Revelers March from the Castle
Still from Covenant of Schwitters’ Army, film by Ric Kasini Kadour.
FILM SCREENING
Collage on Screen 2025 Montreal
6PM, Friday, 3 October 2025
Location: Cinéma Public, 505 Jean-Talon East [MAP]
Collage on Screen, an eclectic evening of moving images, is part of Kolaj Institute’s Collage in Motion project, which explores collage and the moving image, a broad, loosely defined category that includes animations, film cut-ups, collage film, stop-motion, documentaries about collage artists, and other forms of media in which collage—as medium or genre—is present. Ric Kasini Kadour will be screening two films for the first time in Montreal.
Joy Is Paper
by Ric Kasini Kadour.
film, 7:06 minutes; 2024
This short film documents The Paper Parade, a walking Carnival parade organized by the Mystic Krewe of Scissors & Glue in New Orleans that took place in January 2024. The film shows participants in the Joy as Subject: Mardi Gras Artist Residency as they prepare for the event and then as they join members of the Krewe and The Recycle Challenge Krewe as they parade through the streets of The Bywater Neighborhood.
She Works the Paper into a Dress
Still from Joy Is Paper, film by Ric Kasini Kadour.
Covenant of Schwitters’ Army
by Ric Kasini Kadour
film; 9:38 minutes; 2022
The Schwitters’ Army Collection of Collage Art is a permanent collection of international collage art at MERZ Gallery in Sanquhar, Scotland. The contributing artists are referred to as Veterans of Schwitters’ Army. The Schwitters’ Army Project is a performative piece of culture work that includes history making, event documentation, and archive building that demonstrates how art movements are manufactured. The Project operates through a series of declarations issued by the Convenor, Curator and Representative of Schwitters’ Army Ric Kasini Kadour, V.S.A. These documents are signed and witnessed and generate ephemera which is placed in the archive. Declarations are both real documents and pieces of performance art in the vein of Yves Klein’s Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility. In 2022, Kadour held a reunion of Veterans of Schwitters’ Army where they paraded through the Scottish countryside and unveiled a historic blue plaque on the walls of MERZ. The film, Covenant of Schwitters’ Army, is a reading of the primary declaration with footage from that event.