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Public Screens: Elongating Pace


film still of Between Grit & Joy: Celebrating Our Ways of Moving by Andrew Heule

Public Screens: Elongating Pace

Presented in Partnerships with grunt gallery, The City of Richmond, and Lipont Gallery

November 6-20 2026
Locations:

  • MOUNT PLEASANT COMMUNITY ART SCREEN (MPCAS) | Viewed Outside
    Intersection of Broadway & Kingsway, Vancouver
    Screen on the side of the Independent Building (168 BC-1A, Vancouver)

  • RICHMOND CULTURAL CENTRE ANNEX | Viewed Inside

    7660 Minoru Gate, Richmond

  • LIPONT PLACE | Viewed Outside 

    4211 No. 3 Road, Richmond

Amidst the fast-paced nature of a day, Public Screens: Elongating Pace shifts the rhythm of the city to reveal an alternative heartbeat for an urban landscape. It extends an invitation to pause in your path and turn your attention to be with someone or something’s presence in a public space. Spanning across various locations in Metro Vancouver, our daily commutes become choreographies with the movements of these screens. 

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2026 Films
CURRENTS
CURRENTS

Aysia Tse (Canada) YOUTH
Vancouver Premiere
Duration: 3:01

CURRENTS explores the fluid bodymind in fluid space, engaging the tensions that come with embodying a multiplicity of identities. Moving through watery space as a site of the in-between, the unsure, the unresolved, the not-yet-known, the work leans into a feeling of ambiguity, transformation and the possibilities that emerge from movement.

The work dreams towards new ways of relating to the self that does not require a fixed answer, but allows for space to process, articulate, unfold, or to reject the need for definition entirely.

Director, editor and performer: Aysia Tse
Sound designer: Kurtis Perrie
Cinematographer: Jasmine Myers

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Where are you going?
Where are you going?

Ryan Iwanaka and Maxym Miller (Canada) YOUTH
Vancouver Premiere
Duration: 2:25

Where are you going? is an exploration, without a destination. Rather than ending up anywhere explores the moments in-between. Media and movement, for just that.

For our first film together we had to explore, not what we knew what would work; but what we thought might not. This film is a culmination of various explorations as dancer and animator, as mixed media artists, as Max and Ryan, together.

Where are you going?

Director: Maxym Miller
Cinematographer: Maxym Miller
Dancer: Ryan Iwanaka
Assistant Rotoscope Artist: Helaina Appleyard-Miller
Sound Design: Ryan Iwanaka
Additional Videographer: Chanel Hulston

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Between Grit & Joy: Celebrating Our Ways of Moving
Between Grit & Joy: Celebrating Our Ways of Moving

Andrew Heule (Canada) EMERGING
World Premiere
Duration: 12:40

Starting from a place of crip care and radical crip acceptance, Between Grit & Joy set out to document the movement of 6 different lower limb amputees. Then, the rhythm of each person's unique movement were interpreted creatively into percussion-based musical pieces. My hope is that this work serves as a way of pushing back against an ableist view that renders non-normative ways of moving unacceptable, and forces us to try to mask our disabilities while filling us with shame for not always being able to do so.

Director: Andrew Heule*
Cinematographer: Rico Moran*
Music: Andrew Heule
Movers: Patty de Guia, Brian Ellison, Therese Estacion, Matthew Porter, Andrew Heule, Patricia Raulino
Access Consultants: Natasha Courage Bacchus, Sage Lovell, Theodore Walker Robinson

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Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition

Steven Jorge Johnson (Canada) YOUTH
World Premiere
Duration: 2:30

How can the body become the tongue; how can the dance become the paragraph? Through every sense or linguistic medium, this film endeavors to pinpoint the concept of existence in relation to time. Living is in the small moments, and yet happens in a tapestry of minutia. Infinity finds love in the millisecond. Created to be viewed as an infinite loop, Pattern Recognition probes the importance of a moment in the choreographic continuity of living. Every letter has a place in a word; every word, a line. Every line, a life.

Director: Steven Jorge Johnson*
Cinematographer: Chace Haw
Dancer: Steven Jorge Johnson

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ʔa·kinq̓uku
ʔa·kinq̓uku

Jude Pierre and Samantha Sutherland (Canada) EMERGING
World Premiere
Duration: 11:36

Fire ignites, grows, burns, and devours. Once it decays, what destruction does it leave behind? How does the earth regrow out of the ashes?

ʔa·kinq̓uku, the word for fire in the Ktunaxa Language, is a work that follows the life cycle of a wildfire, and the regrowth that occurs after. This piece was created in reaction to a wildfire that burned through the artists’ home community of ʔaq̓am in the summer of 2023.

Co-Directors: Jude Pierre and Samantha Sutherland
Cinematographer: Jude Pierre
Editor: Jude Pierre
Choreography and Performance: Samantha Sutherland
Composer: Edgardo Moreno
Costume: Cindy Sutherland

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HOME - 家
HOME - 家

Bai Li Wiegmans (Netherlands) EMERGING
Canadian Premiere
Duration: 10:35

HOME - 家 is an autobiographical dance short film telling the story of a Chinese adoptee in The Netherlands.

Director Bai Li takes you on an intimate exploration of self-discovery and acceptance in search of a sense of belonging. Through dance, music and poetry, she delves into the diverse emotions surrounding her adoption journey.

The story serves as an ode to those who navigate the complex terrain of adoption and dual identities. Giving voice to those without a fixed feeling of home and offering comfort and understanding to anyone who has ever felt caught between worlds.

Director: Bai Li Wiegmans
Dancer and choreographer: Bai Li Wiegmans
Composer and music producer: Bongjin Jung
Director of photography: Christopher James Viñalon
Voices: Xiaojie Pan, Bai Li Wiegmans, Henri Wiegmans
Poem: Li Bai - Quiet night thoughts

Special thanks to: Het Cultuurfonds

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Later Event: November 6
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