TOR-MTL-TOR

2:00 / Canada / 2011 / Super 8

Synopsis: Montreal and back again. Shot in single frames from the top of a double-decker bus on Super-8, TOR-MTL-TOR is an exercise in frantic contemplation, peaceful chaos, serene velocity.

Director: Zoe Heyn-Jones

Artist bio: Zoë Heyn-Jones is a white settler researcher-artist and cultural worker who grew up on Saugeen Ojibway land in Ontario, Canada and on Tz’utujil/Kaqchikel Maya land in Guatemala. Zoë holds a PhD in Visual Arts from York University and a graduate diploma in Latin American Studies from CERLAC (the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University). Zoë is currently a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the department of Visual Arts at Western University where she is developing an interdisciplinary arts-based project on food security, sovereignty and justice in Canada and Mexico. She lives and works in Tenochtitlan/Mexico City and Tkaronto/Toronto.