Two Film Screenings by Filmmaker Madi Piller
Saturday, 30 March, 2024 • 20 Adar II 5784
8:45 PM - 10:00 PMBeth Tikvah Synagogue
FILM DESCRIPTIONS:
Not Moldova, 1937 | 13:00 | 16mm -> 2019
The artist brings her exemplary camera eye to Moldova, in the erased Bessarabia region, home of her grandparents, before they were driven out along with their Jewish comrades. Thousands were murdered. Fragments of survivor testimonials mix with archival photographs and objects, along with present-day city celebrations (what is being forgotten in these civic rites of memory?). Haunting natural landscapes grow over the dead, the abandoned graveyards and stones that mark the places where culture used to be performed and community used to exist. This is a synoptic act of grieving, but also a summoning of the present, a conjuring of the thousand ways that the betrayals of neighbours and friends marked out the Jews who had lived peaceably amongst them for generations, newly caught now in a terror of state oppression and greed.
Untitled, 1925 | 26:30 | 16mm -> 2016
Poetry, landscape, memory and identity play at the heart of this film.
Travelling through the highlands of Peru the artist follows the path her Romanian grandfather took in 1925, from Lima to Cuzco.
The spaces and vast, silent territory of the Andes is the backdrop for the artist’s insights and reflections in search of identity and belonging.
Filmed and processed on 16mm black and white film and transferred to digital HD.
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MADI PILLER is a filmmaker, animator, programmer, and independent curator currently living and working in Toronto, Canada. Her abstract, nonrepresentational and poetic images are drawn from film explorations in Super 8, 16mm and 35mm, as well as photography and video. The resulting imagery is strongly influenced by diverse animation techniques and styles. Madi’s films have been screened at film festivals, alternative spaces, and contemporary art venues nationally and internationally including TIFF Wavelengths, the Festival du Cinema Jeune, Paris, France, Bienal de La Imagen Movimiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina and the Melbourne Animation Festival, Melbourne, Australia. Her work has been produced with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council and Chalmers Arts Fellowship. International residencies include Museum Quartier21, Vienna Austria, the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Yukon, NWT, and the Independent Imaging Retreat, Durham, Ontario. |
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