Surface Rites, film stills, 2021.
Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid)
PRESS
- “The Gift of Charity: Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko’s Charity and Surface Rites” by Cayley James in Cinema Scope, issue 89, Winter 2022: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SAuKXaRlMxL_qXEBtcD_CTdfPg9CRHtt/view?usp=sharing
ADDITIONAL INFO
Produced with the support of Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Media City Film Festival’s Chrysalis Fellowship
Surface Rites runs parallel to the NFB-produced web documentary called Charity, presented as part of the Greater Toronto Art 2021 (GTA21) exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto.
SCREENING HISTORY
- Selected Works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Visions, Montreal, Canada, Oct 5, 2023: https://visionsmtl.com/2023/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-ryan-ferko-2/
- Cinéma Public, Montréal, Canada, June 2023: https://cinemapublic.ca/en/films/rites-of-passage/
- Selected Works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, e-flux Screening Room, New York, USA, April 13, 2023: https://www.e-flux.com/events/529626/parastoo-anoushahpour-faraz-anoushahpour-and-ryan-ferko-selected-works/
- Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Porto, Portugal, July 2022: https://www.festival.curtas.pt/en/film/fc-42/
- Film works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, EXIS, Seoul, South Korea, June 2022
- Film works of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada, June 2022
- Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France & Berlin, Germany, May 2022
- European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), April 20-24, 2022: https://www.emaf.de/work/?id=35886
- Berlinale, Berlin, Germany, Feb 10-20, 2022: https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/forum-forum-expanded/forum-expanded-program/films/surface-rites/
- Media City 25th Anniversary Virtual Edition, Feb 8 - Mar 10, 2022: https://mediacityfilmfestival.com/25th-anniversary/
- GTA21 at Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada, Sept 2020-Jan 2021: https://moca.ca/gta2021-home/