Images Festival 2013

My favourite time of the year: Images Festival!!!!!!! A week packed full of experimental delights!  Opening night (Thursday, April 11, 2013 @ 8PM at St. Anne's Anglican Church) is not to be missed... Musician Tim Hecker with experimental filmmaker Robert Todd.  

Check out a program of local work while you are at it with mmNemonic DVices (Saturday, April 13, 2013 @ 10:30PM at Jackman Hall).

A re-embodied performance of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope arranged by local performance artist Francesco Gagliardi (Friday, April 12 @ 3PM, Saturday, April 13 @ 3PM, Sunday, April 14 @ 3PM and Tuesday, April 16 @ 7PM at Theatre Centre) is a must see!

I would also highly recommend Jody Mack's Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (Friday, April 19 @ 10:30 at Cinecycle).   

Finally, the OPEN SCREEN is back!!!!!!!!!  If you make films and videos bring them out to Cinecycle on Friday, April 19 @ 11:30PM!!!!! - Clint Enns

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Images Screenings in a Nutshell 

(be sure to check out the Images website for a full listing of events including PARTIES, talks and exhibitions):

Thursday, April 11, 2013

8:00PM @ St. Anne's Anglican Church.

Opening Night Gala: Live Images w/ Tim Hecker + Robert Todd, SlowPitch 

Friday, April 12, 2013

3:00PM @ Theatre Centre

Film: Rope - Francesco Gagliardi 

6:30PM @ Jackman Hall, AGO 

Canadian Spotlight

A Memory Lasts Forever: Althea Thauberger

Program:

not afraid to die - Althea Thauberger

Oh Canada - Althea Thauberger

A Memory Lasts Forever - Althea Thauberger

Northern - Althea Thauberger

Zivildienst ≠ Kunstproject - Althea Thauberger

Msaskok - Althea Thauberger

9:00PM @ Jackman Hall, AGO

Suitcase of Love and Shame - Jane Gilooly

Saturday, April 13, 2013

3:00PM @ Theatre Centre

Film: Rope - Francesco Gagliardi

6:00PM @ Jackman Hall, AGO

Leaf in the Wind

Program:

Next Week - Guy Wouete 

Fleurs de Lys - Michèle Magema

Leaf In The Wind - Jean-Marie Teno 

8:00PM @ Jackman Hall, AGO

All That Is Solid

Program:

Un film inédit - Gordon Webber

Museum of the Imagination - Amit Dutta

Quartet for the End of Time - Deanna Erdmann

A Third Version of the Imaginary - Benjamin Tiven

48 Heads From Merkurov Museum (after Kurt Kren) - Anna Artaker

In My Room - Chance Taylor

The Invisible World - Jesse McLean

10:30PM @ Jackman Hall, AGO

mmNemonic DVices

Curator: Blake Williams, Julian Carrington, Nick Benidt

Program:

You Are Here - Leslie Supnet

Shadow Puppet - Yi Cui

Oracle - Mani Mazinani

Half Way There - Karen Henderson

The Timeslide - Ariana Andrei

Christ Church - St. James - Stephen Broomer

Days of Future Past - Joe Hambleton

Separate Vacations - Cameron Moneo

The Pool - Christine Lucy Latimer

Ten S̶k̶i̶e̶s̶  - Clint Enns

rapidTransfer - John Creson & Adam Rosen

Summer Solstice, 11 pm, Jordaan - Albert Wisco

Sunday, April 14

3:00PM @ Theatre Centre

Film: Rope - Francesco Gagliardi

6:30PM @ Jackman Hall 

Sleight of Hand

Program:

Torque - Björn Kämmerer

Ten Minutiae - Peter Miller

Early Figure - Brian Virostek

Passage Upon the Plume - Fern Silva

Sugar Beach - Mark Loeser

Stone - Kevin Jerome Everson

Maître-Vent - Simon Quéhiellard

addy CHOO - JB Mabe

9:00PM @ Jackman Hall, AGO

Lukas The Strange

Program:

Light Streaming - Kathleen Rugh

Lukas nino (Lukas The Strange) - John Torres

Monday, April 15

6:30PM @ Jackman Hall, AGO 

Borders/Bodies: International Student Showcase

Curator: Taimaz Moslemian, Cameron Moneo, Zoë Heyn-Jones

Program:

Poppy Fields Forever - John Warren

A Changed Landscape - Tijana Petrovic

Heart of Durham - Joel Wanek

Trying to Build a Sentence - Susanna Flock

Factory - Bruno Ramos

Snail Trail - Philipp Artus

Ground and Body - Undine Sommer

White House - Georg Koszulinski

To Love is to Let Go? - Sausan Saulat

Harbour's Puddle - Lucie Mercandal

King Kong - Gurpreet Sehra

Young Money - Jennifer Chan

9:00PM @ Jackman Hall

Rhythm and Reflection

Program:

Bloom - Scott Stark

I Remember A Film About Joe Brainard - Matt Wolf

Pastoral - JB Mabe

Dad's Stick - John Smith

Charlie's Proof - Kevin Jerome Everson

Woolworth's Choir - Elizabeth Price

Tuesday, April 16

7:00PM @ Theatre Centre

Film: Rope - Francesco Gagliardi

9:00PM @ Cinecycle

Scoring Cinecyle

Lina Allemano Four Scoring 

The Existentialist - Leon Prochnik 

Allures - Jordan Belson 

- Eucalyptus Scoring 

Kisses 

Del Bel Scoring 

Überfall - Adolf Trotz

Wednesday, April 17

7:00PM @ Jackman Hall, AGO

Babette Mangolte Spotlight

Program:

