© Mika Yatsuhashi - An Uninterrupted View of the Sea
Film Screening
Thursday, April 23 2026, 7PM* - 8:30PM
*doors open at 6:30PM
Free entry, no reservation
Event in French and English
As part of the exhibition A Border is Made of Papers, GIV presents a special screening night featuring a selection of video works that explore borders, migration, and identities in motion. Through personal stories, archival materials, and experimental forms, films by kimura byol lemoine, Mika Yatsuhashi, Ayesha Hameed, Julieta Maria, and Charmaine Dayle examine the fragile lines separating citizen and outsider, memory and territory.
The films, all part of the GIV collection, were selected by the exhibition curators. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the audience, moderated by kimura byol lemoine.
Limited capacity. Admission on a first-come, first-served basis.
Program
Du Canada/From Canada – kimura byol lemoine
Germany | 2012 | French | 01:40
Excerpts from a letter by Immigration Canada ordering me to leave the country immediately, set to the Canadian national anthem.
An Uninterrupted View of the Sea – Mika Yatsuhashi
Canada/USA | 2021 | English (French subtitles) | 15:08
Using old photographs, Super 8 film, and FBI documents, a Japanese-American filmmaker tells the story of her family’s struggle to prove their citizenship during World War II, exploring the tension between being labeled “Alien” and “Citizen.”
Ask Fay – Charmaine Dayle
Quebec | 1994 | English | 18:35
A documentary portrait of the Jamaican Women’s Network, offering a glimpse into the experiences and stories of Jamaican women in Quebec.
Fire, Fences, Flight – Ayesha Hameed
Canada | 2007 | English | 06:13
Exploration of the connections between migration, borders, and human tragedy. The events highlighted include a fire at a detention center in Amsterdam and an electrocution accident in a Paris suburb.
Findings – Julieta Maria
Colombia/Canada | 2007 | Spanish (English subtitles) | 08:43
Four fragmentary testimonies trace the history of the filmmaker’s paternal family, who migrated from Palestine to Colombia in the 1920s, accompanied by archival photographs.
Au Canada – kimura byol lemoine
Canada | 2014 | French | 01:40
Two years after an expulsion notice, the filmmaker returns to Canada with a letter from Immigration Canada welcoming her back.
This activity is part of a public program made possible with the financial support of the Observatoire des médiations culturelles (OMEC).
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