DISTRIBUTION HIGHLIGHTS: October 2025
Recent and Upcoming Screenings:
Antimatter [Media Art] Festival in Victoria, BC, taking place October 16–26, will showcase two works from our catalogue:
Monument by Jeremy Drummond is screening on October 17th in the Monument program at 6pm.
Handsome Devil by Daniel Barrow is screening October 17th in the Direct Kinesis Program at 8pm.
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Lusanne Underground Film and Music Festival in Lussane, Switzerland, will be screening Handsome Devil by Daniel Barrow on October 16th in their animated shorts program.
"This year, the animated short film program takes the form of a strange compilation of all sorts of unsolicited life advice. While not originally selected for that purpose, we now realize that each of these films could serve as a cryptic answer to a desperate internet search or to a question asked far too late to the wrong person on a drunken night out… Of course, you’re free to find whatever answer you’re looking for in them or simply enjoy this program for what it is at its core: a delightful moment featuring a lighter, water, a drag queen demon, LSD in a park, an absent doll, strips of wax, pineapple toast, a rabbit that refuses to grow up, or even the reasons why we keep shouting ACAB, again and again."
- LUFF
What The Food Festival in Dubai, organized by Alserkal Initiatives, will be hosting the installation premiere ofAnthology of Fruits and Vegetables by Dawn George on October 26th.
Originally conceived as a film, George has reimagined the work as an expansive outdoor piece, unveiling the “secret language” of 26 fruits and vegetables through eco-developing techniques.
"The secret language of 26 fruits and vegetables are mesmerizingly revealed through eco-developing and eco-reversal, hand-processing techniques. With colours inspired by natural tints and a delicious sound design, this film is a refreshing way to get the recommended dose of 26 fruits and vegetables without all the harsh chemicals."
- What The Food
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BIDEODROMO International Film Festival will be screening three works from the catalogue: How to Interpret the Masquerade by Iyunade Judah, Like a Tongue Knows the Mouth by Laura Ohio, and Handsome Devil by Daniel Barrow. The festival takes place in Bilbao, Spain, from October 20-29
WAG-Qaumajuq will be opening their exhibition Staycation: The Art of Being Here on October 29th. Staycation will feature a selection of local works from their permanent collection, including following works from the VP catalogue:
- I'm BoHUNKy-Dory With It (My Nose) by Sandee Moore
- Oh Mother, Oh Prairies by Ibrahim Shuaib
- Wînipêk by James Dixon
- Home by Colleen Simard
"Through a focused selection of Manitoban artworks from the last fifty years, the exhibition invites viewers to experience their surroundings through new eyes—offering both a playful escape and a grounded sense of belonging. This iteration of the exhibition will be divided into a selection of distinct thematic sections exploring subjects like place, representation, collecting, the macabre, signs and symbols, spirituality, and materiality."
Hum of the Blue Hive Roewen Crowe and Porch by Jack Lauder are both featured in an upcoming exhibition at Buhler Gallery, titled Tending the Wild, running from September 11th-November 14th.
"Gardens are an intermediary between self-directing nature and domesticity and are entangled with politics, history, and culture. The title of this exhibition comes from a line in Paradise Lost, a seventeenth century poem by John Milton that features the Garden of Eden. “Tending” implies attending to and working with nature but also carries the sense of a tendency towards maximality and heedlessness of boundaries. Like gardeners, many artists tend the wild and the work contained in this exhibition touches on healing, subversion, pleasure, fecundity, and reciprocity, as well as history and politics. It does not adhere to a manicured definition of what a garden or exhibition is, but like them it encourages us to tend our own wild, to explore both useful and fruitless borders, and to see what can grow within us with a bit of work, dirt, light, and imagination."
Curated by hannah_g
New to the Catalogue:
peripheral vision by b.g-osborne
peripheral vision is an experiment with magnetic video recording/manipulation to promote media degradation as signals are repeatedly translated between analog and digital. through a transsexual/neurodivergent lens, the artist explores the interplay between optic and social aberrations and expresses their anxieties about the rise of surveillance/fascism in canada.
If you're interested in inquiring about bringing your work into our catalogue please contact madeline@videopool.org