The Cinematheque

A Crystal That Extends Endlessly Within

Krzysztof Zanussi’s The Structure of Crystal (1969) staged a reunion between two scientist friends as an oscillation between two faces of a crystal: opaque and transparent, finite and infinite, molecular and cosmic, science and philosophy, cold pragmatism and affective poetics, the city and the country. In 1976, a group of Sudanese conceptualists—in their visionary ​“Crystalist Manifesto”—saw reality as ​“a crystal that extends endlessly within.” Films selected for this program share both Zanussi’s and the Crystalists’ intuition, foregrounding procedural operations between different orders of magnitude while endlessly crystallizing surfaces and framing devices as forms of life. —Radek Przedpełski

SOAP
Canada 2024 | Diana de Leyssac | 3 min. | 4.1 MB

Noise Study 02 (Compressed)
USA 2024 | Rachel Efruss | 3 min. | 1.5 MB

ONEIROS
Canada 2023 | Tyler Nykilchyk | 4 min. | 4.7 MB

Underpass Dream for Pillar 13
United Kingdom 2024 | Bernard Stolnitski | 4 min. | 4.4 MB

Nihelious
Ukraine 2017 | Yuri Yefanov | 11 min. | 14 MB

Walking Through a Nile Codex
Egypt 2021–24 | Mena El Shazly, Omnia Sabry | 6 min. | 7.3 MB

Inter-frame Allegations
Austria 2024 | Georg Eckmayr | 3 min. | 3.4 MB

Where No One Else Can See
Lebanon 2024 | Nasri Sayegh | 6 min. | 8 MB

Webb
Canada 2024 | Chad Townsend | 3 min. | 4.2 MB

—intermission—

The Spectre Is the Future

The films in this series are hazy diaries and fragmented pixel-visions, a collection of personal and political dispatches that linger like spectral remnants from another life. They reveal presents haunted by memory, shaped by what has been lost and what never came to be. —Joni Schinkel

Recuardo
Iran 2024 | Aida Hashemi | 4 min. | 5.3 MB

Papa Is in the Garden Excerpt
Canada 2021 | MilleFeuille | 5 min. | 6.6 MB

TAT—Experimental Political Animation
United Kingdom 2024 | Dominic Todd | 5 min. | 3.2 MB

notes on sanity
Lebanon 2022 | Mahdi Awada | 7 min. | 7.5 MB

The Persistence
Canada 2024 | Victoria Zhuang | 1 min. | 1.4 MB

Heart Rate
Canada 2024 | Jelena Markovic | 3 min. | 4.4 MB

Lifeline
Canada 2024 | Anne Maureen McKeating | 3 min. | 4.6 MB

Liquid Snake Dance
Greece 2024 | Ioannis Karalis | 2 min. | 1.2 MB

Forgetting Films
USA 2024 | Zebulon Zang | 2 min. | 1.4 MB

Candid(e)
Canada 2024 | Darren Dominique Heroux | 3 min. | 3 MB

Brackish
USA 2023 | Vincent DeZutti | 5 min. | 5 MB

Still Creek
Canada 2024 | Ian Prentice | 8 min. | 9 MB

In corpus
Spain 2023 | Ignacio Rodó | 3 min. | 4.2 MB

:\Eclipsed
United Kingdom 2015 | Nicole Baker Peterson | 3 min. | 3.9 MB