✨desert islands✨
the film I made with my father in Bulgaria 🌊🌊 is screening in Toronto, as part of a dreamy outdoor projection thanks to @reassemblagecollective 🤍
Delighted to return to the very special, Semaine de la critique de Montréal, with a screening of Last Evenings on Earth on Jan. 18th at Cinéma du Musée.
✨ merci Mathieu, Ariel & all the programming team for this wonderful invitation. ✨
✨ merci Guillaume Lafleur & the Cinémathèque Québécoise for commissioning the film.
🌹sound design by Robin Pineda Gould, @rpgould
🌹vocal performance by Dana Gavanski, @danagavanski
2026
To know that human beings are not the center of anything
To practice innocence with whoever wishes to share
To listen to the voices of those who suffer with the same intention as i look at an ancient tree
To mingle with strangers and drink coffee with friends
To dance as a way to connect to where I come from
To be an artist and an auntie to my friends’ children
To make enough money to see family and treat everyone I meet on the way as a family
To smile when I am happy and cry when I am down
To say I am cold, hold me
To have the courage to look at another direction
To swim in the sea whenever I can and to remember that too is poetry
~
Here to celebrate the return of the birds with a new film, Last Evenings on Earth.
Commissioned by Guillaume Lafleur and The Cinémathèque québécoise, the film incorporates clips from the iconic first feature of Alexander Sokurov, The Lonely Voice of Man.
In my work, the voice belongs to my dear friend - the sublime Dana Gavanski @danagavanski accompanied by the amazing sound work of Robin Pineda Gould @rpgould
Last evenings on Earth will be presented tonight at a very special screening at the Cinémathèque, in the context of the International congress of archives in cinema (FIAF).
The screening includes new works by Theodore Ushev, Michaela Grill, Charles-André Coderre, Steven Woloshen ✨
Some words i wrote about David Lynch and my experience around his films. I wrote it last night in a flash. The words don’t fit the space here so i’m sharing it as an image.
Delighted to start the year with a screening of Let The Red Moon Burn as part of the inaugural edition of Montreal Critics’ Week on January 17th ( at Cinéma moderne) !
✨Merci Panorama-cinéma and all the programming team for this wonderful invitation✨
“ The ancient Bulgarian ritual of fire dancing is preserved on hand-processed 16mm film, and images of movement, fire and landscape burn like imprints of light left behind when we close our eyes.” - DOXA, 2024.
Merci Emma, Ben, Anne F, everyone that came and made this evening so special and dreamy ✨ as part of the IN SITU screening on June 6th. ✨
♥️ @lalumierecollective@emma_roufs@samy_benammar
♥️photos: Samy Benammar ( b&w) and Emma Roufs ( color)
La Lumière Collective is a family.
Ten years ago Ben Taylor invited me to show a found footage film at a tiny, second-hand fripperie on Parc Avenue that no longer exists. This was my first “real” screening and the program was Visions.
Today and forever, I beleive in the cinema that happens on these chairs, mismatched, colorful, crackling and beach-like, where wine is cheap and friends are everywhere.
Thanks to the dear Emma Roufs for the invitation and her programming of this wonderful evening of films and performance ♥️
The event is Sold Out but I’ve been told there may be tickets at the door if you arrive early, at 7pm ~
** last photo with Ben and roses at the opening of Media City this fall.
with Erin at the premiere of Let The Red Moon Burn at the RIDM Film Festival in Montreal this fall.
A reminder of that which will never die : Friendship + Free Palestine ❣️🍉
📸 by Fred HB
