Epitaph will have its Canadian premiere at Antimatter [Media Art], October 15-25, 2026 in Victoria, Canada.
Antimatter is one of Canada’s most prestigious film festivals for experimental film, video, audio and time-based art.
When personal histories become embedded within broader temporal and geographic dimensions, images and their localities may be understood as media that render the past visible—a testimony to existence itself. In Epitaph, Cecilia Araneda returns to her long-estranged homeland, eco-processing 16mm film with leaves and fruit gathered around her ancestral home. The flickering, scratched celluloid of its decaying house becomes a medium of invocation, a spectral device that conjures memory. Together with archival and found materials, it weaves a lament for her family’s past and the vanishing landscapes of home. / Beijing International Short Film Festival Read more…