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(Tending) (to) (Ta)
2021, 66 minutes
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Canada

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Two people facing each other, the left one with dark brown skin and the other with very light skin. The background is a pastel green with some hanging flowers coming into frame. They are both wearing beige baggy clothing. They both have short black hair and they are in close proximity, staring into one another's eyes. The left person has orange coloring trailing from their lip to their chin and another orange mark on their arm that holds a cup.
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(Tending) (to) (Ta) is a mind-bending work of speculative fiction that follows an exchange of letters between two protagonists who imagine one another across parallel dimensions. Each communicating to an other who exists as a possibility beyond their self-perceived boundaries of reality, the two beings meet in a shared world of imagination. In the figure of the eponymous protagonist, April Lin 林森 meshes the concepts of ‘ta’, the monosyllabic sound that in Mandarin Chinese encompasses all third person pronouns, with the proper noun Ta, creating an infinite cosmic entity who exists across universes and is present in all beings and matter.

Toronto Queer Film Festival. “April Lin,” n.d. https://torontoqueerfilmfest.com/archive/tqff-year-2022/festival-2022/feature1/.

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