FIFA Expérimental — MIGRATIONS

Presented only in theatres

FIFA EXPÉRIMENTAL is an out-of-competition, by-invitation section of the festival put together by visual and media arts curator Nicole Gingras, from Montreal. This selection highlights innovative approaches to film and video from the following angles: creative processes, modes of collaboration between artists in the production of a work, the workings of memory on identity, and the place of the individual in society. This ambitious panorama of exploratory cinema is composed of twenty-four works assembled into four programs. Each film, each video, bears a unique signature, and all the artists are privileged witnesses and revealing agents of their time and the events that shape it.

The eight works in the FIFA Expérimental – MIGRATIONS program address notions of mobility and identity. Migration is explored from a conceptual, analytical, ironic, melancholic, autobiographical, anthropological, or symbolic approach.

Achronie — Laurence Beaudoin Morin. Canada. 2023. 4 min. No dialogue.
Par la bouche de mes canons — Sylvie Laliberté. Canada. 2023. 18 min 51 s. V.O. French.
FoUBARthes: Death of the Author— Dayna McLeod. Canada. 2024. 3 min 5 s. V.O. English.
One Day — Rojin Shafiei. Canada. 2022. 3 min. V.O. English.
Antonio… — Benjamin R. Taylor. Canada. 2023. 7 min 43 s. V.O. English/​Other. English subtitles.
MIROIR no 1 — Mireille Dansereau. Canada. 2023. 6 min 3 s. V.O. French.
Aurinkokirja — Azar Saiyar. Finland. 2024. 9 min 25 s. No dialogue.
Into The Violet Belly — Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi. Belgium, Germany, Malta, Iceland. 2022. 19 min 24 s. V.O. Vietnamese/​English. English subtitles.