Age of Abundance
Thursday, June 5 | 8:30 PM | PG
new work by Enrique Pedráza Botero, Drew Durepos & Isaac Brooks, and Hannah Doucet.
Pulling at the thread of desire; lashing at the mechanisms of happiness in the West. Three new works critically engage the average wish and the American dream—wealth, health, and belonging—and ask what’s left when the fantasy fades. Set against the gloss of Miami condos, where newcomers stake their livelihood on the promise of prosperity; the blinkered dogma of Disneyland, where sick kids flock to claim their wishes; and a health food co-op where techno-utopianism runs wild. Ambition, patriotism, and wellness are framed as imperfect ideals with diminishing returns.
*This program is rated PG, and contains rapid movement and flashing light. Total runtime 62 minutes
No se ve desde acá (You Can't See It From Here),
dir. Enrique Pedráza-Botero
2024 | Colombia / United States | 20 | video | Canadian premiere
A spatial exploration of Miami, and the endless pursuit of the American Dream in an era of immigrant mass mobilization, the absurd dominance of wealth and border securocracy.
Fresh Values, dirs. Drew Durepos & Isaac Brooks
2025 | United States | 12 | 16mm on video
In the near future, a struggling urban food co-op adopts AR technology to save their store. The strategy proves too successful.
Wishmaking™, dir. Hannah Doucet
2024 | Canada | 30 | video | World premiere
Stars, green screens, hands, princesses, fruit, magic and candy: within an absurd and colourful landscape, objects are blown up larger-than-life, surfaces condense repeatedly and documentary and constructed imagery co-exist and collide. Wishmaking™ explores illness, fantasy and wish fulfillment through the lens of the artist's own experience receiving a wish trip to Disney World as a child, following two years of treatment for Lymphoma. The film delves deeply into corporate philanthropy, exploring the concept of wishmaking as brand identity, digesting the many ways corporate visual languages co-opt the universal—and potentially radical—gesture of making a wish.