Pleasure Dome and Bleeding Edge present a screening of works by Toronto-based filmmaker Kalil Haddad at Innis Town Hall on October 28, which includes the world premiere of his brand new film Victim of Circumstance (2024).
Part of Fall 2024
Pleasure Dome and the Feminist Recycling Group co-present Club Classics, a night of films from the archive. Join us on November 20 as we reflect on issues related to queerness, gentrification, and access to space at Cinecycle.
Part of Fall 2024
Pleasure Dome is pleased to announce the 2024 edition of New Toronto Works. This annual screening is highly-anticipated and for good reason: when else do you have the opportunity to spend an evening relishing in brand new work made in the past year by artists from Toronto and the GTA? The screening will be followed by an in-person roundtable and Q&A with the artists.
Part of Fall 2024
Pleasure Dome co-presents two screenings of experimental work at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival at TIFF Bell Lightbox on September 28-29, 2024.
Part of Fall 2024
Pleasure Dome is pleased to present the Toronto premiere of non-binary artist Jonni Peppers’s five-part film WASTELAND. Created while Peppers was a student in experimental animation at CalArts, the film explores takes upĀ isolation, mental illness, and the subjective perceptions of reality in the context of the 2020s. Guest curated by Justyne Benico and Jacob Crepeault.
Part of Spring 2024
Pleasure Dome is pleased to co-present the Toronto screening of Juma Pariri’s film Pe ataju jumali/Hot Air (Ar Quente). This is the Canadian premiere of the Indigenous artist’s experimental short film. This event is presented in partnership with OCAD Graduate Studies and York University’s Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts & Technology, the Centre for Feminist Research, and the Hemispheric Encounters Network. Reception with Juma Pariri to follow.
Part of Fall 2023
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 spoke to Terence Dick about our organization’s history and vision for the future.
Pleasure Dome now welcomes submissions for New Toronto Works 2024. The artist must be based in Toronto or the Greater Toronto Area, and the work (experimental film and moving-image work) must have been made in the last 12 months (no earlier than March 2023). The deadline for submissions is April 26, 2024 (11:59 pm EST).
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, December 13, 2023 at 7:00 pm (ET) via Zoom. As our membership, your vote at this meeting is vital to the health of our organization. We hope you will join us.
We commissioned four local artists, writers, and filmmakers from our recent Digital Now e-book project, Renata Azevedo Moreira, Dhvani Ramanujam, Cody Rooney, and Fan Wu, to respond in creative ways to Pleasure Dome’s spring and summer 2023 in-person screenings. You can read their responses here.