MAR.1: ROURKE's LIVE PERFORMANCE + COLBURN +

Over more than forty years, Rankin Renwick has produced a collection of films, videos, and installations that hang together as comfortably as hobos around a rail side fire. It's an oeuvre of misfits. The narrative voice bounces from first-person memoir to straight documentary to outright appropriation. It's an oeuvre of opportunism. Renwick’s work often springs from deeply divergent impulses and understandings of beauty; sometimes elegant, often discomfiting, but always penetrating.

With Glitch: Ontological Exhaustions & System Failures, Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta, Malta becomes an amplifier for reflections on digitality & resistance, history & remembrance: aesthetic “disruptions” (glitches) challenge the audience to reflect on their technology-dependent society. Glitch Art—a powerful tool to deconstruct the technocratic, dictatorial, and repressive dimensions of neoliberal, communist, or capitalist systems—pushes us to the boundaries of our world, governed by surveillance, algorithmic dependence, and systemic exhaustion.

Istanbul Modern Cinema, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Canada and Othon Cinema, presents an extensive retrospective of experimental cinema pioneer Michael Snow (1928–2023) in 16mm, featuring ten of his most important films