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We are excited to announce that Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie's portrait of film poet, animator and artist Rick Raxlen, THINK BEFORE YOU THINK, will screen Wednesday June 24 2026 8pm at PIX FILM Gallery 1411 Dufferin Street Unit C, Toronto.

“Perfectly captures Rick as he is now, yet with deep intimations of earlier times, creating a tender and deeply moving portrait...The essential human need to externalize our felt experience throughout our lives is what stays with me, together with the metaphors on light, and suggests much about resilience and being true. A really beautiful film.” —Marilyn Brakhage, Film archivist/writer/curator.

A short program of animated works by Rick Raxlen including Geometry of Beware, Seahorses and Flying Fish, Kanga vs Werewolf, Fish Don't Talk and Deadpan will accompany this screening.

More info at pixfilm.ca/events

@pixfilmgallery #experimentalfilm#handmadeanimation#artistportrait @theirisfilmers #irisfilmcollective#alexmackenzie#thinkbeforeyouthink#rickraxlen

DIM Cinema Notes in Origin: The Films of Ellie Epp June 15 (Monday) 7pm

“What I like in film is precision, slightness, economy of means, delight, inference, and a kind of motion that can be followed but not tagged, and makes seeing intelligent.” —Ellie Epp

A near-mythic voice in North American art cinema, Ellie Epp has created a moving, rigorous, and immersive body of work. The Iris Film Collective is thrilled to present this retrospective featuring Epp’s four 16mm films (1975–1996) in new digital restorations and five more recent digital video works never before shown in Vancouver. Epp’s meticulously minimalist films invite a lyrical looking and seeing, listening and hearing. Each work is an instrument of perceptual and philosophical inquiry, an encounter with fleeting and feeling moments.

The screening will be introduced by programmer Alex MacKenzie, Iris Film Collective.

Limited edition postcards will be available at the screening highlighting Ellie Epp’s monograph — film, writing, theory, interviews, comment, notes: ellieepp.com/monograph/ellieepp29MB.pdf

FILMS: trapline • Canada/ UK 1975 • 18 min. current • Canada 1986 • 2 min. notes in origin • Canada 1987 • 15 min. bright & dark • Canada/ USA 1996 • 3 min. by the lotus • Canada/ USA 2013 • 3 min. here • Canada/ USA 2013 • 3 min. ocean beach pier three movements • Canada/ USA 2013 • 8 min. pale hill • Canada/ USA 2013 • 6 min. last light • Canada/ USA 2013 • 7 min.

@thecinematheque @theirisfilmers #vancouver #movietheatre #cinema #ellieepp

Iris Film Collective are looking forward to Nisha Platzer’s film ‘back home’ to be screened at Close-Up Cinema, in London

97 Sclater Street, London, UK.

Join Nisha for a screening of her award-winning film, ‘back home’ followed by a Q&A session.

Close-Up makes film culture and history accessible through its cinema programmes and Library. Established in 2005, Close-Up is the most comprehensive independent film resource in London.

More Info and tickets: https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/.../back-home-qanda.../

#closeupcinema#backhome#canadiancinema#londonfilms#irisfilmcollective

Basement Films annual Experiments in Cinema festival is happening at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque April 16-19, 2026 and we are excited to have Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie's film Quoindust making its US premiere. Highlights at the festival include a retrospective of works by Dominic Angerame, Korean films from the EXiS festival, Queer cinema from Way Out West, and much more. A free version of the event will be available through their website (www.experimentsincinema.org) April 28-May10.

#experimentsincinema#irisfilmcollective#albuquerquecinema#experimentalcinema

Iris Film Collective member Amanda Thomson talks about her practice and picks a couple songs for Optical Track on www.dublab.com, Tues Feb 10th at 8pm PST. Tune in!

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DIM CINEMA at the Cinematheque!

January 26 (Monday) 7:00 pm

AGGREGATE SQUISH: KASPER FEYRER & KARA DITTE HANSEN 70 min.

Filmmakers in Attendance

If a “night at the movies” had a body, this program of works by Kasper Feyrer and Kara Ditte Hansen would strangely depict some of its organs. With the intention of convening and celebrating recent or rare works by two frequent off-screen collaborators, community builders, and beloved local weirdos, “Aggregate Squish” brings together their complementary practices on 16mm as a playful corpus of cinema.

@maybe_juju@deetaah@steffbao #TheCinematheque#vancouver#movietheatre#cinema

Iris member Nisha Platzer at the Eastside Culture Crawl!

