ALFF Lunch Time Shorts 1: All the Nights

This screening took place on Monday, February 21, 2022 at 12:00 pmYukon Theatre

Take in a short film program over weekday lunch-hours at the Yukon Theatre. The theatre will be open 12pm - 2pm February 21 to 25 and feature a different 20-minute program running on a loop each day. These are free admission events.

Screening at 12pm, 12:20pm, 12:40pm, 1pm, 1:20pm, 1:40pm

June Night - Mike Maryniuk (4 minutes)

Working in sublime self-isolation during the strange pandemic spring of 2020, avant-garde filmmaker Mike Maryniuk composes a surreal ode to rebirth and reinvention. Juxtaposing archival imagery with handcrafted animation, he conjures up a shimmering utopian dreamscape, a post-COVID world shaped by the primordial forces of nature—haunted by the genial spectre of Buster Keaton.

Night Fair - Cynthia Naggar & Gueze (5 minutes)

Unique alliance of art and science, the experimental film Night Fair focuses on brain activity through the different cycles of a night's sleep. Through voice mail, media artist Cynthia Naggar and sound designer Gueze collected the dreams of citizens. These are ingeniously combined with graphic and sound representations generated by algorithms from anonymous medical data.

Nalujuk Night - Jennie Williams (13 minutes)

Nalujuk Night is an up close look at an exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying, Labrador Inuit tradition. Every January 6th from the dark of the Nunatsiavut night, the Nalujuit appear on the sea ice. They walk on two legs, yet their faces are animalistic, skeletal, and otherworldly. Snow crunches underfoot as they approach their destination: the Inuit community of Nain.