Iris Film Collective: Odyssey

Society Visual Music continues to explore the social and cultural repercussions of the pandemic through video and sound. The project was formed by the limitations of the pandemic, particularly the need to communicate electronic music performance in video packages. As we begin to physically gather together again, everything is not the way it was. Among other schisms, we are divided between our digital and physical selves more than ever. In order to make this change visible, Society Visual Music’s Odyssey will be projected on a screen located outside at Iris Film Collective in Burrard View Park. The projection of a DJ set will stand-in for a physical DJ and set-up. Society Visual Music will film the audience and space during the casual screening event. The live footage will be combined in real time with the Odyssey projection using TouchDesigner, immediately turning the experience digital and 2-D, equalizing audience and performer on screen. We propose a fun, interactive and experimental film screening to be part of Capture Photography Festival.

Mia Glanz is an artist living in Mexico City and Vancouver. Working with photography, video, text, ethnography, and collage, her work attends to material culture as an exploration of personhood and social conditions. Mia has a degree in anthropology and plant biology from the University of British Columbia. She has exhibited in Mexico and Canada. Group shows in Vancouver include the Richmond Art Gallery, Access Gallery, Ho Tam Gallery, and Hatch Art Gallery, and photography as performance with the Dance Centre BC. Currently she is making video installations with her collaborative project Society Visual Music, and working on an image/text book project about the space and the stories of the Puerto Rico Apartments in Mexico City.

Mexico Eliobeth Aguilar Vazquez began his disk jockey career 1995 playing house music at clubs and parties in and around Mexico City and in coastal Mexico, USA, Spain and Canada. His mix of Tech and Progressive House is rhythmic, melodic and moves the dance floor. Events in Mexico have included opening for the French and Mexican National Cinema Festivals and clubs such as The Pervert Lounge, Bar Lulu, Bass Station, Colmillo, Galaxie, La Tirana, Salon Mexico as well as a show with D.J. Dan in 2002 for a crowd of 3000 people. Last winter he played in the Mayan Rivera at clubs El Cielo and Acabar. In Canada between 2000 and the present he has played venues such as Hush, Haunted 2: The Haunting (Fire Boy Productions), Moon Tribe Collective (LA), and Palace Sessions w/ Robert Shea (Vancouver). Elio is the current resident at Odd Thursdays at Odd Society Spirits in Vancouver. At the present, he is producing Progressive House with his brother Eduardo Aguilar Vazquez. Their project is titled “Neeper”. He is also one half of the sound-art project Society Visual Music.

Facebook: @elioagvazmusic  Society Visual Music archive

Iris Film Collective Lisa g Nielsen is an artist/filmmaker living on the Unceded Territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (sometimes known as Vancouver). She is interested in work that has historical reference, social relevance & where possible, humour. She works independently, with other artists and within communities. She is a founding member of Vancouver’s Iris Film Collective, which promotes the creation and sharing of analog film – single channel, expanded, sculptural and installation. She is also the producer/mentor of Our World which supports First Nation/Inuit/Métis youth to create self directed short films. Lisa g’s work screens internationally and has won awards.

Echo Park Film Center Lisa Marr is a filmmaker, educator and community cinema activist whose work is a catalyst for creative collaboration and positive social change. Lisa is a co-founder of Echo Park Film Center, a Los Angeles non-profit neighborhood media arts center with a focus on analog film education and resources. Along with Paolo Davanzo, Lisa launched EPFC North in 2019; they are currently Artists In Residence at Moberly Fieldhouse, Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver).