Disrupting the Everyday: Women’s Experimental Video and Film

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Nada El-Omari, “from where to where لوين وين من d'où vers où,” 2022

8 min (courtesy of the gallery)

This event features leading practitioners and writers in the field of media art from Toronto, Montreal, Mumbai, and New Delhi. Admission is free.

The event shows SAVAC’s (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) MONITOR 15 experimental film and video program. As a part of their 15^th anniversary, Clearings in the Fog is a program curated by Faraz Anoushapour.

The afternoon begins with MONITOR 15 screenings. Short-form films and videos will be screened by Mani Mazinani (Iran/Canada), Ali Satri Effendi (Indonesia), Abeer Khan (Bombay), Nimisha Srivastava (New Delhi), Nada El-Omari (Canada/Palestine/Egypt), and Paribartana Mohanty (Orissa). The films and videos address themes such as power inequality through intergenerational narratives, violence against women’s bodies, and environmental crises.

Art critic and curator Nancy Adajania (Mumbai) will deliver the event’s keynote talk. Additional speakers include SAVAC curator Abedar Kamgari (Toronto) and MONITOR 15 curator Faraz Anoushapour (Toronto), and filmmakers Nimisha Srivastava, Abeer Khan, Patricia Gruben (Vancouver), video artist Sharlene Bamboat (Montreal), and scholar Sunera Thobani (Vancouver).

Co-convener Sameena Siddiqui says, “The filmmakers in the symposium have used feminist mediated practices, intersectional approaches, and intergenerational dialogue to reflect on pressing issues of systemic structural gender oppression, complexities of lived experiences of women, and resurgence of regressive reproductive debates and rights across the globe.”

“We are thrilled to have a distinguished group of artists and scholars to mark the 15^th anniversary of our media arts symposium as well as the 15^th anniversary of SAVAC’s MONITOR program,” says Co-convener Jordan Strom.

MONITOR 15 Program

• Mani Mazinani (Saw Bells, meditative improvisation of time, sound, motion)
• Ali Satri Efendi (Gelombang Longitudinal, visual poem about shifting landscapes, dreams, solitude)
• Abeer Khan (Child Lock, contemplation on collapsing domestic space with visions of unreachable desires)
• Nimisha Srivastava (Chadariya, intergenerational narratives, spoken through multiple voices to create an interwoven sense-scape addressing abortion, sex selection/female infanticide, and rape)
• Nada El-Omari (from where to where من وين لوين  d’où vers où, series of conversations on power imbalances within languages through dislocated and lost voices)
• Paribartana Mohanty (Rice, Hunger, Sorrow, highlighting the effects of the natural world and climate change on human lives)