Oct. 29 – Nov. 7, 2021
Presented by Rendezvous for Madness, NFB, and Pleasure Dome.
JOIN THE CONVERSATION: What Everyone Gets Q&A Thursday, November 4, 5-630 PM ET with artists in attendance where the prompt is death and all the grief that comes with less life; moderated by Lee Henderson a Toronto-based artist and educator who’s practice investigates association networks of human intellectual-emotional investment, more commonly known as “meaning.”
Part of Fall 2021
Presented by Rendezvous for Madness Festival, NFB, and Pleasure Dome.
JOIN THE CONVERSATION: What Everyone Gets Q&A Thursday, November 4, 5-630 PM ET with artists in attendance where the prompt is death and all the grief that comes with less life; moderated by Lee Henderson a Toronto-based artist and educator who’s practice investigates association networks of human intellectual-emotional investment, more commonly known as “meaning.”
What Everyone Gets features Thanadoula (Robin McKenna) and Season of Goodbyes (Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann) who intimately grapple with the loss of a loved one, and engage on a journey of mourning and paying homage to the dearly departed. Digital Traces (April Lin) explores the circulation of death in digital spaces, informing contemporary practices of mourning, and expressing grief. Similarly, She’s Not Gonna Get More Dead (ariella tai) consists of excerpts of Black women vampires appearing in commercial media and highlights Black femininity being constrained within the realms of invisibility and hypervisibility. Three Metres and a Few Centimetres (Mostafa Salehi Nezhad) portrays the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ahvaz, Iran, as “dead-washers” volunteer at a cemetery to cleanse and prepare the corpses of deceased persons for burial in accordance with Islamic customs and ritual. You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born (Duke and Battersby) is a fictional portrait that tenderly balances loss, grief, and humour, and embraces the definite truths of life (such as death) as what makes a life worth living.
Image credit: Three Meters, Mostafa Salehi Nezhad (Iran, 2020)
This is an online event only.
The Rendezvous with Madness Festival is the first and largest arts and mental health festival in the world. Using art as the entry point to illuminate and investigate the realities and mythologies surrounding mental illness and addiction, Rendezvous With Madness’ 2021 programming spotlights the human capacity for endurance in the face of great challenges. We invite you to Join the Conversation on social media using the hashtags #RWMFest21 and #RWMFest.
The National Film Board of Canada is Canada’s public film and digital media producer and distributor.
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