10/09/2026
The 29th edition of Antimatter opens in just one week. Along with screenings which can be experienced in-person and online we have four public media installations on display that can be seen downtown from October 15th through 25th.
The Legacy Art Gallery (window) will host Winston Hacking's Duotone Handshake. In an experimental film investigating a new form of surface transformation through folding and collage, concealed narratives begin to unfold through a relatively simple process. The film literally unpacks meaning where each crease reveals an image complexity that was hidden beneath the seemingly flat surface.
Lilan Yang’s 未命名菲林消毒怬划 [Untitled Film Disinfection Project I] can be seen in the Deluge transom window. “Censorship is the mother of metaphor.” Guided by state disinfection protocols, this 16mm structural film applies chlorine to imageless celluloid—transforming the chemical “sanitization” of film into a physical enactment of censorship, memory erasure and artistic resistance in response to China’s zero-COVID era.
Kelly Egan’s Of Swallows is installed in the Deluge entrance foyer. Egan writes “A swallow’s eye is longer than other birds. Their visual acuity is said to resemble Raptors. For sailors, swallows are a good omen signifying a close shore. My father loved birds. Since his passing I've felt afloat. Lost and unanchored. At sea in overwhelming emotions. I close my eyes and look for swallows, as metaphorical groundings.”
And finally, the Millie’s Lane Window Gallery features Bocheng Zhang’s Millstone. Millstone takes its cue from the workers’ steady, exact grinding—motion as endurance. Projection, workshop tools and mirrors made during the Cultural Revolution assemble into a site-responsive “vision machine” that settles inside the workshop and learns its rhythm. The objects collaborate, but they also scrape and strain against one another, marking the space with traces—of desire, of longing. Out of this labouring friction, a live-captured interactive image is projected back into the room, calling up a spectre of shared memory.
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