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Public Screens: A Body Uncontained Watch Party + Live Talkback🌀

  • Gallery Gachet 9 W Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6B 1G5 Canada (map)

clip of they shoot horses BY Tyler Quincy Yan & Ian Simon (Canada) EMERGING

Public Screens: A Body Uncontained
Watch Party + Live Artist Talkback facilitated by Hân Phạm

Presented in Collaboration with Gallery Gachet
Thursday November 13 | 6:00-8:00PM PST
Location: Gallery Gachet
Doors: 5:30PM PST

Our Public Screens program, A Body Uncontained, reimagines how movement-on-screen is viewed and experienced. This collection of films cannot be contained within the walls of the cinema, they extend beyond the body and the camera to find a landing place on outdoor screens across Metro Vancouver. 

These films were created with deeply personal ponderings in mind, where each artist questions their relationship to a larger concept beyond themselves. Whether this be one’s relationship to time, an object, our surrounding environment, or social system in place, A Body Uncontained pushes us to contemplate new ways of existing beyond the confines of these dynamics.

Thank you to Cinevolution for supporting this program!

List of artists:

Public Screens
Break on a Break
Break on a Break

Jiwoo Park (Canada) YOUTH

Duration: 3:31 

Content warning: harsh language

JP, a jaded restaurant worker, is working her usual shift until she realizes this isn't the life she wants to live. She decides to go on a lunch break.

She heads to a local park and listens to some of her favourite music. Once she starts listening, she fades into a world of dance and freedom of expression.

Suddenly she wakes up from her boss' phone call, and realizes the dancing was all a dream. This however gives her the confidence to finally quit her mundane job she hated, to pursue what she actually loved doing: dancing.

Director & Writer: Jiwoo Park
Co-Producers: Jiwoo Park, Huzaifa Sheikh
Cinematographer & Editor: Huzaifa Sheikh
Cast: Jiwoo Park as JP, Huzaifa Sheikh as Boss
Music: Outkast Type Beat - "Talk" By Bailey Daniel

Punto de fuga 
Punto de fuga 

Vianney Rodríguez (Mexico) EMERGING

Canadian Premiere

Duration: 4:59

Punto de fuga refers to the journeys, feelings and difficulties experienced during the migration phenomenon, where people leave their homes to flee violence, social exclusion and poverty in search of a more dignified life. The idea for this video dance was born in 2018, the year in which the migrant caravan, made up of people from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, began its journey north.

Director: Vianney Rodríguez
Cinematographer: Vianney Rodríguez 
Dancers: Vianney Rodríguez y Edén García 
Choreography: Vianney Rodríguez 
Camera: Nadia Kareli Rodríguez 
Music: Omar Urbina

Les Chaussures Rouges (The Red Shoes)
Les Chaussures Rouges (The Red Shoes)

Maylis Arrabit (France) EMERGING

Canadian Premiere

Duration: 9:50

Written by Maylis Arrabit, with Carolina Kzan bringing her vision to the screen, Les Chaussures Rouges (The Red Shoes) follows Maylis as she faces an imminent separation in her life. The relationship she shares with a key partner in her daily life compels her to revisit her journey and emotions. Through dance, this film explores feelings of change, transition, emancipation, and the invisible bonds that resonate within us.

Original concept, Script, Choreography: Maylis Arrabit
Director Editor: Carolina Kzan
Original score: Wolf Kroeger
Text and voice over: Maylis Arrabit
Production: Compagnie In(-)Between
Executive Production: Irene van Zeeland - Omaro Productions
Assistant Choreography: Alba Fernandez Gonzalez, Irene van Zeeland
Costumes: Evelyne Arrabit, Sander Verbeek (SAND-R)
Access Worker: Bernadette Arrabit
Theater support and Technician: Jokin Agirrezabalaga Aginaga
Supports: Donostia Kultura, Gaztezsena ; Gipuzkoako Dantzagunea

Image Description:
Against a black background, illuminated by a spotlight behind her, Maylis, a white woman, dances in her wheelchair. Dressed in a black jumpsuit and red ankle boots, she is suspended to one side. Her ponytail floats in the wind.

they shoot horses
they shoot horses

Tyler Quincy Yan & Ian Simon (Canada) EMERGING

Duration: 7:31

Content warning: depiction of mental health struggles, light strobe lighting

Initially a private personal project, they shoot horses depicts how feelings of hopelessness and despair can be paralyzing, but human connections remind us that life is worth seeing through, if you’re willing to accept a hand. This film draws on the lived experience of a crippling diagnosis, “if I am broken and irreparable, is it worth the struggle of living?” The film responds through a mantra, “if it’s meant to be, then it will be.”

