SONIA PAÇO-ROCCHIA & MEB
Justine et les machines: To escape her solitude in isolation and a post-leukemia writer’s block, Justine uses a typewriter to compose letters to forgotten 19th century French composer Augusta Holmès, known in her time as the "Wagner of France". To Justine's astonishment, Augusta responds, triggering a series of
surreal interactions between the living and the imagined.
PARISA SABET & NIKA KHANJANI
What does love and radical acceptance look like when caring for a loved one with dementia? Vanishing Point is the first opera by Iranian-Canadian composer Parisa Sabet and Montreal-based filmmaker Nika Khanjani, which explores the experience of a woman as she cares for her mother, Aida. As Aida's illness eclipses the present moment and evokes a past with startling clarity, details slowly emerge from an earlier life — a first marriage, a child lost, a country left behind. This intergenerational drama explores the delicate ways that we can remain fully present with someone we love as we watch them slip away.
Made possible with co-commissioning by Ontario Arts Council
ANNA PIDGORNA & MARIA REVA
Plaything: Hacker Isla Frank leaked damning information on her government and has found refuge in a foreign embassy. She fears the public has forgotten her fateful sacrifice. One day, Madame Suzuki, a talking parrot and social media sensation, comes to the window. Isla captures Madame Suzuki and uses her as a PR tool to regain the attention of journalists and fans worldwide. Tensions soon arise between human and bird over their new empire.
What is true freedom and what does it cost?
Brenden Friesen Photography
