Presented by Ed Video Media Arts Centre’s Analog Mayhem

Ukobola Lina still #1 by Sonya Mwambu

Saturday, July 18th 2026 | 9PM

Glencolton Farms — 393889 Concession Rd 2, Durham, ON N0G 1R0

Sonya Mwambu’s performance is envisioned as a layered, live composition that brings archival memory into a shifting, embodied present. Drawing from oral histories and Ugandan origin narratives, they work across a continuum of sound and image—combining 16mm film projection, digital media, and responsive sonic elements to create an environment where memory is not fixed, but actively re-formed. Projected onto fabric and textile surfaces that move with airflow, the image itself becomes unstable, echoing the distortions and gaps inherent in inherited histories.

Mwambu may intervene directly within the projection—writing, marking, or altering the image in real time—while collaborating sound and audio-reactive visuals expand the work into an immersive, spatial experience. The result is a performance that treats analog technologies not as nostalgic tools, but as living systems for transmitting, questioning, and reanimating cultural memory.”

Sonya Mwambu is an experimental filmmaker and editor based in Toronto. Born in Kampala, they grew up in Canada and their work centres on the intersections of their identities through the exploration of race, gender, language and the connections they find through the experimentations of analogue film and digital technologies. Their films have screened at Nuit Blanche Toronto, the8fest, McMaster Museum of Art, Toronto Queer Film Festival, Mono No Aware Cinema Arts Festival and the Slamdance Film Festival.Their work has also been published in qumra journal and The Archive of Forgetfulness supported by the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg. Their last project was an interactive installation, ‘mountains never meet, but people do’, completed as part of a residency at Charles Street Video. Mwambu holds a BFA in Film Production from York University and is pursuing an MFA in Film.

Analog Mayhem is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts through the Arts Across Canada and Abroad program.