Screening with 2025 BAICC Resident Juana Robles
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) present
A SCREENING WITH 2025 BAICC RESIDENT
JUANA ROBLES
Join the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at 7:00pm for a screening of works from our BAICC 2025 artist Juana Robles.
Juana Robles is an Ireland-based filmmaker, living and working in Kilkenny, Ireland. Her work, often created with analog formats, explores the body, identity, memory, and resilience through immersive, tactile cinema. Drawing from performance and ritual, she blurs personal and collective histories.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Starts at 7:00pm
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
1137 Dupont Street, Main Classroom
Admission: Free for LIFT Members, $5.00 for Non-Members
Cash only at the door
Join us afterwards for a short Q&A with the filmmaker.
Juana Robles (b. 1983, Tortosa, Spain) is a Kilkenny-based artist-filmmaker. Her work, often created with analog techniques like 16mm and Super 8mm, explores the body, identity, memory, and resilience through immersive, tactile cinema. Drawing from performance and ritual, she blurs personal and collective histories. Juana has studied at the Lucerne School of Art and Design and Zurich University of the Arts. Her films have been shown at festivals worldwide, including Perth International Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema, Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival Zurich, and exhibited in art contexts like CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow and Askeaton Contemporary Arts. Single works by Juana Robles are distributed by Light Cone (Paris) and Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris). She is also a co-founder of Out of Focus, an initiative in Kilkenny dedicated to avant-garde cinema, and has contributed to the experimental film community through her roles at festivals like Videoex and the Lausanne Underground Film Festival (LUFF). https://www.homerunjr.com
PROGRAM: Running Time 45 min
“Alicia”
Black and White, 2024
Super8/16mm-2K DCP, 00:25:27
Shot on location in Paris and Zurich
Originally shot on Super 8mm film and partially blown up to 16mm for the creation of collages made up of abstract and composed photograms, the film explores in a medium specific way the self-experimental search for artistic, gender and sexual identity of movement artist Toma Alice Péronnet. Toma Alice Péronnet (1962 Paris, France) is a movement artist/teacher and former architect based in Zurich Switzerland. The connection between art and daily life as well as the game between egocentrism and self distance, characterises their artistic work. The rebirth and development of the figure Alicia, that they originally created in 2004, can be considered the most complex part of their work and life. They use their body as dispositive – a medium available for transformation in order to explore their sexual ambivalence and polyvalence treating gender and sex as a constant changing performative act. Toma Alice Péronnet converts the public space into a “stage of living art” for spontaneous interactions.
“2nd Lock”
Colour and Black and White, 2025
16mm-2K DCP, 00:19:20,
Shot on location in Dublin
Part of the Bodyverses series, this film follows Dublin artist Frances Mezzetti as she explores her lifelong bond with her sister Maria through performance. Over the course of a year, Frances navigates caregiving, memory, and emotional responsibility, revisiting pivotal moments from Maria’s childhood and major life transitions. Site-specific performances at the family’s former home and the Grand Canal in Dublin, alongside intimate studio work, create a space for reflection, transformation, and release. The film engages with themes of healing, connection, and the enduring power of performance art to process personal and collective histories, transforming everyday gestures and materials into a meditation on family, care, and emotional resilience.
Juana Robles’ residency is made possible in part through support from (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico and the Acción Cultural Española (AC/E).
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(S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico is a unique event held in A Coruña, Spain focused on avant-garde cinema and small gauge film formats, where filmmakers, journalists, film professionals, students and a passionate audience from all over the world meet around leading figures of cinema and contemporary filmmakers. https://s8cinema.com
Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) is a state agency for the promotion of culture. It fosters the Spanish creative and cultural sectors through a broad program of activities, fostering the internationalisation of creative professionals, with initiatives such as artist residencies. Projects supported by AC/E underline the diverse Spanish contribution to the global culture, as well as recent contributions of Spanish talent in the main creative fields. https://www.accioncultural.es/en
The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) is Canada’s foremost artist-run production and education organization dedicated to celebrating excellence in the moving image. LIFT exists to provide support and encouragement for independent filmmakers and artists through affordable access to production, post-production and exhibition equipment; professional and creative development; workshops and courses; commissioning and exhibitions; artist residencies; and a variety of other services. http://lift.ca
LIFT is supported by self-generated revenue as well as the following year-round funders: the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA), the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), Ontario Arts Foundation, the Government of Ontario and the Toronto Arts Council (TAC).
As a charitable organization, LIFT graciously accepts donations via our CanadaHelps page. If you would like to support our filmmaking community, please visit https://lift.ca/donate
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For additional information please see https://lift.ca or e-mail LIFT Executive Director Chris Kennedy at director@lift.ca
Wednesday 29 October 2025 –
Non-members: $5.00
Members: Free
Location:
Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT)
1137 Dupont Street
Toronto Ontario Canada