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In the Dreaming House: Keith Lock Retrospective
2026-05-29 / 18:00 – 21:00
In the Dreaming House
The closing of the “Keith Lock’s Intimate Diasporas” retrospective
Following screenings throughout the week at the Cinémathèque québécoise and La Métropolitaine, join us for a program of short films directed by Keith Lock highlighting his deep commitment to Toronto’s Chinatown and the Chinese diaspora in Canada. The program opens with a documentary chronicling his return to the Buck Lake site, fifty years after the filming of his cult classic “Everything Everywhere Again Alive.”
Movie List (92 min total):
- Return to Buck Lake (2021, 36 min)
- Chinatown (1984, 25 min)
- The Dreaming House (2005, 6 min)
- The Road Chosen: The Lem Wong Story (1997, 23 min)
- LOCK DOWN (2020, 2 min)
Friday, May 29, 2026
6pm, doors open at 5h30pm.
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office Montreal (TECO)
112 de la Gauchetière O. (3rd floor)
Keith Lock’s Intimate Diasporas Retrospective
Presented May 25–30, 2026, by Panorama-cinéma and the Cinémathèque québécoise, in collaboration with the Miao Collective, the JIA Foundation, the Festival Accès Asie, and Tënk Canada, Keith Lock’s Intimate Diasporas invites viewers to discover the first Chinese-Canadian filmmaker, whose body of work spans from the 1960s to the present day. A former assistant to Michael Snow and Claude Jutra, Keith Lock is the creator of a body of work that is unique in Quebec and deeply diverse, combining experimental and documentary approaches in the service of fiction and even animation, always with the primary goal of capturing what allows community life to emerge and endure.
Each screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker. Thursday’s screening will be followed by a discussion between Keith Lock and three filmmakers from the Asiate en court competition at the Accès Asie Festival: Rui Ting Ji, Gavin Seal, and kimura-byol lemoine. A creative workshop with Keith Lock (free, in English) will take place on Saturday at the Maison du Quartier chinois de Montréal.
As part of Asian Heritage Month, the retrospective and the accompanying magazine feature (coming May 25) were prepared by Audrey Jiang (Miao Collective) and Mathieu Li-Goyette (Panorama-cinéma), with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Conseil des arts de Montréal.
Consult the Panorama-cinéma website for more information on the program: https://www.panorama-cinema.com/V2/article.php?categorie=5&id=1384