April 2026
The Little Free Cinema
anivides
diario de verano, 2025, animation, digital, 3 minutes and 39 seconds
The Little Free Cinema
anivides
(Cristal Buemi and Franci Duran)
diario de verano, 2025, animation, digital, 3 minutes and 39 seconds
diario de verano is an exploration of neighborhood flora in Tkaronto, focusing on Kensington Market, Parkdale and Wallace – Emmerson, areas we live and move through. Experimentation with abstract movement and the physical, compositional properties of foraged materials, strengthened our community/kinship to the land and each other. Artistic practices were explored and shared through gathering rituals, stop motion animation and phytograms, creating complex layers of ourselves intertwined through our latinx identities in this short film.
anivides is the interweaving experimental works of multidisciplinary artists Cristal Buemi and Francisca Duran focusing on analog and digital frame-by-frame approaches to showcase their abstract study and practices. We explore the idea of weight on our structures due to environments, experiences and their direct relations to trauma, healing and transformation. We focus our collages of bodily works both in human and plant forms from a diasporic immigrant, bipoc, femme, queer and intergenerational perspective.