https://p-f-r.com Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:29:51 +0000 https://p-f-r.com en https://p-f-r.com/HOME Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:02:30 +0000 Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko https://p-f-r.com/HOME Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko Recent &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Lovers’ Wind, Mercer Union, Toronto, Jan 20–Mar 23, 2024:&nbsp;https://www.mercerunion.org/exhibitions/lovers-wind Chooka, ELSE Screening Series, Bangkok, Thailand, Mar 23, 2024 Bunte Kuh, To Agree With Nothing Your Neighbors Say Is Lonely program, curated by Ben Balcom, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA, Mar 7, 2024 Selected Works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Visions, Montreal, Canada, Oct 5, 2023:&nbsp;https://visionsmtl.com/2023/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-ryan-ferko-2/ Heart of a Mountain, Like a lurch of earth on the edge of sleep, curated by Joud Al-Tamimi, Askhal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2023: &nbsp;https://aashra.ashkalalwan.org/like-a-lurch-of-earth Surface Rites, Cinéma Public, Montréal, Canada, June 2023:&nbsp;https://cinemapublic.ca/en/films/rites-of-passage/ Selected Works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, e-flux Screening Room, New York, USA, April 13, 2023: https://www.e-flux.com/events/529626/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-and-ryan-ferko-selected-works/ Chooka, Rememberings program, curated by Maryam Tafakory, London Short Film Festival, ICA, London, UK, Jan 28, 2023:&nbsp;https://www.ica.art/films/maryam-tafakory-iranian-short-films Chooka &amp; Beach, Films from Iran for Iran, online program by Another Screen, London, UK, Dec-Jan 2022:&nbsp;https://www.another-screen.com/films-from-iran-for-iran https://p-f-r.com/PROJECTS Fri, 26 Oct 2018 03:34:16 +0000 Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko https://p-f-r.com/PROJECTS www.p-f-r.com is the shared website for the collaborative work of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, &amp; Ryan Ferko About Projects&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Exhibition Film Film Web-project Exhibition Workshop Film Film Film Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition Film Film Lovers’ Wind, 2024 Bite &amp; Hold, 2022 Surface Rites, 2021 Charity, 2021 Radiant Temperature of Openings, 2021 Arriving Elsewhere, 2019 &amp; 2020 If All That Changes Quickly, 2018 Chooka, 2018 Heart of a Mountain, 2017 Day Tours Into The Wild, 2017 A Kind of Loud Roar, 2017 The Grass Must Have Been Mown, 2016 Signal to Babble (The Hum), 2016 Silos, 2016 Radiant Temperature of Openings: A Prologue, 2015 Bunte Kuh, 2015 There is a Woman Texting in Front of the Dark Horse, 2014 https://p-f-r.com/About Fri, 26 Oct 2018 21:45:58 +0000 Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko https://p-f-r.com/About About &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; PARASTOO ANOUSHAHPOUR, FARAZ ANOUSHAHPOUR, &amp; RYAN FERKO have worked in collaboration since 2013. Their shared practice explores the tension of multiple subjectivities as a strategy to address the power inherent in narrative structures. Over the last five years, the Toronto-based trio of Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko has brought their diasporic experiences to bear on a series of unique and fascinating projects for both the gallery and the cinema. Foregrounding place as a central aspect of their practice, the artists present location — whether it be Berlin, Taipei, Belgrade, Windsor, a village in Iran, or Cathedraltown in Markham — as cipher, and their work seeks to both decode these surroundings and trouble the image through speculative narration and dialectical imagery, which often oscillates between archival material and evocative location shooting. –Chris Kennedy, TIFF Communication is Masochism: an interview with Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko by Alexandra Gelis and Mike Hoolboom Feb. 4, 2018:&nbsp;http://mikehoolboom.com/?p=19920 Contact: parastoo.faraz.ryan@gmail.com Recent &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Lovers’ Wind, Mercer Union, Toronto, Jan 20–Mar 23, 2024: https://www.mercerunion.org/exhibitions/lovers-wind Chooka, ELSE Screening Series, Bangkok, Thailand, Mar 23, 2024 Bunte Kuh, To Agree With Nothing Your Neighbors Say Is Lonely program, curated by Ben Balcom, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA, Mar 7, 2024 Selected Works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Visions, Montreal, Canada, Oct 5, 2023: https://visionsmtl.com/2023/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-ryan-ferko-2/ Heart of a