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According to the Order of Time
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Signal, Noise
Xʷəyeyət (Iona Beach) Rubbings
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Iris Film Collective is a Vancouver-based group of independent artists creating, exhibiting and touring film-based works—single channel, expanded, sculptural, installation—with the goal of increasing the visibility and accessibility of experimental media art. Above all, our interest is in ciné film—actual celluloid—at a time when this medium is shifting to a post-industry model.
Iris Film Collective are co-curators of DIM Cinema, a monthly series held at The Cinematheque, presenting Canadian and international moving-image art in dialogue with cinema. The name is inspired by the diffused Vancouver sky, the darkness of the cinema, and a quote from James Broughton’s Making Light of It (1992): “Movie images are dim reflections of the beauty and ferocity in mankind.”
Screenings are programmed in rotation by a group of local curators and artists comprising Tobin Gibson, the Iris Film Collective, Steff Huì Cí Ling, and Casey Wei.
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Solo-curated:
2026 – collect, release, fall, rise: The Films of Erica Sheu, experimental film program for DIM Cinema, Iris Filmmakers Collective, The Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC
February 23, 2026
Collect, release, fall, rise—gestures that echo through the cyclical process of making, remembering, and becoming. In this program, Iris Film Collective presents eight short films and expanded-cinema works by LA-based, Taiwanese artist Erica Sheu (徐璐). Shaped by her Asian-American experience of migration, Sheu’s works move through ritual, routine, and resilience, finding comfort in familiar spaces, textures, and materials. Light flickers, shadows, and refractions that are present within her studio, domestic, and natural surroundings guide viewers through intimate familial and historical reflections. These aspects shape and hold the filmmaker’s engagement, where the act of creation becomes a form of communion with place, family, and the self. This program invites a closer look at how vulnerability takes form through process, and how instinct becomes a method of understanding, revealing the quiet ways memory, identity, and connection unfold on screen.
This program featured 8 celluloid-based films and expanded cinema performances by Erica Sheu. More info here.
Erica Sheu, pài-la̍k ē-poo, 2020, 16mm, 2 min. Courtesy of the Artist.