F-O-R-M 2020 closes with the six world premiere films from our 2020 Commissioned Artists. Learn more about our 2020 Commissioned Artists here.

Zi Ji

CORINNE LANGMUIR & ERIN LUM, VANCOUVER
Commissioned Artists, Youth Category

Zi Ji [zìjǐ, 自己], meaning ‘Self’ in Mandarin, is an introspective dance short depicting the ambiguous beauty of solitude. The film follows our protagonist as she navigates an intimately distant relationship with numbness. She is pushed into a period of self-reflection felt as bleak, lonely, and permanent, yet through emotional exploration the feeling of permanence wavers. This harrowing journey demands more of her than she has to offer. Surrendering, she comes to find loneliness is natural and solitude is man-made.

She is purely nowhere.

Where We Meet

KARMELLA CEN BENEDITO DE BARROS & LEXI MELLISH MINGO, VANCOUVER
Commissioned Artists, Youth Category

Where We Meet is an experimental film exploring the Black femme body and its relationship to space through conscious movement on the unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, and Musqueam people.

The story follows our protagonist as they navigate isolation and seek a sense of belonging in a conflicting and new environment. Drawing on themes of double consciousness and experimental embodiment, this story explores the relationship between Blackness and the environment in which this concept exists.

Drawing from community dialogue to address the filmmakers own subjective relationship to public space as mixed race Black identifying people, this film intends to hold space for diverse experiences of Blackness in so called "Vancouver". In times where racial politics exist in every crevice of society, the filmmakers escape temporal confines by decolonizing our situated experience, delving into the untold past, dreamy memories and future imaginings.

Habitat 86

SASHA J. LANGFORD, VANCOUVER
Commissioned Artist, Emerging Category

Looking upon Science World from Habitat Island brings together an intersection of Vancouver's two defining mega-events from a single location. While both Expo 86 and the 2010 Olympics are popularly remembered for their contributions such as the Skytrain and Olympic Village, fundamental to the new visual environments produced by these events were the imposition of coercive mass evictions of low-income residents. Intervening within the conventions of tourist photography--a visual form produced for and by such mega-events--and with a tone between performative satire and realist documentary, Habitat 86 reflects upon Vancouver's legacies of urban displacement at the level of intimate embodiment.

Sunglow Gecko

KENDRA EPIK, VANCOUVER
Commissioned Artist, Youth Category

Sunglow Gecko is an exploration of introspection and an attempt to piece together fleeting moments of uncertainty. It is trying to understand what it feels like to learn something new for the first time. To make our own conclusions about objects that have already been claimed. As we search to find a shade of a colour that perfectly fits, what else will we discover? Does a conclusion reveal everything about yourself that you need to know? Maybe we already know what this is supposed to be like, but maybe we can decide for ourselves. Colour, shape, light, and texture tell a story that has been told many times, but it will be new. Nothing is certain, everything is certain. If we start again from the beginning, will everything pan out the same?

INTIMATE AGGRESSION

TALIA WOODLAND & GERMAIN CARTER, TORONTO
Commissioned Artists, Youth Category

INTIMATE AGGRESSION is the process of revealing your true self in a world where conformity is best. By way of natural movement, a story of understanding, freedom, and evolution is unveiled.

Lunacy

SIMRAN SACHAR, VANCOUVER
Commissioned Artist, Youth Category

A movement film about sexual abuse and rape and the haunting aftermath that take place inside and outside of a woman’s body. LUNACY explores the expectations, and image placed upon young women and their innocence versus what society really wants from this innocence. The aftermath contains how this experience shaped Simran's movement. From Simran's experiences, she brings you LUNACY from the very depth of the most honest corner of her heart.

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