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@irisfilmcollective.bsky.social
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A group of Vancouver based independent artists creating, exhibiting and touring film-based works —actual celluloid—at a time when the medium is shifting to a post-industry model.

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Iris @irisfilmcollective.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“What I like in film is precision, slightness, economy of means, delight, inference, and a kind of motion that can be followed but not tagged, and makes seeing intelligent.” Notes in Origin: The Films of Ellie Epp Monday June 15th @thecinematheque.bsky.social www.thecinematheque.ca/films/2026/e...
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The Cinematheque / Notes in Origin: The Films of Ellie Epp
The Iris Film Collective is thrilled to present this retrospective featuring Ellie Epp’s four 16mm films (1975–1996) in new digital restorations and five more recent digital video works never before s...
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Iris @irisfilmcollective.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Iris Film Collective are looking forward to Nisha Platzer’s film ‘back home’ to be screened at Close-Up Cinema, in London, followed by a Q&A: ⭐️May 19th at 8:15pm 📍Close-Up Film Centre 97 Sclater Street, London, UK. More Info and tickets: www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_program...
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CLOSE-UP | back home + Q&A with Nisha Platzer
Close-Up is delighted to welcome Nisha Platzer to present her first feature documentary, back home. This kaleidoscopic portrait of loss and healing follows the filmmaker’s pursuit to get to know her o...
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Iris @irisfilmcollective.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Tomorrow! Short films and expanded-cinema works by LA-based, Taiwanese artist Erica Sheu (徐璐). This includes films with 2 and 3 16mm projectors! #Vancouver
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Iris @irisfilmcollective.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
DIM Cinema is back, Monday Feb 23 7pm @thecinematheque.bsky.social “Erica Sheu portraits an attempt to the perpetual, as an impulse of desire that arises to grasp life and love in a condensed light phenomena.” -Ivonne Sheen, Desistfilm www.thecinematheque.ca/films/2025/e...
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The Cinematheque / collect, release, fall, rise: The Films of Erica Sheu
In this program, Iris Film Collective presents eight short films and expanded-cinema works by LA-based, Taiwanese artist Erica Sheu (徐璐).
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Iris @irisfilmcollective.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Tune in tonight 8pm PST to hear DJ Grey Ghost interview our own Amanda Thomson on Optical Track @ www.dublab.com brought to you by our friends at Echo Park Film Center!
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Iris @irisfilmcollective.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
DIM Cinema! Ways of Seeing: short short films by Gordon Payne is screening Monday Nov 3rd 7pm @thecinematheque.bsky.social. Featuring 3 x 16mm films from the archive and a short doc about the artist by Zsofin Sheehy: thecinematheque.ca/films/2025/g... #Vancouver
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The Cinematheque / Ways of Seeing: short short films by Gordon Payne
Gordon Payne’s three short films, made in the late 1960s and early ’70s, unfold as tactile meditations on vision, ritual, and the restless politics of seeing.
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Iris @irisfilmcollective.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Alex MacKenzie's Quoindust plays Antimatter on Friday at 6pm in Victoria, or watch it online all day Saturday: antimatter.squarespace.com/friday-oct-17
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Iris @irisfilmcollective.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
That's viff.org/whats-on/vif... #VIFF2025
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Short Forum 2: Memory & mediation | VIFF 2025
Shorts from: Canada, France, Lebanon, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Syria, USA.
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Iris @irisfilmcollective.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Catch Lindsay McIntyre's One Duck Down this weekend at @viffest.bsky.social in Memory & Mediation (shorts program 2) on Saturday, October 4th at 8:30 pm or Sunday, October 5th at 6:15 pm at International Village 7: viff.org/whats-on/vif... #VIFF
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