Mountain, Like a lurch of earth on the edge of sleep, curated by Joud Al-Tamimi, Askhal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2023: &nbsp;https://aashra.ashkalalwan.org/like-a-lurch-of-earthSurface Rites, Cinéma Public, Montréal, Canada, June 2023: https://cinemapublic.ca/en/films/rites-of-passage/ Selected Works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, e-flux Screening Room, New York, USA, April 13, 2023: https://www.e-flux.com/events/529626/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-and-ryan-ferko-selected-works/ Chooka, Rememberings program, curated by Maryam Tafakory, London Short Film Festival, ICA, London, UK, Jan 28, 2023: https://www.ica.art/films/maryam-tafakory-iranian-short-films Chooka &amp; Beach, Films from Iran for Iran, online program by Another Screen, London, UK, Dec-Jan 2022: https://www.another-screen.com/films-from-iran-for-iran Bite &amp; Hold, Before Law, ONLINE, launched Nov 2022: https://before-law.com/projects/bite-and-hold Chooka, Films from Flaherty Seminar, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA, Nov 2023 Chooka, Films from Flaherty Seminar, MoMA Sculpture Garden, NYC, USA, Aug 17, 2022: https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/8061 Surface Rites, Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Porto, Portugal, July 2022: https://www.festival.curtas.pt/en/film/fc-42/ Continents of Drifting Clouds, 67th Flaherty Film Seminar, featured artists, curated by Almudena Escobar López and Sky Hopinka, June 25-July 1, 2022: &nbsp;https://theflaherty.org/2022-seminar-online Film works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, EXIS, Seoul, South Korea, June 2022 Bunte Kuh, Through the Lens, Gallery Sham, Tehran, Iran, June 2022 Film works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada, June 2022 Surface Rites, Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France &amp; Berlin, Germany, May 2022 Surface Rites, European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), April 20-24, 2022: https://www.emaf.de/work/?id=35886 Surface Rites, Forum Expanded, Berlinale, Feb 10-20, 2022: https://www.berlinale.de/en/programme/programme/detail.html?film_id=202205560 Surface Rites, Media City Film Festival, 25th Anniversary Virtual Edition, Feb 8- Mar 1, 2022: https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/25th-anniversary/ Charity, web-documetary, National Film Board of Canada: https://charity.nfb.ca Greater Toronto Art 2021, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Sept 2021-Jan 2022: https://moca.ca/gta2021-home/ Radiant Temperature of Openings, Hamilton Artist Inc, Hamilton, ONAugust 28 - November 20, 2021 http://www.theinc.ca/exhibitions/radiant-temperature/ Chooka, Presented online for free by Visions (Montreal), featuring a comissioned essay by André Habib: https://lalumierecollective.org/2020/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-et-ryan-ferko/ If All That Changes Quickly, screening online through February 2021, presented by WET Film (Rotterdam), featuring an audio interview: http://wetfilm.org/portfolio/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-ryan-ferko-if-all-that-changed-quickly/If All That Changes Quickly, in Estudiotik at 5, Tabakalera Centre for International Culture, San Sebastian/Donostia, Spain, Feb 26 - May 9, 2021: https://www.tabakalera.eus/en/estudiotik-5-years-creationArriving Elsewhere, live online performance, presented by Mercer Union as part of their Isthmus collaborative research commission, Nov 15, 2020: https://www.mercerunion.org/events/isthmus-2020-live/Arriving Elsewhere, online residency, part of Mercer Union’s Isthmus collaborative research commission with Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Batool Elhennawy, Ryan Ferko, Batoul Ibrahim, Bayan Kiwan, Mahshid Rafiei, Kari Leigh Rosenfeld, Mounir Soussan, Francisco Rodríguez Teare, Merve Ünsal: https://www.mercerunion.org/isthmus-summer-2020/ ScreeningHeart of a Mountain, curated programme Making Kin(o) by Tzuan Wu, The Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, Feb 6, 2021:&nbsp;https://expcinema.org/site/en/events/making-kino-自主放映祭-vol-1 Online ProgramChooka, Heart of a Mountain, Bunte Kuh in Thousandsuns Cinema, presented by Media City Film Festival (Online), Windsor, Canada, Dec 2 - 23, 2020: https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/thousandsuns-cinema/ &nbsp; Online ProgramChooka, Visions Microcinema and Hors Champ, Montreal, Canada, Oct 28 - Dec 31, 2020 (extended and ongoing): https://lalumierecollective.org/2020/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-et-ryan-ferko// Online programme Bunte Kuh, programmed by Madeline Bogoch as part of Vtape Curatorial Incubator Series, Sept 25, 