Nisha Platzer @melodiousimagefilm presents her short film echo / corpus as part of MOVING ART: Unity and joins the TALKING ART online panel this Wednesday Nov. 5th! (see below)

MOVING ART A program of short films

Online Premiere: Nov 6 @ 6pm 🔗 culturecrawl.ca/events/moving-art-5-senses-4-elements

See echo / corpus and other films Nov 6–30 at: • Alternative Creations Gallery (1659 Venables St) during Gallery hours: Mon–Fri 10–2 and during Crawl Hours: Nov 20–23 → Th/F 5–10pm | Sa/Su 10–6

Opening Reception: Nov 6 | 6–8pm

• East Van Vodville Cinema — Nov 16–23 (on-demand 24/7) • Lumiere Festival — Nov 13–16 (location TBD)

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💬 TALKING ART: Collective Perspectives in Analog Film 🎙 Featuring Nisha Platzer & Isaac Forsland @xin3ma 🗓 Nov 5 @ 7pm (online) watch here:🔗 culturecrawl.ca/events/talking-art-collaboration-craft-and-the-art-of-cross-disciplinary-creation

#EastsideCultureCrawl #MovingArt #EchoCorpus #TalkingArt #IrisFilmCollective #FilmArt #AnalogueFilm #VancouverArtists #SupportArtists #NishaPlatzer #IsaacForsland #Xinema #16mm #exquisitecorpse

DIM CINEMA presents:

Ways of Seeing: short short films by Gordon Payne

Monday November 3, 7:00pm The Cinematheque

Payne attempts to counter the ordinary attraction that exists between art and its audience. Complex though that attraction may be, it is dominated by the spectator’s interest in affirmative content and soothing surfaces. —Bill Jeffries, Gordon Payne’s Painting: 1986–1990

A quiet pulse moves beneath the flicker as dots dissolve in hypnotic cascades, opening a liminal space where perception sways and shifts. Gordon Payne’s three short films, made in the late 1960s and early ’70s, unfold as tactile meditations on vision, ritual, and the restless politics of seeing. Formally rigorous yet sensuous, these 16mm works ripple with otherworldly energy—a subtle resistance lodged in light, shadow, and rhythm. Payne moved to Hornby Island and returned to painting shortly after these films were made, carrying forward the spectral rhythms of these celluloid fragments, where memory, myth, and consciousness quietly intertwine. Screening from prints held in The Cinematheque’s West Coast Film Archive, with Negotiating a New Canadian Constitution generously loaned by the Belkin Gallery, this rare program offers a glimpse into a little-seen yet resonant thread of Canadian experimental film. —Nisha Platzer, Iris Film Collective

The screening will be followed by a poetry reading by collaborator Lionel Kearns and a virtual Q&A with Payne.

Tantra I Canada 1969 Gordon Payne 8 min. 16mm

Negotiating a New Canadian Constitution Canada 1973 Gordon Payne 3 min. 16mm

Birth of God Mandala Canada 1973 Gordon Payne 4 min. 16mm

Art Island: Gordon Payne Canada 2024 Zsofin Sheehy 15 min. Digital

more info: thecinematheque.ca/films/2025/gordon-payne

#gordonpayne #irisfilmcollective #dimcinema #thecinematheque

Antimatter is just around the corner!

We are happy to have Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie’s film QUOINDUST featured for its North American premiere amongst an incredible roster of works this year.

Canada’s premier presenter of moving image art—Antimatter [media art]—features 130+ films in-person and online, beginning on October 16, as well as free public installations and Automat, an ongoing online series of unique, commissioned self portraits by participating filmmakers. Originating from 36 countries, the majority of festival offerings are world, North American or Canadian premieres.

More at Antimatter.ca

#irisfilmcollective #16mm #alexmackenzie #antimatter #Quoindust #16mmfilm #experimental film #analog cinema

Don’t miss these upcoming screenings from Iris Film Collective member Lindsay McIntyre:

Tuktuit : Caribou (2025) is screening in Winnipeg at WNDX on Friday October 3, at 7:00 PM at the Rachel Browne Theatre as part of the shorts program All Our Arms Have Held. You can also see In the Backyarden (2015) as part of WNDX's Prairie Retrospective: Something is Calling You on October 4th at 1:00 pm.

Catch One Duck Down (2025) at VIFF in Memory & Mediation (shorts program 2) on Saturday, October 4th at 8:30 pm or Sunday, October 5th at 6:15 pm at International Village 7.

And if you happen to be in London... Check out Tuktuit : Caribou (2025) screening at BFI's London Film Festival in the shorts program Cadences of Refusal on Saturday, October 18th 2025 at 4:00 pm at ICA, Screen 1

@VIFF #VIFF @WNDX #WNDX

@tiny_moving_pictures @britishfilminstitute #LFF

Screening this Sunday, Sept. 14th 8:45pm at International Village as a part of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival is Scorpionikas: countermanifesto, a cross-continental multi-format film by Bruna Kury, Matheus Mello and Iris Film Collective member Nisha Platzer.

In a fusion of manifesto and performance, “Scorpionikas” crosses three continents to follow an insurgent collective—trans women, sex workers, and racialized and gender non-conforming voices — as they confront to dismantle the colonial and patriarchal systems that oppress them. Through radical acts of resistance, captivating performances, and intimate interviews, the film intertwines their stories with haunting archival footage: from the brothels of the Klondike Gold Rush in the 1890s to the heart of 1990s Brazil, and a convent turned art center of 2024s Barcelona.

more info and tiks: https://outonscreen.com/vqff-event/shorts-tease-me-please-me/

Also Streaming Online in BC Sept 22-28

We are very happy and excited to have Iris Film Collective member films by Sidney Gordon (Ashes to Ashes) and Lindsay McIntyre (Tuktuit : Caribou) featured at CROSSROADS 2025 August 29-31, the sixteenth manifestation of SF Cinematheque’s annual film festival. CROSSROADS 2025 features works of film, video and performance by 47 artists representing 20 countries and territories presented in 8 curated programs.

