top of page

Image: Coconut/Cane & Cutlass (1994) by Michelle Mohabeer

In her lush, intricately constructed works, Gariné Torossian explores film form, hybrid film and video technologies, and themes of belonging, identity and the body. “Mining a rich palette of colours and textures, superimpositions and dissolves, mixing formats of Super 8, 35mm and video, [she] creates films that bridge the gaps between visual art, sound art, cinema and the rock video” (Lux Distribution).

 

Study guide includes an essay by Ian Balfour, York University.

 

1) Visions

2) Girl from Moush

3) Drowning in Flames

4) Pomegranate Tree        

5) Sparklehorse             

6) Babies on the Sun

7) Shadowy Encounters      

8) Hypnotize/Mezmerize - System of a Down

 

Torossian’s style of filmmaking draws attention to the most basic component of her work, the strip of film, the celluloid on which images are laid to be projected. She alters the photographed images, transforming them into other objects; she juxtaposes them; and she makes them move outside the original photographed movement in ways that create a kind of rich collage, suggesting another dimension to the moving images with which she began... This Spotlight compilation is highly recommended for academic areas dealing with women in art and film as well as art history and film studies.”

—Oksana Dykyj, Educational Media Reviews Online

Gariné Torossian (Artist Spotlight Series)

C$50.00Price
  • Artist(s)
    Gariné Torossian

     

    Year
    2006

     

    Runtime
    79 min

     

    Language
    English

     

    Publisher
    Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

Product Page: Stores_Product_Widget

TERRITORY & SOLIDARITY: The daily work of CFMDC takes place in Tkaronto (Toronto) which is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaty signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands. We also acknowledge The Dish with One Spoon treaty between the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee that covers the land of what is now called southern Ontario. We work with the knowledge of the importance of recognition of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the four First Nations Principles of OCAP®. As a Media Arts organization we draw your attention to the work of the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition (NIMAC). As part of  anti-colonial solidarity, CFMDC board and staff proudly commits to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). Calls to support PACBI and the wider Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) come from Palestinian civil society and are grassroots strategies opposing the colonization of Palestine by directly targeting complicity.

  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

209 - 401 Richmond Street West  

 Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8

  416-588-0725

LOGOS

ON_POS_LOGO_BLACK_RGB.png
bottom of page