The Cinematheque

The Red Room: Particles of Love and Resistance

The companion to Friday’s ​“Blue Room” program, ​“The Red Room” distills material from small-file film workshops held in Bangladesh, Canada, Egypt, Mexico, and Iran. Diving head-first into quantum dislocations and confronting us with critical visions of cities fractured by power, ​“The Red Room” is punctuated by particle eruptions, transmitting tectonic shifts and haunted reveries. Critical, abrasive, and outspoken, this program incites, spins, and shouts, spewing quantum chaos and puncturing clichés. —Mena El Shazly & Radek Przedpełski

Program runtime: 58 min.

This Film Must Be Approved | Canada 2024 | James Sun | 11 min. 14 MB

Out for a Walk with Waste | Mexico 2024 | Efraín Cervantes | 2 min. 2.51 MB

Apokatastasis | Mexico 2024 | David de la Rosa | 2 min. 2.35 MB

Since the Age of Nine the World is Rotten with Sanity | Mexico 2024 | El Milagro | 5 min. 9.91 MB

Red Balloon | Iran 2025 | Hossein Qamooshi | 3 min. 3.29 MB

Dream | Iran 2025 | Masoumeh Khodabakhshi | 2 min. 1.55 MB

Dualities of a City | Egypt 2024 | Noura A. Rahman | 2 min. 0.92 MB

temporarily closed | Mexico 2024 | Paulina López | 5 min. 6.33 MB

Hole Dreams | Iran 2025 | Arya Mehr | 2 min. 3.07 MB

Echo of Imagination | Egypt 2024 | Nada Qasem | 1 min. 1.96 MB

A Poem | Iran 2025 | Tina Taghavi | 2 min. 2.97 MB

Syzyf | Egypt 2024 | Ibrahim Rabie | 3 min. 4.7 MB

witch | Mexico 2024 | Catalina Pérez | 1 min. 1.66 MB

Four Fundamental Concepts | Egypt 2024 | George Bartlett | 5 min. 7.51 MB

The Ahuehuete Trees of Chapultepec Forest | Mexico 2024 | Diandra Arriaga | 4 min. 5.6 MB

Looking for Cairo | Egypt 2024 | Rasia Yusuf | 5 min. 7.16 MB

Fragmentation /ˌfræɡ.menˈteɪ.ʃən/ | Iran 2025 | Elahe Shamlou | 3 min. 4.75 MB

—intermission—

Compagnons du devoir

Featuring a cohort of those nearest and dearest to the small-file spirit, this special program invites cherished allies and alumni to elevate ecomedia with ingenuity and purpose, screening experiments and original works that resonate far beyond their digital footprint. Keep an eye on small​file​.ca and @smallfile as we tease the lineup this fall. —Joni Schinkel

Program runtime: 30 min.