2020:https://www.vtape.org/event/c-i-v-16-living-in-hope Solo programme Films by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, &amp; Ryan Ferko, Chrysalis Showcase, Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Canada, Feb 15, 2020:&nbsp;https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/chrysalis-fellowship/ Solo programmeWhat the Complete Image Could Be: Works by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Microlights, Milwaukee, USA, Sept 29, 2019, info: http://microlightscinema.com/Festival screeningChooka, Eureka University Film Festival, Bogota, Columbia, Sept 15 &amp; Sept 17, 2019, info: https://www.eurekacine.com/homeScreeningChooka, special program curated by Christina Battle, Festival of Fringe Film, Durham, Canada, July 20, 2019, info: http://www.fabfilmfest.ca/schedule.htmlFestival screeningChooka, European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, Germany, Apr 25, 2019, info: https://www.emaf.de/en/Register.html#artist-397-work-588Residency &amp; WorkshopArriving Elsewhere, collaborative film workshop led by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko, presented by Spring Sessions, Amman &amp; Wadi Rum, Jordan, Apr 15–23, 2019, info: http://www.springsessions.org/happenings/opencall246?edition=edition2019-enGroup exhibitionSilos, Dazibao, Montreal, Canada, March 2019, info: https://www.artfifa.com/en/movies/in-praesentia-in-absentia Festival screeningChooka, Punto de Vista International Documentary Festival, Pamplona, Spain, Mar 11–16, 2019, info: http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/ultima_edicion.asp?IdSeccion=106Performance &amp; screeningbeach &amp; Chooka, Tabakalera Centre for International Culture, San Sebastian, Spain, Mar 12, 2019, info: https://www.tabakalera.eu/en/solasaldia-3Screening Bunte Kuh, Respondent Series Screening curated by Jean-Paul Kelly, Plugin ICA, Winnipeg, Canada, Mar 6, 2019, info:https://plugin.org/exhibitions/screening-bonjour-aux-amis-de-calamite-curated-by-jean-paul-kelly-as-part-of-our-respondent-series/Installation Lives &amp; Works, performance documentation in collaboration with Michael Snow &amp; Mani Mazinani, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Feb 23, 2019 Screening Lives &amp; Works, performance documentation in collaboration with Michael Snow &amp; Mani Mazinani, The Horse Hospital, London, UK, Feb 19, 2019 Festival screening Chooka, Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, U.A.E., Jan 24, 2019, info: http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/events/sharjah-film-platform-programme-23Solo programmeWhat the Complete Image Could Be: Works by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Toronto International Film Festival, Wavelengths year-round programming, Dec 4, 2018, info: https://www.tiff.net/events/what-the-complete-image-could-be-works-by-faraz-anoushahpour-parastoo-anoushahpour-and-ryan-ferko/ PerformanceRadiant Temperature of Openings: A Prologue, performance presented by Mercer Union, Toronto, part of In Studio series, No 28, 2018, info:http://www.mercerunion.org/events/in-studio-faraz-anoushahpour-parastoo-anoushahpour-and-ryan-ferko-2/ Screening Chooka, Duke University, Durham, USA, Nov 12, 2018: https://artscenter.duke.edu/event/lift-presents-the-madvo-collection-commissioning-project/Festival screening Chooka, Viennale, Nov 8, 2018, info: https://www.viennale.at/de/film/chookaFestival screening Chooka, Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Canada, Nov 10, 2018, info: http://mediacityfilmfestival.com/mcff23/international-competition-4/ Festival screeningChooka, Projections, New York Film Festival, New York City, USA, Oct 6 &amp; 7, 2018, info:https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2018/films/program-3-trips-to-the-interior/ Screening Chooka, Cinema Multiversal 3, Lisbon, Portugal, Curated by Ana Vaz, Sept 30, 2018, info: soon Group exhibition Contact Landings, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario, Jul 20 – Sept 16, 2018, info: https://www.chatham-kent.ca/tourism-culture/thames-art-gallery/current-upcoming-exhibitions/contact-landing(s) Performance &amp; Workshop beach, Mercer Union, Toronto,Jun 3, 2018, Info: https://www.mercerunion.org/events/session/ Festival screening Chooka, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, Jun 26 &amp; Jul 1, 2018, info:https://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/2018/chooka Screening - Solo Program Films by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Convivio, Oaxaca, Mexico, May 11, 2018, info:https://www.facebook.com/events/1954340078214797/Festival screening Heart of a Mountain, Fronteira Festival, Goiânia, Brazil, Apr 14, 2018, info:http://www.fronteirafestival.com/pt/filme/coracao-da-montanha-heart-of-a-mountain