DocNow 2024 - June 7th
Join us for a showcase of innovative documentary storytelling, courtesy of the Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media program at TMU.
This edition of Doc Now gathers eight gazes that converge in a space where they interrogate ways of storytelling, and emmanate in different directions towards the peripheral to find paths that consider and care for the protagonists and participants of the stories. By gazing towards the intimate, the communal, the imaginary, and the real, we respond to a narrative practice that aims to alter affects, and rethink stories that incite a change in the real world. As storytellers, narrators, and creators of images, sounds and texts, we’re interweaved by a responsibility towards the ways we represent our realities and those of others, and the creative potential to find other ways of conceiving what’s real.
Programming:
Hacer Hogar by Pablo Rincon-Diaz
Hacer Hogar is a documentary that gathers six Colombian immigrants living in Toronto and interweaves their reflections on the meaning of home and place-making by portraying six vignettes containing their voices as they build a metaphorical home through their artistic practices.
A Blurry Night by Haoyu Wang
A Blurry Night is a hybrid documentary that combines nonfiction and fiction about two futuristic robots who recall the memory of several young filmmakers in the past who remembered their college filmmaking life, their last night’s film showing, and the cinema theater where they screened their last films.
Her Street Market by Marina Zhang
Her Street Market, is an ethnographic documentary film. It describes the enormous influence of the street market on the local lives of the Bai ethnic group, in the context of accelerating urbanization in southwestern China. The film targets those interested in culture, ethnic minority lifestyles, and homeland changes.
Join us for a showcase of innovative documentary storytelling, courtesy of the Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media program at TMU.
This edition of Doc Now gathers eight gazes that converge in a space where they interrogate ways of storytelling, and emmanate in different directions towards the peripheral to find paths that consider and care for the protagonists and participants of the stories. By gazing towards the intimate, the communal, the imaginary, and the real, we respond to a narrative practice that aims to alter affects, and rethink stories that incite a change in the real world. As storytellers, narrators, and creators of images, sounds and texts, we’re interweaved by a responsibility towards the ways we represent our realities and those of others, and the creative potential to find other ways of conceiving what’s real.
Programming:
Hacer Hogar by Pablo Rincon-Diaz
Hacer Hogar is a documentary that gathers six Colombian immigrants living in Toronto and interweaves their reflections on the meaning of home and place-making by portraying six vignettes containing their voices as they build a metaphorical home through their artistic practices.
A Blurry Night by Haoyu Wang
A Blurry Night is a hybrid documentary that combines nonfiction and fiction about two futuristic robots who recall the memory of several young filmmakers in the past who remembered their college filmmaking life, their last night’s film showing, and the cinema theater where they screened their last films.
Her Street Market by Marina Zhang
Her Street Market, is an ethnographic documentary film. It describes the enormous influence of the street market on the local lives of the Bai ethnic group, in the context of accelerating urbanization in southwestern China. The film targets those interested in culture, ethnic minority lifestyles, and homeland changes.