Festival Accès Asie – Siapo viliata o le atumotu and other embodied stories from the living world

Co-presented by Festival Accès Asie and Festival Filministes, in collaboration with MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels)

Screening + Q&A with Léuli Eshrāghi

Léuli Eshrāghi unveils their recent video works exploring Indigiqueer and embodied memory and joy, through their unique perspective as a Indigenous, Sāmoan, Persian, Cantonese, and European artist, poet, and curator. The artwork will then be discussed in a bilingual exchange with Nayla Naoufal.

Léuli Eshrāghi’s artistic, critical and curatorial practice prioritizes global Indigenous, Asian and Black visuality, sensual and spoken languages, and ceremonial-political practices. They are also the Curator of Indigenous Arts at the The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA).

Shorts films presented in this special screening :

• afiafi (2023, 5 min)
• TAFA (((O))) ATA (2020, 1 min)
• AOAULI (VILIATA) (2020/22, 4 min)
• re(cul)naissance (2020, 3 min)
• L’hétérosexualité samoane est une performance chrétienne pour le temps de la honte grégorien (2019, 6 min)
• SOGI MAI (2016, 1 min)
• tino manaia (2016, 2 min)
• Golden flow of the Merri yaluk (Joe Joe Orangias et Léuli Eshrāghi – 2015, 10 min)