nothing else matters

nothing else matters

NOLA BAGGIO | CANADA | 2026 | 11 MIN | ENGLISH

NOLA BAGGIO | CANADA | 2026 | 11 MIN | ENGLISH

IN-CINEMAVIRTUALShortI+N CONNEXE

NOV 26 / 19:00ONF Salle Alanis-Obomsawin NFB Alanis Obomsawin Theatre1500 Rue Balmoral. Montréal, QC H3A 2H7 (métro Place des Arts)

Synopsis

A trans woman, forcibly detained in a dark room, undergoes an inner journey of reconciliation, coming to understand the inevitability of her own existence.

Filmmaker Bio

Nola Baggio is a Canadian media artist, filmmaker, and photographer based in Montréal. She holds a BFA in Film Production from Concordia University. In dialogue with diverse communities across the city, her practice questions and queers the everyday dynamics shaping our relationships with others and ourselves. Her work i forgot you the moment the light turned green — Figure 0 was presented in the REGARDE! 2026–2027 exhibition. In 2025, she received the Susan Schouten Documentary Film Award for documentary filmmaking addressing social justice issues, as well as the Nicholas Racz Memorial Scholarship.

Director's Statement

I have often explored my relationship with the body through visual elements; in this work, I approach it through sound instead. […] The film’s soundscape is composed entirely of contact microphone recordings of the human body, amplifying movements and vibrations that become perceptible only through prolonged silence and sensory isolation. The film approaches the trans body as a site of alienation and inflicted violence, but also as a profoundly personal and affirming space. […] At the limits of suffering and solitude, a fleeting metaphysical perspective on the permanence of one’s own existence becomes possible.

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