Friday, June 17, 2022
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Curated by Jaclyn Quaresma
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Work by Sharlene Bamboat
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This screening was followed by a 40 minute conversation between Sharlene Bamboat and Jaclyn Quaresma
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Images Festival, Toronto
Co-presented by York University School of Art, Media, Performance & Design
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The film includes closed captions that have been rendered creatively, part of Bamboat’s efforts to incorporate accessibility into her practice and to add another layer to the film’s explorations of communication and creative translation.
The Opening Night Film screens on Friday, June 17th at 8:00PM at Innis Town Hall. The screening will include a conversation with the filmmaker and curator, with ASL interpretation.
Images Festival is thrilled to announce its Opening Night Feature: If From Every Tongue it Drips, a new experimental documentary by artist and filmmaker Sharlene Bamboat. Sharelene’s film sensually considers the diasporic tongue as one that is in a constant state of translation, and that translation itself is an act of poetry. With Rekhti poetry at is centre, the film considers the queer body as one that simultaneously resists the colonial narrative and is historically erased from it. Consisting of digital age bric-à-brac, video recordings taken on the mobile devices of the film’s two main subjects are interspersed throughout the film.
If From Every Tongue it Drips is an experimental documentary film that explores questions of distance and proximity, identity, and otherness, through scenes from the daily interactions between two queer women—a poet and a cameraperson— living in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. Made between Scotland, Sri Lanka, and Canada, and connected through languages (Urdu, Tamil, and English), personal and national histories, music, and dance, the film explores subjects both expansively cosmic and intimately close—from quantum superposition to the links between British colonialism and Indian nationalism.
Jaclyn Quaresma 