Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

Event Description

Public Access Collective presents Outer Worlds, an extra-ordinary program that features five experimental IMAX films by Canada’s leading artists: Kelly Richardson, Lisa Jackson, Oliver Husain, Leila Sujir, and Michael Snow. In keeping with the cinematic genre typical of IMAX films—the larger-than-life landscape that forms an outer world beyond the limits of the human sensorium—Outer Worlds explores expanded cinema through various ecologies of the non-human: the forest, lichen, snails, water, and sky. Proposing different worlds of experience and distinct grammars of immersion through a meeting with the camera, the films imagine common worlds by reflecting upon the exigencies of intercultural and interspecies communication, a task that has taken on great urgency in the 21st centu... more...