Tamar Tabori, “Timequake 2.0,” upcoming installation at the Ministry of Casual Living’s window gallery, Victoria, B.C., 2021. (courtesy Antimatter Festival)
Victoria's Antimatter Festival – featuring international media art and experimental cinema – is back this fall with both online and in-person programming.
From Oct. 14 to Oct. 24, the festival will screen more than 120 films from more than 30 countries.
“Antimatter has always enjoyed receiving work from new artists internationally and functions as an incubator for distributors worldwide,” says festival director Todd Eacrett.
“The response from a new international audience in 2020, especially programmers and curators, was heartening and inspiring, providing us a genuine connection to the experimental media world from outside our region and transcending the limitations of the pandemic.”
Seventy percent of the films this year are either global, North American or Canadian premieres.
Nightly screenings will take place at Deluge Contemporary Art in Victoria, with tickets purchased in advance online. Films will also be available online for free or by donation.
Films on offer include Chris Haring's Stranger Than Paradise, which features Austrian experimental dance company Liquid Loft; Maija Blåfield's The Fantastic, an exploration of how a closed culture might view the outside world; and Jessica Auer's Shore Power, which deals with Iceland's reliance on the tourism industry.
The festival also features installations, including Colton Hash's Generative Architecture at Legacy Gallery, Tamar Tabori's TIMEQUAKE (2.0) at the Ministry of Casual Living’s window gallery, and Adán De La Garza's Protest Etiquette, as well as Gwen Foster's Dreaming in Aspect Ratio, both in Deluge Contemporary Art.
The complete schedule will be available online as of Oct. 1.
Source: Antimatter Festival
