09/01/2026
We’re honoured to present The Tree of Cinema, a new monumental public installation created exclusively for TIFF TIFF ’26 by Alina.tacmelova.art Alina Tacmelova and Yury Goncharov Yury Goncharov.
The work explores cinema as a living archive of collective memory.
Its steel trunk represents the structural and technological foundations of filmmaking. Rising above it, a canopy of flowing film strips brings together iconic moments from cinematic history with photographs of audiences watching, gathering, laughing, and reflecting.
For us, cinema does not end when a film is completed. It continues through the people who experience it, remember it, discuss it, and carry it forward.
By placing audiences alongside images from film history, The Tree of Cinema suggests that viewers are not simply spectators, but an essential part of cinema’s living legacy. Every encounter adds another layer to an ever-growing collective archive of memory, storytelling, and shared experience.
We are deeply honoured to create this work for TIFF and to see it become part of the public life of the festival.
The Tree of Cinema
by Alina Tacmelova & Yury Goncharov
📍 TIFF’s Festival Street — King Street West, Toronto
📅 September 10–13, 2026
About the artists
Alina Tacmelova alina.tacmelova.doc and Yury Goncharov are Toronto-based multidisciplinary artists whose collaborative practice explores memory, identity, belonging, and collective experience through public art, installation, film, sculpture, and participatory projects.
Looking forward to seeing The Tree of Cinema come to life at TIFF ’26.