FIELDS OF PRESENCE
Wednesday, Sept 11 at 8:15 PM
The Cinematheque
World Premiere! With director Jorge Lozano as guest in attendance!
Director: Jorge Lozano & Briana Sarita Lozano
Toronto/Colombia | 2024 | Spanish with English subtitles | 90 min | Experimental/Documentary
Sliding Scale Tickets:
$13 / $15 / $18 / $21
General ticket + $3 you get the VLAFF Festival Membership! (Membership required)

This poetic experimental documentary is a tribute to my daughter’s multifaceted life, a collaborative reflection intertwining fiction film archives, acting, and photographs to evoke memories and breathe life into moments and events. Her singing serves as a connecting thread, offering parallel interpretations. The film explores events since 1978, employing a non-chronological and non-linear approach, providing a unique artistic perspective. Shot in Colombia, Spain, and Costa Rica, it culminates in Victoria, BC, where she was tragically murdered. However, it focuses on celebrating her life and her essence employing diverse formats, including super 8mm, VHS, Super VHS, 3/4″, 4K HD, Drone 5K video, GoPro, and Instant 360.

Jorge Lozano has been painting and filming, and making videos, sound, performance and installation works since he came to Canada in 1971. He has made over 150 movies—works that live not in-between, but within cultures. His work is a reflection of his personal commitment to epistemological disobedience and the investigation of different ways of thinking, feeling and doing.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