Festival screening Heart of a Mountain, European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, Germany, Apr 19, 2018, info:https://www.emaf.de/de/Timetable.html Festival screening Heart of a Mountain, Peripheral Visions Film Festival, New York City, Apr 21, 2018, info: https://qubitmusic.com/visions Screening Chooka, Jacques Madvo Commissioning Project, Revue Cinema, Toronto, Jan 23, 2018, info: https://lift.ca/programming/lift-debuts-films-artist-commission-madvo-collection Residency Tabakalera Centre of International Culture, San Sebastián, Spain, September &amp; October, 2017, project info: https://www.tabakalera.eu/en/artists-space/artistic-residencies/residents Festival screening Heart of a Mountain, Toronto International Film Festival, Sept 10, 2017, info: https://www.tiff.net/tiff/heart-of-a-mountain/?v=heart-of-a-mountain ScreeningThere is a Woman Texting in Front of the Dark Horse, Trinity Square Video at Big on Bloor Festival, Toronto, Canada, July 27, 2017, info: https://www.trinitysquarevideo.com/screening-big-on-bloor-2017/ Exhibition Heart of a Mountain, TAV Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, May 26-June 18, 2017, Info soonExhibition Day Tours Into the Wild, 8eleven at Platforms Project, Athens, Greece, May 20–25, 2017, info:https://platformsproject.com/platforms/8eleven/ Residency Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan, April - June 2017, project info: http://www.artistvillage.org/artist-detail.php?p=3933Exhibition of movement and dwelling, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, January 13 – March 11, 2017, info: https://www.trinitysquarevideo.com/of-movement-and-dwelling/ Screening Bunte Kuh, Nocturnal Reflections, Milan, Italy, March 8, 2017, info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1467674929940657/ Screening Bunte Kuh, Centro Cultural Casa Matienzo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec 13, 2016, info:http://ccmatienzo.com.ar/wp/events/festival-canadian-contemporary-media-art/ Solo exhibition Signal to Babble (The Hum), in collaboration with Felix Kalmenson, SPACES &amp; The Sculpture Centre, Cleveland, USA, November 11 – December 17, 2016, info: https://www.spacesgallery.org/project/the-hum Exhibition Like an Old Friend, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, September 9 – October 15, 2016, info: https://gallery44.org/exhibitions/old-friend Screening There is a Woman Texting in Front of the Dark Horse, Schalten und Walten, Colgone, Germany, October 14, 2016, info:http://www.schaltenwalten.com/ Screening Bunte Kuh, UNEXPOSED Microcinema, Durham, NC, September 30, 2016, info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1100316100004635/Festival screening Bunte Kuh, WNDX Festival, Winnipeg, September 28, 2016, info: https://www.wndx.org/event/shorts-program-family-scrapbook/?instance_id=1459 Screening Bunte Kuh, La Lumière, Montreal, September 1, 2016, info: https://www.visionsmtl.com/northern-light.html Exhibition Silos, Luminato Festival, Hearn Generating Station, Toronto, June 10-26, 2016, info: https://luminatofestival.com/2016-Program/Events/YTB-Gallery-Exhibition Artist Talk Radiant Temperature of Openings, Image/Interface Symposium, Toronto, May 13, 2016, info: https://imageinterface2016.wordpress.com/panels-and-presenters/ Festival screeningBunte Kuh, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany, May 9, 2016: https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/?id=1736#c31595 Screening There is a Woman Texting in Front of the Dark Horse, CineCycle, Toronto, March 5, 2016, info: http://pdome.org/2015/minority-report-films-of-colonization-and-abandonment-of-land/ Touring programme Bunte Kuh, Codec Festival touring program, various cities Mexico, February 2016, info: http://codecfestival.mx/wordpress/ Festival screening Bunte Kuh, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, USA, March 5, 2016, info: https://www.onioncity.org/ Festival screening Bunte Kuh, Northwest Film Centre, Portland, USA, February 23, 2016, info: https://cinemaproject.org/archive/screenings/2016/spring/short-cuts-vii-space-time-being Screening Bunte Kuh, Centro Cultural ALIAC, Mexico City, Mexico, February 19, 2016, info: http://codecfestival.mx/wordpress/ Festival screening Bunte Kuh, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Februrary 2016, info: https://iffr.com/en/professionals/blog/as-long-as-it-takes-2016-short-film-selection Solo exhibition Radiant Temperature of Openings: A Prologue, 8-11 Gallery, Toronto, December 9 - December 27, 2015, info: http://8eleven.org/radiant-temperature-of-openings-a-prologue/ Festival screening Bunte Kuh, Codec Festival de Video y Creaciones Sonoras, Mexico City, Mexico, December 4, 2015, info: