Maria Lassnig, who died in 2014, is internationally regarded as one of the most important painters of the 20th century. Her lyrical abstraction, developed from her own physical experience - the so-called "body awareness", in which emotional experience and physical sensibility are combined - also found cinematic expression in the early 1970s. As part of her New York exile, Lassnig attended an animation film class at the School of Visual Arts and began filming on 8mm and 16mm.

3 Colours of Light: Deliberations on red, blue & green.
Presented by Berlin-based artist Deborah S.Philips.

Deborah S.Philips works with a range of analogue media, including printmaking, painting, collage and film. The nature of colour is a subject she has been investigating for over a decade.

In this programme, through three 16mm films and a 16mm performance with audience participation, she presents her results.

DIM Cinema presents a selection of archival work by New York artist Leslie Thornton in parallel with her exhibition at Vancouver’s Unit 17. A pioneer of contemporary media aesthetics, Thornton works at the limits of cinema, video, and digital media. Films such as X-TRACTS and Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue, both screening here, have coloured the development of her oeuvre over subsequent decades.