MOMENTA: UNE AUTRE VERSION DE LA RÉALITÉ
Genre
Court-métrage
Language
VOM
Duration
120
Rating
Synopsis
FREE SCREENING – reservation required
MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain, in partnership with the Cinéma du Musée and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, brings together a series of short films exploring the power of images and their ability to construct a particular version of reality.
Curator and facilitator: Yaniya Lee
Program :
- Associations, John Smith, 1975, 7 min
- Cavity, ariella tai, 2019, 6 min
- Palcorecore, Dana Dawud, 2023, 6 min
- Wind (Szél), Marcell Iványi, 1996, 7 min
- How Not to Be Seen, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, 1970, 4 min
- Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris, Terence Dixon, 1970, 28 min
About the event
This film program takes Yaniya Lee’s Momenta catalogue essay “We Don’t Need Images What
It Feels Like Is Good Enough” as a starting point to examine how moving images can shift our
assumptions about the meaning behind what we see.
Here formal experimentation dissembles and reshapes the meaning of images. Placed side by side, these works show us the ways in which representation can be at odds with reality. Through a variety of mediums, John Smith, Razan AlSalah, Dana Dawud, Marcell Iványi and others explore the construction of visual narratives.
About the curator
Yaniya Lee is the author of Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art (figure ground and Art Metropole, 2024) and Buseje Bailey: Reasons Why We Have to Disappear Every Once in a While, A Black Art History Project (Artexte, 2024). She has taught and written about art for artists, magazines, universities, and arts institutions across North America and Europe.
Credits
Release date
October 29, 2025
Directed by
Multiples
Country
Multiples