Is there a Latin Canadian cinema? Is there one or a handful of core influences or aesthetics that bind a diasporic Latin Canadian film and video movement?

From 2019 to 2021, I will be engaging in a national curatorial research project to uncover, contemplate and reflect on these questions and issues that spoke out from them, with a eye towards developing new programming focused in individual career surveys, aesthetic groupings, and the wider look at Latin Canadian cinema in all the complexities this notion evokes.

Image credit: Traje de Luces (2018) by Franci Duran

ARTISTS INTERVIEWED
(list in progress)

  • Pablo Álvarez Mesa – Colombia / Montreal
  • Samay Arcentales Cajas – Ecuador / Toronto
  • Guillermina Buzio – Argentina / Toronto
  • so Jin Chun – Korea / Bolivia / Toronto
  • Franci Duran – Chile / Toronto
  • Alexandra Gelis – Colombia / Toronto
  • María Teresa Larraín – Chile / Toronto
  • Jorge Lozano – Colombia / Toronto
  • Jean-Pierre Marchant – Argentina / Chile / Toronto
  • Julieta María – Colombia / Toronto
  • Eduardo Menz – Chile / Montreal
  • Claudia Molina – Venezuela / Colombia / Vancouver
  • Claudia Morgado Escanilla – Chile / Vancouver
  • Gio Olmos – Mexico / Montreal 
  • Madi Piller – Peru / Toronto
  • Carlo Guillermo Proto – Chile / Montreal
  • Lina Rodriguez – Colombia / Toronto
  • Milena Salazar – Costa Rica / Vancouver
  • Malena Szlam – Argentina / Chile / Montreal
  • Ingrid Vargas – Colombia / Calgary

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This curatorial research project has been made possible through the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts