PHANTOM TIME
Hybrid Works in Film by Madi Piller
December 14
5 PM
Heather Edwards Theatre
For the final program of 2025, MONOGRAPH is pleased to present a survey of works by celebrated Peruvian Canadian artist, filmmaker and community builder Madi Piller. This 97-minute program represents a small selection of Madi’s oeuvre, focused on works leveraging multiple film formats and demonstrating hybrid approaches for working in analogue film. For this auspicious occasion, we have the pleasure of hosting Madi in person!
Free with registration.
Program | 97’
Birds (2021) | Colour | 16mm | 3’
Temps Fantôme (2022) | Colour | 16mm | 3’
Equation of the Unbalanced Spaces (2024) | Colour | 16mm | 3’
Into the Light: the Film Resistance (2016) | Colour | 35mm -> Digital | 3’
Gate 4:3 (2025) | Colour | 16mm | Silent | 3’
Untitled, 1925 (2016) | B/W | 16mm -> Digital | 30’
Sunday Solitude (2016) | B/W | 16mm/S8 -> Digital | 5’
Not Moldova, 1937 (2019) | B/W | 16mm -> Digital | 14’
Ici et Là (2023) | B/W | 16mm -> Digital | 5’
The Angel Outside (2019) | Colour & B/W | 16mm -> Digital | 28’
Madi will also give a free artist talk and workshop, Hybrid Modes of Filmmaking: Tools & Creation, at Quickdraw Animation Society on Saturday, December 13. For more info and to RSVP for the workshop, please click here.
About the Artist
Madi Piller is a filmmaker, animator, programmer, and independent curator currently living and working in Toronto, Canada. Her abstract, non-representational, and poetic images are drawn from film explorations in Super 8, 16mm and 35mm, as well as photography and video. The resulting imagery is strongly influenced by diverse animation techniques and styles.
Madi’s films have been screened at film festivals, alternative spaces, and contemporary art venues nationally and internationally, including TIFF Wavelengths, the Festival du Cinema Jeune, Paris, France, Bienal de La Imagen Movimiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina and the Melbourne Animation Festival, Melbourne, Australia. Her work has been produced with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, and the Chalmers Arts Fellowship.
International residencies include Museum Quartier21, Vienna Austria, the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Yukon, NWT, and the Independent Imaging Retreat, Durham, Ontario.
About MONOGRAPH
MONOGRAPH began in 2018 as an ongoing series of experimental film programs with a specific focus on analogue and handmade artist film practices. Curated by Kyle Whitehead, each program focuses on the works of a single artist, filmmaker or collective. As Calgary and Southern Alberta’s only presenter dedicated entirely to experimental and expanded cinema, the series aims to elevate the local film community, exposing audiences to film artists and their works which are otherwise at risk of oversight in the region. After a long hiatus, the series is back and beginning again with three consecutive weeks of film programs, projection performance, technical workshops and talks with visiting artists.