The Glass Booth + Return of the Bright Night + Morgenkreis (with descriptive subtitles)

Sat 18 Apr, 4:30PM

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Working at the edge of language, Jenny Brady follows interpreters across diplomatic meetings, asylum interviews, classrooms, and conference booths, observing what happens between hearing and saying. Voices pass through bodies, hesitations accumulate, and meaning never fully settles. In The Glass Booth, interpretation appears not as neutrality, but as a fragile human negotiation.

Return of the Bright Night is an experimental single-channel video reflecting on the filmmaker’s uncle, a political activist imprisoned and executed after Iran’s 1979 Revolution. The film centres on a shared viewing between mother and daughter of Utopia in Motion (Jocelyne Saab and Rafic Boustani, 1980), using the documentary to prompt dialogue about memory, grief and loss. Through intimate exchange, obscured family photographs, and iPhone, 16mm and DV footage of domestic spaces around Toronto, the work explores elements of trauma and the lingering haunt of revolutionary histories.

Swerving through Berlin, Morgenkreis leads us through the bleakness and intimidation of a cityscape and the political system taken root within it. A cruise through the solemn, imposing urban expanse unfolds into the claustrophobia of an interrogation, framed as an asylum claim. Moving from one state institution to another, an ambiguous foray into kindergarten sees the parental experience of alienation and guardedness mirrored through a child’s eyes. Bookended by kinetic crescendos, Morgenkreis is a damning meditation on the politics of mobility within and across borders.

Showing with descriptive subtitles. Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.