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““Movie images are dim reflections of the beauty and ferocity in mankind.” JAMES BROUGHTON

DIM is a monthly evening of moving-image art and cinematic experiments. DIM presents Canadian and international artists and their moving-image practices in dialogue with cinema. DIM is curated by Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk, a Vancouver filmmaker, writer, and curator. Amy is the Coordinator of Events + Exhibitions at VIVO Media Arts Centre and Curator of the Signal + Noise Media Arts Festival.

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Current Showings

Film Diary: John Price
John Price is a Toronto-based Canadian independent filmmaker who has been making experimental documentaries, dance, and diary films since 1986.
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
Jonas Mekas, one of the central figures in American avant-garde cinema, and his brother Adolfas (1925-2011), fled their native Lithuania in 1944 due to the war.

Recent Screenings

History and Stories: Documenting Documentaries
CURATOR PASCALE CASSAGNAU IN ATTENDANCE! These works exemplify interactions between contemporary art and documentary practices that are particularly fecund.
The Road Ended at the Beach and Other Legends: Parsing the “Escarpment School”
CURATOR BRETT KASHMERE IN ATTENDANCE! The “Escarpment School” outlines a loosely knit band of Ontario-based filmmakers that came of age in the late-1970s.
Beatrice Gibson: The Future’s Getting Old Like The Rest of Us
A 16mm film conceived in the format of a TV play and set in a seniors’ care home.
Nicolas Boone: Liquidation
ARTIST IN ATTENDANCE! A visual artist based in Paris, Boone creates a living discourse with the death of cinema.
Ben Russell: By the Light of the Black and White Gods
FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE + PERFORMANCE! This work "continues Russell’s unique investigation into the possibilities of cinema as a site for transcendence."
The Time Dilation Machine
Double-8, Super-8 and 16mm films made in the 1970s by Hank Bull, Kate Craig, Patrick Ready, Byron Black and friends
Suspicious Futures: Select Video Works of Susan Britton
Five recently restored works by Susan Britton, one of the original artists and founders of Toronto-based Vtape, which have been out of distribution for almost 15 years.
The Permanent Longing for Elsewhere
Four short works exploring questions of national identification, and the sense of frustration that often accompanies experiences of migration.
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