Novel Narratives: A Video Out Screening

March 6, 2025
Doors: 6.45PM
Screening starts at 7PM
Duration: 55 Minutes
Post Q&A with the artists in attendance.
FREE!

When telling a story, there are only seven basic plots. Or maybe three. Or maybe five. It depends on who you ask. But you need conflict. And you need a protagonist. Or maybe you don’t. Maybe you don’t need any characters at all?

Drawn from our annual call for submissions, Video Out has brought together a collection of exciting new works for our first screening of 2025. Ranging from the haunting to the humorous, from the autobiographical to the mystical, these videos investigate the very art of storytelling, in any form.

The screening will take place at 7pm, and will run for 55 minutes before a brief intermission. After, we invite everyone for a Q&A session with the artists in attendance.

All ages event, popcorn and drinks at the bar!

Program‍

a truth that cannot be told (remembering 50 years), marcela oñate-trules, 2024, 11:52
a truth that cannot be told (remembering 50 years) is an offering from a daughter to her father. It is a film made in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Chilean military coup in which the filmmaker reflects on exile, home, and intergenerational remembering.

exits / entrances, Yen Lim, 2024, 11:22
I live to leave, I leave to live. A confrontation with both cultural unfamiliarity and personal introspection– what lies beyond those doors? Are they just symbols of transition, curiosity, and the constant negotiation between leaving and staying? Why do we constantly seek for more? Of stepping into others' safe spaces and leaving something behind, of human connection and freedom across linguistic barriers and unfamiliar territories. On embracing yet questioning the in-between, the shift in physical and lyrical perspectives, while trusting every move/mistake made.
An unplanned exploration, a concept of "how not to make a film," produced as part of Apichatpong Creators' Lab 2023 and shot in Yucatán, Mexico.

Freya, Elisa González, 2024, 21:03
Tethering falconry and motherhood, Freya weaves together themes of death and magic, where seasons re-arrange, just as myth and memory are re-cast through a childhood spell.
Freya grew out of a personal and collaborative place rooted in a set of relationships between falconer and bird, mother and child – relationships sometimes paradoxical and tenuous; restrained and joyous. The film explores the complexities of these relationships and their connection to the natural world enveloping them. Within the intimate framework of making this film, the viewer also considers larger themes pointing to the inequitable spaces nature occupies, at times both personal and political; charged spaces experienced in measures both wild and privileged.

on departure, Lee Ingram, 2023, 3:18
"During a farewell visit to a special spot on the territories of Sc'ianew (Beecher Bay) First Nations, Lee recalls memories of rest and solitude with the land...and meets a familiar forest being along the way".
This film is about my connection to Coast Salish lands and waters, specifically where is colonially known as Vancouver Island. It follows a dialogue between myself and the spirits that I met in the forests and ocean...what I see, feel, and hear are just extensions of myself, and in this way, the "self" becomes nothing.
The necessity of a quiet, listening solitude. A unification of human and nature.

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