Be sure to hit it if you are in the Bay Area!

The Wandering Images and Sound Residency has just wrapped in Montsoreau and Turquant, France, with twelve artists from around the world participating, including Iris Film Collective’s Alex MacKenzie.

Huge thanks to Mire, the Montsoreau Castle Museum of Contemporary Art and Aurore Besson Studio for the use and access to their spaces, and to all the artists and organizers for making this an unforgettable experience.

#mire_nantes #chateaumontsoreau #aurorebessonart #theirisfilmers #filmisnotdead #expandedcinema #loire #saumur #experimentalcinema

More EuroCineAktion!

Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie will be presenting Quoindust, a new work, @closeupcinema in London (UK) on July 4 as a part of their 20th anniversary celebrations, along with a brilliant roster of filmmakers who have shown here in the past. If in London…

Also, on July 5th Alex will be presenting work with the SPECTRAL Wandering Images and Sound group at the @festival_obskura_ in Rennes (France), and then they are off to a residency in the castles and troglodyte caves in nearby Montsereau…. @mire_nantes

First two photos Alex MacKenzie, third photo @amoraafoto

We are pleased to announce Iris Film Collective member Amanda Thomson is a current artist in residence at @baltic_analog_lab in Riga, Latvia.

“Although Riga has completely charmed me, I'm not one to shoot in the city. So it's been great to take a short train ride to explore the surrounding areas; the Ķemeri Bog, Sloka Lake and the beach at Jūrmala. Each has its own distinct ecosystem and they're all so close, not only to the city but to each other.”

A work-in-progress screening will take place on Saturday, June 28 at 19:00, on the 2nd floor of Baltic Analog Lab, Lienes iela 19a, Riga. www.balticanaloglab.lv

Photo: Armands Andže (@armands_a), 18x24 paper negative.

v=d/t

We are pleased to announce Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie is featured in the Deluge Gallery show v=d/t running June 20-July 19 2024.

v=d/t [velocity equals distance over time]

Rebecca Barten | Michael Bucuzzo Alex MacKenzie | Julia Petrocelli

JUNE 20 TO JULY 19, 2025

A program of artists’ moving image works engaging with concepts of escape velocity: traceries of transition, anticipation of arrival, preempting the past. In a period of perpetual fright, these four films choose flight—kidnapping themselves through documents of departure and manifest motion. Abstracted tarmac markings and highway residue join hijacked collage and appropriated advertising: runways and runaways in search of time and distance from the everyday world.

Dusk to dawn in the gallery transom window and 24/7 at deluge.ca.

In the work of Washington-based filmmaker, curator, and farmer Linda Fenstermaker, we soon recognize in this collection of impressionistic 1

Iris Film Collective in collaboration with the DIM collective and The Cinematheque

present:

FADING LANDSCAPES: THE FILMS OF LINDA FENSTERMAKER - May 26, 2025 @ 7pm at the Cinematheque

Today's world is very loud, almost maliciously overstimulating, with an ever-increasing inclination to separate us sapiens from our bodies and the natural world. To encourage and elevate singular moments of connection, then, may be seen as defiance. While that might not be the first descriptor used for the work of Washington-based filmmaker, curator, and farmer Linda Fenstermaker, we soon recognize in this collection of impressionistic 16mm films that quiet connection is the point—and that the slow persistence of nature is subtly revolutionary. Through her focus on organic food systems and empowered women, Fenstermaker explores interactions and relationships between body and landscape. Iris Film Collective is proud to resurrect this Vancouver screening of “Fading Landscapes,” an event originally scheduled for March 2020. However, in a manner reminiscent of the pastoral subjects of Fenstermaker's lens, patience is rewarded by harvest, and in due course we receive the bounty of these films. —Iris Film Collective

Abandoned Generations USA 2015 | Linda Fenstermaker | 10 min. Digital

Tri-Alogue #3 USA 2017 | Caryn Cline, Linda Fenstermaker, Reed O'Beirne | 3 min. Digital

Here I Breathe USA 2017 | Linda Fenstermaker | 8 min. Digital

Trahere USA 2018 | Caryn Cline, Linda Fenstermaker | 4 min. Digital

Erased Etchings USA 2017 | Linda Fenstermaker | 9 min. Digital

Partial USA 2016 | Linda Fenstermaker | 7 min. Digital

Sometimes All of Summertime USA 2019 | Linda Fenstermaker | 9 min. Digital

Bitch Island USA 2017 | Linda Fenstermaker | 3 min. DigitalMAY 26 (MONDAY) 7:00PM

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