http://codecfestival.mx/page/ Festival screening Bunte Kuh, Experimenta Festival of Moving Image Art, Bangalore, India, November 28, 2015, info: https://experimenta.in/?page_id=2295 Screening There is a Woman Texting in Front of the Dark Horse, Mothlight Microcinema, Detroit, November 6, 2015, info: https://www.mothlightmicrocinema.org/minority-report/ Festival screening Bunte Kuh, Antimatter Media Arts, Victoria, Canada, October 21, 2015, Info: https://www.antimatter.ws/1021.html Festival Screening Bunte Kuh, Projections, New York Film Festival, October 4, 2015, info: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2015/daily/lineup-announced-for-projections-at-nyff53/ Screening Bunte Kuh, Green Park, Athens, Greece, Presented by Sound Development City, September 24, 2015 Festival screening Bunte Kuh, Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, September 12, 2015, info: https://tiff.net/festivals/festival15/wavelengths/bunte-kuh Festival screening Bunte Kuh, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, September 18, 2015, info: https://www.haverhillexperimental.org/ Festival screening Bunte Kuh, Media City Film Festival, Windsor &amp; Detroit, July 28 - August 1, 2015, info: https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/mcff21/international-program-7/ Festival screening Bunte Kuh, Crossroads Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque, April 10-12, 2015 Exhibition PATH, Art Souterrain Festival / Nuit Blanche, Montreal, February 28 - March 31, 2015, info: http://www.artsouterrain.com/en/r.-ferko-f.-anoushahpour-p.-anoushahpour/ Group exhibition Openhaus Screenings, ZK/U Centre for Art &amp; Urbanistics, Berlin, September 9, 2014 &amp; October 23, 2014, Project information:https://www.zku-berlin.org/residencies/119/ // Part I:https://www.zku-berlin.org/event/openhaus-25092014/ // Part II: https://www.zku-berlin.org/event/openhaus-23102014/ https://p-f-r.com/Bite-Hold-title Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:27:52 +0000 Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko https://p-f-r.com/Bite-Hold-title &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Bite &amp; Hold 14 min | Video | Canada | 2022 Back | Home | Next https://p-f-r.com/Bite-Hold-info Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:29:51 +0000 Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko https://p-f-r.com/Bite-Hold-info Bite &amp; HoldParastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko14 min | Video | Canada | 2022Canine units and their service dogs are a leading cause of violence and injury in most police jurisdictions across North America. Despite this prevalence, violence related to dogs remains under-reported and under-regulated, largely stemming from their legal classification as "intermediate weapons." In cases of harm inflicted upon citizens, this classification splits legal responsibility between the handler and the animal, rarely finding officers accountable while promoting the use of dogs over other types of weapons. Simultaneously, through school appearances, holiday calendars, and social media channels, these same dogs are used to neutralize the violent reality of police departments. Bite &amp; Hold contests this manipulated public image, placing an archive of canine unit Christmas cards in relation to the direct violence officers use their dogs for. Filmed from a distance in various public spaces, the daily life of the city passes in front of and behind these images, either obscuring their surface or momentarily turning them from negative abstractions into moments of clarity. The language of witnessing, testimony, and description add a final, silent layer to these images, returning them to their violent reality. This project is inspired by the legal advocacy and reporting of Pivot Legal Society, in Vancouver, and their report Moving to Minimum Force: Police Dogs and Public Safety in British Columbia, which can be read in full here. Special thank you to Caitlin Shane, Sharlene Bamboat, Alexis Mitchell, and Aamna Muzaffar Produced with support from Bamboat | Mitchell and the Canada Council for the Arts. CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE PROJECT AND WATCH THE FULL WORK ONLINE <img width="1440" height="810" width_o="1440" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec34a9db61b2a5c100d9a7fe9c37b4e6b13a1bb30d1543b5c0b31d7433410c3d/Bite-and-Hold-00.jpg" data-mid="206892101" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec34a9db61b2a5c100d9a7fe9c37b4e6b13a1bb30d1543b5c0b31d7433410c3d/Bite-and-Hold-00.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="810" width_o="1440" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8925b603b8923dadf07b67ae294023cbb1a991f6224761168f2be8b647960607/Bite-and-Hold-07.jpg" data-mid="206892109" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8925b603b8923dadf07b67ae294023cbb1a991f6224761168f2be8b647960607/Bite-and-Hold-07.