The Cinematheque

Filmmakers in Attendance

“I conceive of the camera as a bodily extension of the human sensorium—a device through which one can feel time and perception, aiding or altering one’s experience of the world.”

Kasper Feyrer

If a ​“night at the movies” had a body, this program of works by Kasper Feyrer and Kara Ditte Hansen would strangely depict some of its organs. With the intention of convening and celebrating recent or rare works by two frequent off-screen collaborators, community builders, and beloved local weirdos, ​“Aggregate Squish” brings together their complementary practices on 16mm as a playful corpus of cinema: the film leader countdown, an ​“intermission” (not an actual intermission!), the physical venue, and an organist (which used to provide a film’s score prior to the invention of optical sound). Cinema is often understood as a site of scientific triumph, where images captured by the transitive sciences of engineering and chemistry become the pictures streaming through a light behind us. These works offer a squishy counterpart, with the effect of homeopathic flesh lobbed onto the usual structuralist excitements. —Steff Huì Cí Ling

Irregular Time Signatures
Canada 2011
Kasper Feyrer
3 min. 16mm

O’on
Canada 2023
Kasper Feyrer
9 min. Digital

Semi-precious
Canada/​USA 2024
Kara Ditte Hansen
15 min. Digital

Intermission
Canada/​USA 2025
Kara Ditte Hansen
2 min. Digital

Memory Picture Palace House
Canada/​United Kingdom 2024
Kasper Feyrer
38 min. Digital

Organ Piper
Canada/​USA 2023
Kara Ditte Hansen
3 min. Digital