OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION
MAY 22ND, 6 PM - 7 PM AT CINÉMA DU MUSÉE
Come to meet fellow cinema lovers while enjoying free refreshments before our opening screenings!
Seats are limited on a first come, first served basis.
RSVP required.
TICKETS TO OPENING NIGHTKOREAN CLASSIC ANIMATIONS
In partnership with Korean Film Archive (KOFA), the 12th KFFC 2025 offers a selection of outstanding animated films, shorts and features, made by Korean directors from 1980 to 2012. This selection is made with free accessible films on YouTube offered by KOFA. This curated selection invites you to experience how Korean animators uniquely explore themes of body and identity - blurring the lines between fantasy, dreams and reality in perfect alignment with this year's theme: Arts & Technologies: Sleep, Dream, Body.
WATCH ONLINE FOR FREEAEW MEDIA ARTS
Arts East-West (AEW) presents Gina Kim’s immersive XR and VR trilogy and Montreal artist Crystal Chan’s interactive audio odyssey, in which technology reshapes memory, trauma, and the diasporic body.
Gina Kim
Retrospective: Comfortless Trilogy
This VR storytelling exhibition is part of Gina Kim's "Comfortless Trilogy", which includes a three-part VR film—“Bloodless” (2017, 12 min), “Tearless” (2021, 12 min), and “Comfortless” (2023, 16 min). The trilogy explores the history of US military camp towns in South Korea, aligning with Arts East-West's mission to bridge East and West by showcasing marginalized voices. It embraces technology to foster cultural and artistic discourse, both nationally and globally.
Bloodless (2017), which depicts the last day of a sex worker murdered by a U.S. soldier in South Korea in 1992, won the Best VR Story Award at the 74th Venice International Film Festival, the Best VR Film Award at the 58th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, and Best VR Short Film at the 15th Bogotá Short Film Festival.
Tearless (2020) premiered at the Venice Film Festival and won the Best Immersive Work Award at the Geneva International Film Festival.
Comfortless (2023), supported by the Korean Creative Content Agency, Jeonju International Film Festival, UCLA Faculty Research Grant, and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, also premiered at Venice and will be showcased at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea.
All three pieces have garnered international acclaim, leading to retrospectives at prominent venues around the world, including the Korean Film Archive, Seoul International Women’s Film Festival, and CinemAsia Film Festival in Amsterdam, among others.
Crystal ChanEighty Thousand Steps (2023, 19 min for first episode) is an interactive audio journey exploring memory, family, and migration through the real experiences of Asian Canadians reconnecting with their cross-border identities. Through innovative and thought-provoking approaches, Chan's work invites viewers to reflect on the complexities of belonging and representation in a globalized world.
Created in collaboration between Stitch Media and Crystal Chan, as one of eight projects selected for the CBC/Canada Council of the Arts Creation Accelerator Program.
2024 Signal Awards Finalist for Most Innovative Audio Experience and Best Experimental Podcast.
Tickets are $15 + taxes: purchase on Eventbrite or at the door!
In partnership with Goethe-Institut Montréal and Ada X.
*RSVP is appreciated. Tickets will also be sold at the door.
Please note that donations are optional and do not replace the purchase of a ticket—entry will only be granted to attendees with a valid ticket.
DIY DIRECTORS' FACTORY
The DIY First Time Filmmakers initiative supports emerging directors and artists creating their first independent works made by an individual or a collective, and curating collective showcases as part of our AEW Ecology. AEW Ecology’s mission is to develop the artistic growth of emerging and first time filmmakers and artists.
This program emphasizes networking while creators and participants have total freedom to independently curate, develop and present their works created entirely with their own resources in the spirit of "Do It Yourself."
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