Thursday, July 7, 2021
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Curated by Jaclyn Quaresma and Marifel Catalig
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Work by Erika DeFreitas, Joie Estrella Horwitz, Xiaolu Wang, Min-Wei Ting
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Marifel Catalig, co-curator, breathworker and end-of-life guide, leads the audience through a breath program designed for and responding to the films in this screening
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Images Festival, Toronto

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Rebellious Flesh is the result of a years long collaboration between Jaclyn Quaresma and Breath and Death Guide, Marifel Catalig. Films by Xiaolu Wang, Joie Estrella Horwitz, Min-Wei Ting, and Erika DeFreitas contemplate the relationship one has with death, mourning, fear, and grief, as well as the mystical possibilities of the thresholds between breath and body, youth and their elders, the living and those who have passed. Throughout the screening, Marifel will host collective meditation on breath with the in-cinema audience.

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List of Works

祝你中秋快乐 – I Wish You Happy Moon Festival
Xiaolu Wang
CANADIAN PREMIERE | USA | 2021 | DIGITAL | 2 MIN |
MANDARIN (WITH MANDARIN AND ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
One overseas phone call, but one phrase was lost to the receiver
of the call.

Green Turns Brown
Joie Estrella Horwitz
CANADIAN PREMIERE | USA | 2021 | SUPER8>DIGITAL | 6 MIN | ENGLISH
Green Turns Brown is a sensory eulogy to the late artist Luchita Hurtado.
Shot several months before the artist’s passing, the Super 8 film explores
her oscillation between visibility and invisibility as a female painter
mirrored in her observations on mortality and its connection to the duality she found in the natural world. It is an encounter with Hurtado’s final
contemplation on what she called, “the border between life and death”

You’re Dead to Me
Min-Wei Ting
SINGAPORE | 2014 | DIGITAL | 14 MIN | NO DIALOGUE
The short film takes us to Bukit Brown cemetery and into the verdant
forest in which it lies, shortly before men and machines arrive to tear
through it. By trailing a solitary character who roams the land and
communes with the dead, the film serves as an elegy to a richly layered site
on the verge of rupture.

to be close and to be chosen
Erika DeFreitas
CANADIAN PREMIERE | USA | 2021 | SUPER8>DIGITAL | 6 MIN | ENGLISH
At a time when Erika DeFreitas was inundated with a mental image of
herself repeatedly drawing a circle, she performed her vision and captured it on camera. In this video, Erika is engaged in an intuitive act,
one that is meditative and trance-like, and that allows her to access a
wider state of consciousness creating a portal to someone in the spirit
world, or perhaps an alternative space.

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