Directors: Tyler Quincy Yan, Ian Simon
Cinematographer: Ian Simon
Choreographer: Tyler Quincy Yan
Editor: Ian Simon 
Dancers: Tomiwa Adetoyese-Olagunju, Vincent Cezar, Candace Choi, Jennifer Choi, Kailey Huang, Paul Ji, Phil Kim, Ho Seok Lee, Kaman Carmen Lee, Bithanya Lemma, Neil Lordson Tangcuangc, Ben Luu, Kaylee McCullough, Marissa Nuñez, Nathan Parian, Eric Pinkerton, Emma Powell, Aashnin Rashid, Pauline Rivera, Yciar Santos, Krista Shepard, Mikayla Sinnott, Han Szeptycki, Brianna Tam, Kim Vuong, Tyler Quincy Yan, Nicole Yen
Production Assistants: Omar Afuni, Ghazal Bigdeli, Marion Kang, Ryan Palattao
Special Thanks: Community Space at 131 McCormack, Lavender Creek Loft, Cassidy Barnes, Safa Ali Mudei, Tina Lee

Amissaba
Amissaba

Yahya Ibrahim Eshun (Ghana) YOUTH

World Premiere

Duration: 3:00 

Amissaba finds herself in a melancholic worlds, who struggles to keep relationships. Self discovery, re-invention and submission, used the cinema language with no rules but a way of expressing a vision through the medium.

Director: Yahya Ibrahim Eshun
Producer: Emmanuel Fenyi 
Talent: Afua Amissaba 
Cinematopher: John kojo Eshun
Voice over: Judith Sormah 
Text Editors: Richard de-graft Tawiah and Benjamin

She Wants to Cry
She Wants to Cry

Yifan Li (Canada) YOUTH

World Premiere

Duration: 7:24

Content warning: course language 

She Wants to Cry explores how a woman lives under unspoken pressures by transforming her bodily response into a poetic act. Set in a forest near Paris, the video captures a physical theatre performer’s spontaneous reactions to both text and nature. The artist uses her body as a site to process, resist, and reinterpret expectations imposed by society and language.

Director: Yifan Li
Performer: Xiaoyue Xiao
Text: Yifan Li
Cinematographer: Linjing Wang, Yifan Li
Editor: Yifan Li
Music: Émile Savoie
Narration: Anan Xu

Syncopate
Syncopate

Maxx Sadler (Canada) YOUTH

World Premiere

Duration: 4:26

Syncopate is an experimental short film that explores the feeling of tension through the use of audio, sound mixing and no spoken dialogue. Using movement, paralleled by a game of chess, the film investigates body language, pacing and repetition to portray the tension that builds up and later dissolves throughout the duration of the chess game.

Production Team: Maxx Sadler, Abby Zinken, Una Yu
Cast: Divine Obiajunwa, Naomi Mor
Movement Artists: Lamont, Elstana Blair

Her Stories Have Always Been a Part of Me
Her Stories Have Always Been a Part of Me

Naomi Watkins (Canada) YOUTH

Duration: 7:13

While traveling to their nation, Naomi Watkins reflects on the stories that have shaped them—those passed down and encountered along the way. Revisiting these memories reveals a shift from self-doubt to a deeper understanding of spirit and the care held by the land when one listens closely. Created as a guest on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations, the work engages video and text to trace a journey marked by reconnection and reflection. As someone who grew up away from their nation, Watkins navigates the complexities of displacement, belonging, and the ongoing relationship between self, story, and place.

Director: Naomi Watkins

Public Screens: A Body Uncontained
Ongoing throughout November 2025

Schedule:

Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen 
On loop all day weekends November 8/9, 15/16, and 22/23 
On loop weekdays 3:00-9:00PM November 10-14 and 17-21

Richmond Cultural Centre Annex
TBA

Lipont Place
On rotation daily at Lipont Place's outdoor LED screen from November 7-22

Gallery Gachet
On loop 24/7 from November 7-22

If you can’t catch these films in-person, you can still experience them from November 8-30 via our Digital Library by purchasing a Digital Experience Pass.

Snap a pic or video of the screens and tag @formvancouver — we’d love to see how you experience these moments of movement!

To learn more about our support offerings and venue accessibility visit our FAQ page.

Earlier Event: November 12
Collisions of Commissions: Installation 🌀
Later Event: November 14
Insight into the Artistic Process 🆓