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DIM

A monthly evening of contemporary short-form moving images and cinematic collaborations.

DIM is focused on expanding the visibility of Canadian and international experimental artists and their practices in the cinema, and illuminating underground moving-image culture in Vancouver.

DIM is curated by Amy Lynn Kazymerchyk, a filmmaker, writer, and independent curator. She is invested in nurturing celebration, community, and dialogue around filmmaking, media art and their sister disciplines.

 

Current Showings

Film, video, and digital works from the 1960s to the 2000s that celebrate, knowingly or not, their Islamic origins.
Interesting and inventive VHS, Hi-8, Super-8 and 16mm films and videos from Winnipeg.
An exploration and reconfiguration of cinematic apparatus and emulsion from local media artist Alex MacKenzie.

Recent Screenings

Three acclaimed avant-garde films from Nathaniel Dorsky.
Ben River’s films picture a young world in the early morning of time.
A trilogy of shorts on consumer culture, followed by an improvisational vocal-noise performance piece.
Two eloquent, poetic works by the award-winning filmmaker Kamal Aljafari.
Naomi Uman records her reverse journey of her great-grandparent’s emigration from Uman, Ukraine
The YouTube School for Social Politics (YTSSP) invites historians, artists and theorists to construct passages of historical inquiry through assemblages of YouTube clips.
The “projection performances” of New York-based artist and architect Bruce McClure are immersive cinematic, or proto-cinematic, happenings.
In a city with almost no museums, the city itself becomes the museum, and non-participation becomes a form of resistance.