Screenings
Dislocated Visions
Dislocated Visions brings together seven artists who rework the moving image to explore place as a layered and unstable construct shaped by memory, displacement, and the technologies of perception. Moving across Ukraine, Iran, Cape Breton, Mexico City, and the human body itself, these works reveal how histories of rupture and resistance continue to shape how place is seen, sensed, understood, and contested.
Part of Spring 2025
Emilia Beatriz: barrunto
Pleasure Dome co-presents with the Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF) a presentation of UK-based Puerto Rican artist and access worker Emilia Beatriz’s expansive debut feature film barrunto. The screening will open with a short film by Canadian filmmaker Morgan Sears-Williams. The screening will take place in person at the Tranzac Club and be available for viewing online at TQFF.ca.
Part of Spring 2025
New Toronto Works 2024
Pleasure Dome is excited to present the 2024 edition of New Toronto Works, our annual showcase of recent experimental media by artists based in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area. A highlight of our programming year, this screening and roundtable offers a unique opportunity to experience the range, urgency, and innovation emerging from the city’s moving image community.
Part of Fall 2024
Mohanad Yaqubi and Kamal Aljafari
Pleasure Dome co-presents two screenings of experimental work at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival at TIFF Bell Lightbox on September 28-29, 2024. These programs highlight formally inventive and politically urgent works by Palestinian and diasporic artists, offering powerful reflections on memory, resistance, and the aesthetics of liberation.
Part of Fall 2024
Club Classics
Pleasure Dome and the Feminist Recycling Group co-present Club Classics, a night of films from the archive. Join us on November 19 as we reflect on issues related to queerness, gentrification, and access to space in the city. Revisiting works from Toronto’s queer nightlife past, this program invites intergenerational dialogue on how cultural memory is preserved, erased, or remixed.
Part of Fall 2024
Announcements
Call for Submissions: Annual Open Call & New Toronto Works 2025
Pleasure Dome announces that our annual call for submissions is now live! We welcome works to be considered for our open call (short, medium, long films, and expanded media), and for our annual New Toronto Works screening. Please note that in order to be eligible for New Toronto Works 2025, the artist must be based in Toronto or the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and the work must have been made in the 12 months prior to the deadline (completed after March 2024). The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2025 (11:59 pm EST).
Pleasure Dome’s Executive Director Interviewed for Akimbo’s 25th Anniversary
Akimbo is celebrating its 25th anniversary by interviewing arts organizations in the community under a column called “Reflections.” Because Pleasure Dome was Akimbo’s very first client, we marked their first conversation in the series. Pleasure Dome’s Executive Director Lauren Fournier sat down to speak with Akimbo’s Terence Dick about our organization’s history and vision for the future.
Annual General Meeting
NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Members of PLEASURE DOME is called for and will be held ONLINE on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 7:00 pm ET. As our membership, your vote at this meeting is vital to the health of our organization. We hope you will join us.
