Sat Nov 14 | 3 PM
Gas Station Arts Centre
445 River Ave, at Osborne
Film Performance
Program duration: 30 mins
Followed by a Q&A with Elian Mikkola
Twinklight: A Film Performance by Elian Mikkola
Twinklight is an ever-changing live film performance observing and reflecting on the experience of online dating and desire to attend the cruising culture as a trans masculine person. The performance combines light and shadows while using the surface of a trans body as a texture for projection.
In spring 2024, as a part of an analogue film residency in Filmverkstaden in Vaasa, filmmaker Elian Mikkola started exploring an old colour separation technique as a way to produce colour images in an environmentally conscious way, using b&w film. Twinklight emanated out of this research.
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About the Artist
Elian Mikkola is a Finnish moving image artist (of Karelian descent), currently based between Montréal (Tiohtià:ke) and Treaty 4, Canada. Originally from Turku, Finland, Mikkola holds a BA in Journalism from Tampere University and an MFA from the University of Regina. Their work ranges from single-channel video and analogue film to hybrid time-based media. Mikkola works closely with hybrid forms and explores themes such as memory, spatial dependencies and queer belonging.