Presented with the task of making a film about the End of the World using a limited supply of black and white print stock: the sea levels rise, the magnetic poles switch, we face the mortality of ourselves and those we love and question ideas of identity, representation and time itself. This diverse program pushes the limits of our technical capacity as creators and the collective imagination.

Works by Ariel Kirk-Gushowaty, Zoe Kirk-Gushowaty, Alex MacKenzie, Lisa G.Nielsen, Sydney Southam, Michele Simone Smith, Amanda Thomson, Ryder White, John Woods.

Iris Film Collective (in collaboration with Cineworks) are pleased to present FRENKEL DEFECTS, a traveling screening series of contemporary experimental 16mm films presented by Kevin Rice (in person) from the Colorado-based Process Reversal. This series aims to explore what it means to work in—and exhibit on—photochemical film today by examining works from artists operating specifically in this practice. Often, this involves getting their hands dirty at every stage of the process: from optical effects to photo-processing, editing and contact printing, optical sound recording, and even the creation of the photosensitive emulsion itself. As a result (and as suggested by the series' title), creative aberrations make their way into the standard photochemical process, giving birth to a new, textural aesthetic that plays out on the surface of the filmstrip. More than ever before, film reminds us of its physicality, giving a new sense to Andrei Tarkovsky’s idea of “sculpting in time.”