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="810" width_o="1440" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bfa9a47c144d34fb4faca7f088602c691dcbede8f1fbf172d238cabf4f99dc17/Bite-and-Hold-01.jpg" data-mid="206892102" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bfa9a47c144d34fb4faca7f088602c691dcbede8f1fbf172d238cabf4f99dc17/Bite-and-Hold-01.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="810" width_o="1440" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78586a409897f76f1b52a38009044b2677f820b774b6fc612d985a4de303a936/Bite-and-Hold-02.jpg" data-mid="206892103" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78586a409897f76f1b52a38009044b2677f820b774b6fc612d985a4de303a936/Bite-and-Hold-02.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="810" width_o="1440" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45b614c4d3746fd0a0f4d1f26bf898e9ad0aff1444bd0d1865f6acda3347488f/Bite-and-Hold-03.jpg" data-mid="206892104" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/45b614c4d3746fd0a0f4d1f26bf898e9ad0aff1444bd0d1865f6acda3347488f/Bite-and-Hold-03.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="810" width_o="1440" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97c8104542b40f008feac2ebcd1623049e9bd2fbd778f459072bc9b3acaed0a1/Bite-and-Hold-04.jpg" data-mid="206892105" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97c8104542b40f008feac2ebcd1623049e9bd2fbd778f459072bc9b3acaed0a1/Bite-and-Hold-04.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="810" width_o="1440" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bba6d59b76b5fad05099338270456ce2e288524b2a8a755442e5ad459d1219fa/Bite-and-Hold-05.jpg" data-mid="206892107" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bba6d59b76b5fad05099338270456ce2e288524b2a8a755442e5ad459d1219fa/Bite-and-Hold-05.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="810" width_o="1440" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06825be2e9a3ff7e4ae901ad74d603810de5e0190371929e8b55f72ea474e645/Bite-and-Hold-06.jpg" data-mid="206892108" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06825be2e9a3ff7e4ae901ad74d603810de5e0190371929e8b55f72ea474e645/Bite-and-Hold-06.jpg" /> Bite &amp; Hold, stills Selected ScreeningsVisions, Montreal, Quebec, Oct 5, 2023: https://visionsmtl.com/2023/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-ryan-ferko-2/e-flux Screening Room, New York, USA, April 13, 2023:&nbsp;https://www.e-flux.com/events/529626/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-and-ryan-ferko-selected-works/Before Law, ONLINE, launched Nov 2022:&nbsp;https://before-law.com/projects/bite-and-hold https://p-f-r.com/Surface-Rites-title Sun, 09 Jan 2022 16:53:55 +0000 Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko https://p-f-r.com/Surface-Rites-title &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Surface Rites 24 min | 16mm to HD | Canada | 2021 Back | Home | Next https://p-f-r.com/Surface-Rites-info Sun, 09 Jan 2022 16:53:57 +0000 Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko https://p-f-r.com/Surface-Rites-info Surface RitesParastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko24 min | 16mm to HD | Canada | 2021A young Slovakian immigrant opens a uranium mine near Elliot Lake in northern Ontario, and later builds a massive replica of the modest church from his childhood village. Stranded amongst suburban streets named after prize-winning Holstein cows, now sits this monumental cathedral, unfinished and private. Teenage zombies emerge from lakes and rivers around Serpent River First Nation, once poisoned with uranium waste. There is talk of eugenics at a Holstein pageant, and a retired dairy farmer and his wife remember a recurring dream where their work is never done. Produced with the support of Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Media City Film Festival’s Chrysalis Fellowship Surface Rites, online screener | for exhibition copy &amp; permissions please contact parastoo.faraz.ryan@gmail.com <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/884627c3f07023aa4ff9c8c4b36202b58160824221c44920301c8457e6cd9e1d/Surface-Rites01.jpg" data-mid="129538893" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/884627c3f07023aa4ff9c8c4b36202b58160824221c44920301c8457e6cd9e1d/Surface-Rites01.