XINEMA x Iris Film Collective: Night Visions (w/ Lori Goldston)

 

adv $20

dos $25

This event is 19+

Email booking@kwstudios.ca for PWYC rate ahead of event.

KW events are NOTAFLOF (No one turn away for lack of funds) . NOTAFLOF tickets are of limited capacity.

Please consider your financial need relative to folks in the DTES community where we reside before asking to pay less.

Located 111 West Hastings Street Vancouver. Look for the KW sign off Hastings Street for the entrance.

Doors at 7:30pm

Show at 8pm

As the earth cracks, the sun trembles; the night unfolds in splintered shadow. Sound becomes sight, fractured into luminous fragments. In these eight works, light carves fleeting patterns and quivering colors that emerge in synesthetic rhythm. Through this transformation, this program offers intimate reflections on pain, growth, and reproduction, framed by altered nocturnal perception.

Screening:

 

Sleeping Mountains Lie (Canada, 2014) 

Amanda Thomson

optical sound, live narration

3 min

Drawing a line from light to dark through space and time. Sleeping Mountains Lie takes a colonial fairy tale as its starting point to question what we think we know and when.

 

tulips are my father’s favourite flower (Canada, 2019) 

Nisha Platzer

silent 

3 min

Hand processed tinted and toned 16mm film uses the subject of the work, tulips, to guide reflection and interpretation of both artist and viewer.

 

all around junior male (Canada, 2013)

Lindsay McIntyre

sound muted

7.5 min

A hand-crafted experimental portrait of a young Nunamiut athlete, Sean Uquqtuq through his performance of a challenging traditional Inuit game – the one-foot high kick.

 

Ashes to ashes (In Progress) (Canada, 2024)

Sidney Gordon

silent

6.5 min

A diaristic representation of corpuscal reproduction, biorhythms, and psychic restoration, portrayed through a blazing agricultural landscape. 

350 MYA (Morocco, 2016) 

Terra Long

optical sound

5 min

In the harsh sun, a sheet whips before the camera, shaped by the same wind that forms the rigid, undulating lines of sand below it as the film conjures the continued presence of the now vanished Rheic Ocean in the Tafilalt region of the Sahara Desert.

 

Adventures in Perception (Canada, 2023)

Dave Johnson 

sound muted

2.5 min

A collision of images combining a visual and auditory adventure while talking about being an artist and the process of making a film.

Night Visions (Canada, 2013)

Zoe Kirk-Gushowaty

silent

7.5 min

A conversation about psychic energy, sleep cycles and synaesthesia resulting in a haunting spell of colour and rhythm.

 

Phosphene (Canada, 2018-2025)

Alex Mackenzie

silent

12 min

 

A single painted film loop in tandem with carefully orchestrated lens interference induces a variation on closed-eye vision and non-light hallucination: a subtly immersive and sublime sculpting of light, Phosphene shimmers across the screen, uniting “the cosmic with the microscopic” (Marilyn Brakhage).

Films two to eight by Dave Johnson, Zoe Kirk-Gushowaty, Terra Long, Alex Mackenzie, Lindsay McIntyre, and Nisha Platzer will be live scored.

Lori Goldston plays written and spontaneous work on cello, and works as a composer, teacher, bandleader, and prolific, widely varied collaborator. Her voice as a cellist is deeply textured and original, investigating thresholds, instability, and connections between far-flung modes of thought. 

She lives in Seattle and performs in venues large and small throughout North America, Europe and Australia as a soloist and collaborator with composers, film makers, writers, theater directors, choreographers, visual artists, fashion houses, orchestras and bands including Earth, Nirvana, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Helms Alee, Mirah, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Lonnie Holley, Stuart Dempster, Shelley Hirsch, Ghedalia Tezartes, Senga Nengudi, Ellen Fullman, Lynn Shelton, and many, many others. Bandcamp

Total program time: 44.5 min

 

Q&A after the show!

 

Doors at 7:30pm, Show at 8pm

 

Located 111 West Hastings Street Vancouver. Look for the KW sign off Hastings Street for the entrance.

 

Tickets are a suggested $20 advance and $25 at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds) and limited in quantity. Click here to get your ticket. Please email booking@kwstudios.ca for PWYC rate ahead of event. Please consider your financial need relative to folks in the DTES community where KW resides before asking to pay less.

 

KW Studios is an accessible venue. Folks in need of an elevator can access one through the lobby entrance. Accessible bathrooms are available downstairs. Sound can be loud, but earplugs can be provided free of charge. 

This event is Program 1 of XINEMA x Iris Film Collectives Live and Expanded series, tickets to Program 2: ROGER BEEBE IN PERSON: FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS on January 26, are available here.

Doors at 7:30pm, Show at 8pm

Located 111 West Hastings Street Vancouver. Look for the KW sign off Hastings Street for the entrance.

 

Tickets are a suggested $20 advance and $25 at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds) and limited in quantity. Click here to get your ticket. Please email booking@kwstudios.ca for PWYC rate ahead of event. Please consider your financial need relative to folks in the DTES community where KW resides before asking to pay less.

KW Studios is an accessible venue. Folks in need of an elevator can access one through the lobby entrance. Accessible bathrooms are available downstairs. Sound can be loud, but earplugs can be provided for $1 purchase.

This event is Program 1 of XINEMA x Iris Film Collectives Live and Expanded series, tickets to Program 2: ROGER BEEBE IN PERSON: FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS on January 26, are available here.

Show go generally not much later than 11pm. Doors close and no admittance after 10:45pm or so.

KW Studios is an accessible venue. Folks in need of an elevator can access one through the lobby entrance. Accessible bathrooms are available downstairs. KW events are both auditory and visual. Sound can be loud, but earplugs can be provided free of charge. Lighting is generally lower but can be adjusted and raised to accommodate people who need brighter venues.

 

This event takes place on the unceded and occupied homelands of the Coast Salish peoples of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are immensely grateful for being allowed to continue to live, work, and play on these lands.