diario de verano (2025) by anivides

diario de verano is an exploration of neighborhood flora in Tkaronto, focusing on Kensington Market, Parkdale and Wallace – Emmerson, areas we live and move through. Experimentation with abstract movement and the physical, compositional properties of foraged materials, strengthened our community/kinship to the land and each other. Artistic practices were explored and shared through gathering rituals, stop motion animation and phytograms, creating complex layers of ourselves intertwined through our latinx identities in this short film.

Awards:

  • Best Animated Film at Moss Farm - Film and Arts Invitational  at Meristem - Fair Oaks, California

Festival Screenings:

2026

  • The Little Free Cinema - Toronto

  • Anifilm at Liberec - Czech Republic

  • Blue House Film at The Cooperage MKE - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  • Flickerdrift at Urban Room Folkestone - Folkestone, United Kingdom

  •  “Petit Animac, Short and Sweet” Program at International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia (Animac), La Llotja theatre, Lleida, Spain 

2025

  • Illuminarium, diario de verano installation, Loveyou4ever and MakeRoomInc  Showcase - Toronto

  • Freshwater Festival - Collingwood Ontario

  • Difusion, Kino-Apéro - Bruselles, Belgium

  • “Silent Interference” program for Turtle Chamber Video Art Showcase- Taoyuan City, Taiwan

  • “Language” program at L’Alternativa 32nd Festival de Cinema Independent De Barcelona at Centre De Cultura Contemporània De Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain  

  • Analogica 15 - PR 4 - Bolzano, Italy

  • The 19th Annual TAIS Animation Showcase at Royal Theatre, Toronto

  • Planet in Focus Film Festival at Paradise Theatre - Toronto

  • “Crossings & Kinships” program at aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival at CineCycle - Toronto

  • “Animal Eye” program at Antimatter [Media Art] at Deluge - Victoria

  • Moss Farm - Film and Arts Invitational  at Meristem - Fair Oaks, California

  • Nature & Culture International Poetry Film Festival at Huset Biograf - Coppenhagan, Denmark, STPLN The Lab - Malmö, Sweden  and the Calgary Public Library, Central - Calgary

  • “Selección Oficial Categoría Internacional” at Intermediaciones de Videoarte y Cine Experimental - Medellín, Colombia 

  • Open call: “wndrlnd” at WNDX Festival of Moving Image - Rachel Browne Theatre - Winnipeg 

  • “aDifferent Program 1 | Anadromes” as part of aCinema - Woodland Pattern - Milwaukee 

  • “Wide Angle 1 Program” as part of the Sommets Du Cinéma D’Animation - Cinémathèque Québécoise- Montréal

  • Kissed by the Sun Media Installation as part of Dawson City International Short Film Festival. (April 18th-20th) - ODD Gallery - DawsonCity

2024

  • “The Botanical Turn” diario de verano rough cut, curated by Dandelion Collective - Playhouse Cinema- Hamilton