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b366067d46160861c376a850c851bd89be909a09aab077c0eea4b5851ae82d25/Surface-Rites02.jpg" data-mid="129538895" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b366067d46160861c376a850c851bd89be909a09aab077c0eea4b5851ae82d25/Surface-Rites02.jpg" /> <img width="1440" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f25e50c110ed40bf2752dfc565b9613b5d0aceecccb2fb86bc29bbc78175b3f1/Surface-Rites10.jpg" data-mid="129538915" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f25e50c110ed40bf2752dfc565b9613b5d0aceecccb2fb86bc29bbc78175b3f1/Surface-Rites10.jpg" /> Surface Rites, film stills Surface Rites, trailer <img width="4027" height="2679" width_o="4027" height_o="2679" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c7f3a83f11f1431485d804c3a439407cfeddc0c35ea7557da07be0641679219/Untitled-20-MEDIUM-RES.jpg" data-mid="129539892" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c7f3a83f11f1431485d804c3a439407cfeddc0c35ea7557da07be0641679219/Untitled-20-MEDIUM-RES.jpg" /> <img width="2661" height="1991" width_o="2661" height_o="1991" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f45e7818db8c8d8db6e88175d6fb6eb25fd9c6ba9aa8418611bf699a41ed7e9d/_HAF3055-MEDIUM-RES-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="131762408" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f45e7818db8c8d8db6e88175d6fb6eb25fd9c6ba9aa8418611bf699a41ed7e9d/_HAF3055-MEDIUM-RES-copy-2.jpg" /> Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid) Screenings &amp; ExhibitionsSelected Works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Visions, Montreal, Canada, Oct 5, 2023: https://visionsmtl.com/2023/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-ryan-ferko-2/Cinéma Public, Montréal, Canada, June 2023: https://cinemapublic.ca/en/films/rites-of-passage/Selected Works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, e-flux Screening Room, New York, USA, April 13, 2023: https://www.e-flux.com/events/529626/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-and-ryan-ferko-selected-works/Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Porto, Portugal, July 2022: https://www.festival.curtas.pt/en/film/fc-42/Film works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, EXIS, Seoul, South Korea, June 2022Film works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada, June 2022Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France &amp; Berlin, Germany, May 2022 European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), April 20-24, 2022: https://www.emaf.de/work/?id=35886 Berlinale, Berlin, Germany, Feb 10-20, 2022:&nbsp;https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum-forum-expanded/forum-expanded-program/films/surface-rites/Media City 25th Anniversary Virtual Edition, Feb 8 - Mar 10, 2022:&nbsp;https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/25th-anniversary/GTA21 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada, Sept 2020-Jan 2021:&nbsp;https://moca.ca/gta2021-home/ Surface Rites runs parallel to the NFB-produced web documentary called Charity, presented as part of the Greater Toronto Art 2021 (GTA21) exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto.&nbsp; https://p-f-r.com/Charity-title Sun, 09 Jan 2022 16:52:02 +0000 Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko https://p-f-r.com/Charity-title &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Charity 36 min | 360 video, web documentary | Canada | 2021 Back | Home | Next https://p-f-r.com/Charity-info Sun, 09 Jan 2022 16:52:06 +0000 Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko https://p-f-r.com/Charity-info CharityParastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko36 min | 360 video, web documentary | Canada | 2021In July 2017 residents of the Markham suburban development of Cathedraltown awoke to find a chrome replica of a prize-winning Holstein cow, double its original size, suspended on 25-foot tall stilts in the centre of a small crescent facing their homes. The sculpture was commissioned by Cathedraltown’s developer, and donated to the City of Markham as a public art piece. The residents, however, quickly rose in opposition to a sculpture that they felt did not represent them, and negatively affected their quiet suburban community. Charity the Cow was finally removed from Crescent Park in May 2018. Charity looks at the unlikely controversy surrounding suburban public art, focusing on the bureaucratic processes that unfolded over several years in the Markham City Council, as a way to consider the broader forces at play in our municipal democracies. From the same council chamber’s where land is subdivided, rezoned, and repurposed, decisions are also made about what public art should do to narrate place. Presented as a public digital artwork produced by the National Film Board of Canada, this interactive documentary employs 360° video and photogrammetry to present a variation on the familiar interactive real estate tour –– where a house in Cathedraltown becomes a site to collect and re-narrate a community’s confrontation with a piece of public art, in turn offering a portrait of private property. This project runs parallel to the film Surface Rites, presented as part of the Greater Toronto Art 2021 (GTA21) exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto.