The Winnipeg Film Group and the Dave Barber Cinematheque are excited to present a discussion with filmmakers Shireen Seno and John Torres, moderated by WFG Executive Director Leslie Supnet. Join us on March 27 at 5pm.
Shireen Seno is an artist and filmmaker whose work addresses memory, history, and image-making, often in relation to the idea of home. A recipient of the 2018 Thirteen Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines, she is known for her films which have won awards at Rotterdam, Punto de Vista, Shanghai, Olhar de Cinema, Vladivostok, Jogja-Netpac, and Lima Independiente and have screened at numerous international festivals and art institutions. Seno was a 2022 Film Fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program and 2023 Visiting Professor for ArteVisione at c/o in Milan. Her first solo exhibition in Europe, “A child dies, a child plays, a woman is born, a woman dies, a bird arrives, a bird flies off,” at daadgalerie in Berlin in 2023, travelled to Esplanade – Theatres By the Bay in Singapore in 2024. Her work is in the collections of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive.
John Torres is an independent filmmaker, musician and writer, known for his highly personal and poetic style. His work fictionalizes and reworks personal and found documentations of love, family relations, and memory in relation to current events, hearsays, myth, and folklore. Weaving together archival clips, found footage, and visually powerful imagery, his films unfold narrative structures, often with strong autobiographical references, that defy conventional tropes and genres.
In addition to their own work, Seno and Torres are founders of the Los Otros collective in Manila, a critically-acclaimed film and video platform committed to the intersections of film and art, with a focus on process over product.
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