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Some stories cannot be told in a straight line.🎞️🎥
Born in the Philippines and raised in Québec, filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist @desmjz creates deeply personal work that explores adoption, memory, belonging and the power of experimental storytelling.

Read the full interview on Liyana Magazine. LINK IN BIO 🔗

📸 @audreyeve.beauchamp by @desmjz

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WEAVING IDENTITY is a hybrid documentary exploring the layered, fragmented, and interwoven dimensions of identity through the lived experience of a Filipina–Québécoise adoptee. Blending film, textile, gesture, sound, and archives, the project unfolds in a series of scenes that map the complex terrain of belonging, silence, and diaspora. #weavingidentityfilm taken in Montreal, Canada by @desmjz

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| Silence as Survival |

This form of silence is connected to the right not to be fully understood, explained, or exposed to others. Silence here appears in two forms: it can protect personal boundaries and one’s experience, It can also be a deliberate choice not to speak and stay hidden. In this sense, silence is a form of protection and a strategy for survival.

Nova Jeonghyun Park, Requiem for My Unborn Sister (USA & South Korea)
Antoine Scalese, Women by the river (Switzerland)
Erica Schreiner, Photosynthesis (USA)
Marie-Josée Desharnais, SURRENDERED (Canada)
Sarasa Kikuchi, 13 Hours Ahead (USA)
Lisa Kusanagi, Pasa Pasa (Japan & USA)

16 September | 19:00 screening begins
Césure @cesure.paris | 13 Rue Santeuil, 75005 Paris

Full programme | link in bio taken in Paris, France by @desmjz

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DEAFENING SILENCE brings together experimental films and moving-image works that explore silence not as an absence, but as an active condition shaped by catastrophe, power, refusal, and survival.

The programme unfolds in three interconnected chapters: After the Explosion, Enforced Silence, and Silence as Survival. It traces how silence can emerge in the aftermath of destruction, be imposed by social and political structures, or become a means of protection and resistance.

16 September | 19:00 screening begins
Césure @cesure.paris | 13 Rue Santeuil, 75005 Paris

Full programme | link in bio taken in Paris, France by @desmjz

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Next we have an experimental documentary short from Marie-Josée Desharnais of Montréal, SURRENDERED.

“The film is a 2:30 experimental short exploring the body under psychological pressure through a non-narrative, sensory approach. It engages with themes of trauma, dissociation, and survival, without explicit depiction or conventional genre framing.“

Come expand your mind! Wednesday August 12 9PM-1AM @ @graciestaxbar for OST’s Femxle Filmmakers showcase hosted by @fm__lou ! by @desmjz

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« For those who are neither quite from here nor quite from there. » - @desmjz x @weavingidentityfilm taken in Montreal, Canada by @desmjz

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5 months ago

by @desmjz

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🎥 @jean.michel.martin x @erick__mur | 🎙️ @tiago_nicoll | ✍🏽 @desmjz | 🗣️ @lorrakida @desmjz | 📸 @desmjz | 🎞️ @desmjz | 📍 @studio.shems x @junior.hifi x la casita, CDMX by @desmjz

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May 30 6:30pm | @festivalaccesasie @cinemathequeqc taken in Cinémathèque québécoise by @desmjz

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MJMT.CA by @desmjz

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SURRENDERED, my first film, a short selected by @festivalaccesasie. It will be my first premiere at @cinemathequeqc on May 30 | 6:30pm taken in Cinémathèque québécoise by @desmjz

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📹 @jean.michel.martin | 👩🏽 @desmjz | 📍 @studio.shems x @junior.hifi by @desmjz

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