
Crystal Palace (2024) by Linda Izcali Scobie
Friday, August 29, 2025, 9:30 pm
CROSSROADS 2025 – program 2
certain lights / nothing is stable
CROSSROADS opening night culminates with Celluloid Between the Wounds (World Premiere), a visceral sound and image convergence of legendary Portland sound artist Daniel Menche and Karl Lemieux, a Montréal-based filmmaker known for projection work with Godspeed You! Black Emperor and for his own alchemical films and multi-projector performances. In collaboration, Menche’s massive, textural drones and percussive detonations seem to awaken something subterranean while Lemieux’s flickering visuals melt, collapse and resurrect with each improvised gesture. Nothing is stable and caught in the tension between precision and chaos, in a shared physical space vibrating with the energy of the now. Performance is preceded by Linda Izcali Scobie’s flickering double-projector Crystal Palace and the CROSSROADS festival opener A Certain Light by Nicole Remy, a sensuous and circling lo-fi pinhole exploration.
SCREENING:
A Certain Light (2024) by Nicole Remy (Peru); digital video, color, sound, 15 minutes. Crystal Palace (2024) by Linda Izcali Scobie (US); 2x16mm, color, sound, 8 minutes. Celluloid Between the Wounds (2025) by Karl Lemieux (Canada) & Daniel Menche (US); 35–45 minutes. TRT: 69 minutes
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CROSSROADS 2025

A Certain Light by Nicole Remy
A Certain Light is a journey through the different processes of capturing light through pinholes, accompanied by a cassette recorder during my residency at Nanolab (Daylesford, Australia). It’s a step between indoors and outdoors, between moving forward and circling back. It’s about the space I inhabit, walk through, and capture. north american premiere

Crystal Palace (2024) by Linda Izcali Scobie
Two films align as a languid meditation on motion, color, pattern and joy. A collaboration between filmmaker Linda Izcali Scobie and musician John Davis for John’s 2024 LP release Landlines. (Linda Izcali Scobie)

Celluloid Between the Wounds (2025) by Karl Lemieux & Daniel Menche
Visceral sound and abstract animation converge in a raw audiovisual performance. Noise artist Daniel Menche conjures a seismic wall of sound—dense and physical—while filmmaker Karl Lemieux manipulates 16mm film loops in real time across multiple projectors. Menche’s massive, textural drones and percussive detonations stir a sense of elemental unrest while Lemieux’s flickering visuals collapse and resurrect with each improvised gesture. Nothing is stable and caught in the tension between precision and chaos, in a shared physical space vibrating with the energy of the now. (Karl Lemieux) world premiere
Nicole Remy (Peru): Filmmaker based in Madrid since 2021 where she studied in LAV- Audiovisual Creation and Contemporary Practice. Her work focuses on structural cinema, working with the limitations, and therefore possibilities, of the movie camera and film support. With an interest in visual perception, she dedicates herself to research different manual ways of creating images, whether through the construction of pinhole cameras or exploring different ways to create and perceive movement.
Linda Izcali Scobie (US) is a filmmaker, programmer and projectionist living in San Francisco. She formerly served as the Assistant Director of Canyon Cinema, one of the world’s oldest distributors of experimental and avant-garde film, and was on the Board of Directors for Artists’ Television Access. Her 16mm film work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at film festivals and venues such as the Ann Arbor Film Festival, LA Film Forum, Antimatter, Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City and XCÈNTRIC, Barcelona. In 2018, she was the Artist in Residence at White Leaves Residency in New Mexico. She is currently a Senior Projectionist at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley.
Daniel Menche is an experimental musician from Portland OR. His extensive history of recording and performance spans three decades and counting. Menche’s sonic abstractions manifest through intense noise, immersive drones, dense ambiance, poly-rhythmic percussion, turbulent nature field recordings, abused acoustic instruments and many other sources. His music is adventurous in execution as well as presentation, creating an absolute, abstract sonic world. Marked with a restless enthusiasm and preternatural expressionism, Menche’s compositions typically arrange themselves through organic, seemingly subconscious systems of logic. At times, a Menche composition can be a cathartic experience of obliterated sonic particles; at others, a heavy mantle can descend upon his rough tones to offer a darkly immersive introspection.
Karl Lemieux’ (Canada) work is inspired by the dialogue that occurs between film, music and sound art. At the heart of his practice, the importance of the cinematographic apparatus and the attachment to celluloid are essential. His films, installations and performances have screened internationally in museums, galleries, music venues and film festivals including the Montreal Contemporary Arts Museum, the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna and the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. He is known for his collaboration with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a Montreal music collective for which he has done live 16mm film projections since 2010. He is also the co-founder of Double Négatif, a Montreal-based collective dedicated to the production and dissemination of experimental films.