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Bernard Schütze

FIFA 2023: Afterimages and Reflections

Montréal International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA)
March 14 –
March 26, 2023

The 41st edition of the Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) cast a large and festive net to usher in this first post COVID-19 pandemic in-person event. In addition to a copious offering dedicated to the arts in a broad sense, the festival provided a fine selection of films focused on the visual arts per se. For this overview, after viewing a wide gamut of films, I narrowed my choices down to three films that speak more directly to developments or issues related to the contemporary art domain.

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Raphael Castoriano and Gustavo Travieso, Carlos Gomez Centurión: I Say Mercedario, 2022. 12 min. Photo: courtesy of FIFA 2023.
Raphael Castoriano and Gustavo Travieso, Carlos Gomez Centurión: I Say Mercedario, 2022. 12 min. Photo: courtesy of FIFA 2023.
Michael Snow,1986. Headshot. Photo: courtesy of FIFA 2023.
Michael Snow, WVLNT – WAVELENGTH For Those Who Don’t Have the Time: Originally 45 minutes, now 15!, 2003. 15 mins. Photo: courtesy of FIFA 2023.
Michael Snow, See You Later / Au Revoir, 1990. 17 min. Photo: courtesy of FIFA 2023.
Michael Snow, So is This, 1982. 43 min. Photo: courtesy of FIFA 2023.
Liam Gillick, Ali Janka, Florian Reither, Tobias Urban and Wolfgang Ganther, Stinking Dawn, 2023. 1 h 32 min. Photo: courtesy of FIFA 2023.