&nbsp; To view the project, please visit: nfb.ca/charity <img width="440" height="214" width_o="440" height_o="214" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2cb04fab5fdda408350b742878b806f126a870ac0cbfd0e767934a6075fc455/440px-National_Film_Board_of_Canada_logo.svg.png" data-mid="131563035" border="0" data-scale="16" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/440/i/e2cb04fab5fdda408350b742878b806f126a870ac0cbfd0e767934a6075fc455/440px-National_Film_Board_of_Canada_logo.svg.png" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img width="282" height="179" width_o="282" height_o="179" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/713b56cf04cc78a8b6771b6c2a0a1c6e4ab4c457795b3f168a6ed43885b0db8b/Background.png" data-mid="131563555" border="0" data-scale="12" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/282/i/713b56cf04cc78a8b6771b6c2a0a1c6e4ab4c457795b3f168a6ed43885b0db8b/Background.png" /> <img width="3584" height="2109" width_o="3584" height_o="2109" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c2b83e2ce3d0343ff4c11725b2f26d5996204057cdd2f1b150b60a5293477fa/Screen-Shot-2022-01-09-at-12.49.38-PM.png" data-mid="131561289" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c2b83e2ce3d0343ff4c11725b2f26d5996204057cdd2f1b150b60a5293477fa/Screen-Shot-2022-01-09-at-12.49.38-PM.png" /> <img width="3574" height="2146" width_o="3574" height_o="2146" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38ef35bda763b07433e2f0b52b0ea6cc941f26b26dd7a0644146453db2d6e2fe/Screen-Shot-2022-01-09-at-1.07.29-PM.png" data-mid="131561351" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/38ef35bda763b07433e2f0b52b0ea6cc941f26b26dd7a0644146453db2d6e2fe/Screen-Shot-2022-01-09-at-1.07.29-PM.png" /> <img width="3584" height="2146" width_o="3584" height_o="2146" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89400b45b7926115398f7c5ed0fc372b55790703d1d7865c2cf9fd3dfb2cc4df/Screen-Shot-2022-01-09-at-1.32.58-PM.png" data-mid="131561459" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89400b45b7926115398f7c5ed0fc372b55790703d1d7865c2cf9fd3dfb2cc4df/Screen-Shot-2022-01-09-at-1.32.58-PM.png" /> <img width="3576" height="2146" width_o="3576" height_o="2146" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe26b05185d374a2d7519139593a9147b5c340d4d18a421cdc4668a1b255ee56/Screen-Shot-2022-01-09-at-1.32.18-PM.png" data-mid="131561394" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe26b05185d374a2d7519139593a9147b5c340d4d18a421cdc4668a1b255ee56/Screen-Shot-2022-01-09-at-1.32.18-PM.png" /> <img width="3575" height="2174" width_o="3575" height_o="2174" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e68663b1ac6c37f7f693f77654585869eb54ff71a55e56230a5676528de3044/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-4.57.29-PM.png" data-mid="131561869" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e68663b1ac6c37f7f693f77654585869eb54ff71a55e56230a5676528de3044/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-4.57.29-PM.png" /> <img width="3584" height="2240" width_o="3584" height_o="2240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e6882cf7f76b78e051196d5f4263b2fced892dbd8f9bc9ebdde11d2c9b88e96/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-4.58.12-PM.png" data-mid="131561881" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e6882cf7f76b78e051196d5f4263b2fced892dbd8f9bc9ebdde11d2c9b88e96/Screen-Shot-2022-01-26-at-4.58.12-PM.png" /> Charity, screenshots, web documentary&nbsp; <img width="2676" height="3888" width_o="2676" height_o="3888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac66f5dd5a2e5f1fa7de3a0c5056e9d67d8934b524f609378a6dfc35537999fe/_HAF3055-MEDIUM-RES.jpg" data-mid="129540879" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac66f5dd5a2e5f1fa7de3a0c5056e9d67d8934b524f609378a6dfc35537999fe/_HAF3055-MEDIUM-RES.jpg" />Installation view,&nbsp;Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto&nbsp;(Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid) To view PDF of installation broadsheet click here https://p-f-r.com/Radiant-Temperature-of-Openings-title Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:23:09 +0000 Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko https://p-f-r.com/Radiant-Temperature-of-Openings-title &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Radiant Temperature of OpeningsHamilton Artist Inc, Hamilton, ON | August 28 – November 20, 2021 Back | Home | Next