talented Home Made Visible artists, filmmaker Maya Bastian and multidisciplinary artists Melisse Watson, were interviewed by Support Your Local Collective on Radio Regent on the thinking behind their works “Arrival Archives”, and “Reunions; Self Determinations of the Black American South” respectively. Listen in to hear what they had to say!
Home Made Visible artistic director, Ananya Ohri speaks with Artspeak Digest Radio . Artspeak partnered with Recollective to present an archives-themed show as part of Vancouver Independent Archives Week 2018! The interview aired Tuesday, November 13th @ 9 pm PST on Co-op Radio 100.5FM.
She touches on the Project’s inception, the ongoing digitization of home movies, the artists commission and their upcoming premiere, and what’s next for the Project!
All works premiere Saturday, November 17th at 2:30 pm at Daniels Spectrum. Book your seats here now.
Thanks to friend of the Festival, Grunt Gallery for connecting us!
On Thursday, October 18th at our Annual Fundraiser we launched our full festival lineup for the 16th Annual Regent Park Film Festival. This year’s lineup includes 44 films, including our very own Home Made Visible artists collection. The entire Regent Park Film Festival offers FREE ADMISSION and FREE CHILDCARE and runs Nov. 14 – 17th, 2018.
Check out our festival press release and special presentation – press releases for more details on the programs.
Get a sneak of the program below with our Home Made Visible Trailer:
Saturday, November 17th at 2:30 pm
Daniels Spectrum – 585 Dundas St. E
- Six short films screening
- One mixed media installation
- Talkback with all artists and Project’s Artistic Director
Questions? Email homemade@regentparkfilmfestival.com or call 416 599 7733
We hope to see you there!
PS- If you miss the world premiere, you can join us in 2019 as we tour all the Home Made Visible artist works through libraries across Canada. Stay tuned.
