August 25, 2019
Streetsville Village Square, 213 Queen St S., Mississauga
Events are FREE and open to the public. All are welcome.
Presented as part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea.
Wild Relatives: Screening and Conversation
Jumana Manna, Justin Podur, and Sara Saljoughi
August 25, 2019
Streetsville Village Square, 213 Queen St S., Mississauga
Events are FREE and open to the public. All are welcome.
In 2012, an international agricultural research centre was forced to relocate from Aleppo, Syria, to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon due to the Syrian Revolution turned war. Having left behind its seed bank, the research centre began a laborious process of planting their seed collection from back-ups stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Introduced by a conversation with Environmental Studies and Cinema Studies researchers, the film traces entangled global conditions of environmental destruction, and explores tensions between state and individual, industrial and organic approaches to seed saving, climate change and biodiversity, witnessed through the journey of these seeds.
Presented as part of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge public programming series, part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea.
Jumana Manna is an artist working primarily with film and sculpture. Her work explores how power is articulated through relationships, often focusing on body and materiality in relation to narratives of state building and histories of place.
Justin Podur is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. In addition to his scientific publications, he is the author of Haiti’s New Dictatorship and the upcoming novel, Siegebreakers.
Sara Saljoughi is Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. Her areas of research include international cinemas, film theory, postcolonial theory, and migration and diaspora studies. She is co-editor of the book 1968 and Global Cinema. Currently she is writing a book on the aesthetics and politics of cinema in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s.
The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea is presented by the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga in partnership with the City of Mississauga.
This is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded in part through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program. With this $35M investment, the Council supports the creation and sharing of the arts in communities across Canada.
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