Join us in the Paul-Desmarais Theatre on 22 March 2025 for a screening of 进岛方向 / Into the Island / À travers l’île (CCA, 2024, 41 min) as part of the 43rd edition of the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA).

In the summer of 2022, DnA_Design and Architecture was invited to design a potential museum building on Meizhou Island. Famous as the site which gave birth to the cult of the sea goddess Mazu, the island is an environment where religious pilgrimages and mass tourism, traditional farming techniques, and strict conservation policies co-exist in a fragile balance.

Into the Island follows Xu Tiantian and the DnA team in their discovery of the essential elements, pressure points, and issues related to the destabilizing terrain of the ocean and its delicate ecosystem. Directed by Joshua Frank, this film is a snapshot of a fluid design process, a story of encounters, and a narrative composed through the fragments of an evolving culture and fluctuating landscape.

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