Edward Krasiński's Studio - Babette Mangolte

Water Motor - Babette Mangolte

There? Where? - Babette Mangolte

9:00PM @ Jackman Hall, AGO 

Beautiful People - David Wojnarowicz

Thursday, April 18

6:30PM @ Jackman Hall, AGO

Before Our Eyes

Program:

Sight - Thirza Jean Cuthand

This Town of Toronto... - Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof

Strata of Natural History - Jeanette Munoz

memento mori - Dan Browne

9214 - Takahiro Suzuki

Underscore (_) Subguión - Jorge Lozano 

9:00PM @ Jackman Hall, AGO

Maintenance - Adele Horne

Friday, April 19

6:30PM @ Jackman Hall, AGO

Your Day is My Night - Lynne Sachs

8:30PM @ Jackman Hall, AGO

Patterns

Curator: Elena Duque

Program:

Etude Cinematographique sur un arabesque - Germaine Dulac

Pixelación Laboral - Chus Dominguez

Les Coquelicots - Rose Lowder

Ecosystem-6-A Sort of Mycelium - Teruo Koike

Photomatons - Eugeni Bonet

Zebra - Maarten Visser

Through the Miniscope - Ian Helliwell

De jamones y monjas - Daniel Cuberta

Escultura fílmica No3 - Alberto Cabrera Bernal

Confessions through an open curtain - Eli Cortinas

Desert - Daniel Cuberta

75 Cuts for Carl Andre - Alberto Cabrera Bernal

Blanket Statement #1: Home is Where the Heart is - Jodie Mack

10:30PM @ cinecycle

Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project - Jodie Mack

11:30PM @ cinecycle

OPEN SCREENING

BRING YOUR OWN WORK

Saturday, April 20

4:00 @ Mocca

grain(s) - Tanya Lukin Linklater, Duane Linklater

8:00PM @ St. Anne's Anglican Church.

Closing Night Gala

David Mott, Hamid Drake Scoring 

Corredor - Alexandra Gelis

Vector: Game + Art Convergence (Feb 20 - 24)

 

Vector: Game + Art Convergence is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to showcasing contemporary game based artworks.  Over these five days, Vector will feature exhibitions, screenings, workshops, performances and round table discussions, all with the intent of creating a critical dialogue about the medium of games and its expressive potential as a contemporary art practice. - Clint Enns

(Vector: Game + Art Convergence is on February 20 - 24 at Interaccess , Propeller, Bento-Miso and VideoFag. Tickets and the Full Program are available on their website, Vector Game Art Fest.)

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+++Exhibitions (open daily during the festival)+++

Other Worlds
Interaccess
Co-curated by Prosthetic Knowledge and mrghosty
An exhibition which addresses digital space as procedural landscapes. Rather than creating games where prescribed routes and narratives directing player movement and action, the works of Other Worlds position the player as a digital flaneur; free to move anywhere within these worlds, while occupying the position of a detached observer. 
Other Worlds features the Canadian exhibition debut of The Night Journey, created by Bill Viola and Tracy Fullerton in additition to works by Luis Hernandez, Alex Myers & Jeff Thompson, Lea Albaugh, Arcane Kids, Ed Key & David Kanaga, Alan Kwan, Cyril Lecomte-Languérand, and Axel Shokk.

Ludacy

Bento-Miso

Curated by Christine Kim.

An experimental workshop/exhibition project which takes 3 young game designers and asks them to transform their games into new media art installations.

Ludacy festures work by Damian Sommer, Alex Martin (Droqen) and Cale Bradbury (Net Grind).

net.works
Propellor

This exhibition surveys the myriad of practices that fall under the umbrella of game art creative production. Video, photography, art games, textile and more.
net.works features works by  Kenton Sheely, notendo, anna anthropy, Christian Streinz, Aaron Oldenbury, Jose Acosta, Jason Nelson, Myfanwy Ashmore, Gavin Bailey, Tom Corby & Jonathan Mackenzie, Hannah Epstein, Alex Myers and coll.eo.

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+++Screenings and Performances+++

Wednesday, February 20 at 7PM at VideoFag
Stranger Comes to Town: Identity and the Avatar.
Exploring the politics of the avatar in relationship to identity by examining massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG), technologies of biometrics and the border that separates our real identity with our digital selves. Featuring films and videos by Peggy Ahwesh, Zach Blas, Valerie Brewer, Jacqueline Goss and Toronto artist Sandra Danilovic.

Friday, February 22 at 8PM at Propellor
Meditations on the Medium
What do a classic video game cabinet, a tv, and a snack dispenser have in common? How are they different? This program reflects on the nature of the medium. Featuring films and videos by Stephanie Barber, Eddo Stern, Scott Stark, Beflix, Gun Holmström, Meesoo Lee, IP Yuk-Yiu. 

Friday, February 22 at 10PM at Interaccess
Playing Personae: Engendered + Embodied Performances.
Using games as the focal point for discussions of gender and embodiment, these performances address the representations of gender in gaming culture and technologies.
Featuring performances by Angela Washko and Toronto artists Daniele Hopkins + Kyle Duffield.

Saturday, February 23 from 10AM-2PM at Bento-Miso
Bonus Level 1: SUPERCADE!!!
A special screening of animation, commercials and other ephemera from the history of game culture’s intersection with broadcast television. We invite you to bring your children and your inner-child to spend Saturday morning eating sugar cereals and watching classic cartoons inspired by your favourite video games.

Saturday, February 23 at 8PM at Propellor
Awaiting the End of the Beginning
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Exploring the competitive nature of video games and the desire for simulated violence.  Featuring films and videos by Craig Baldwin, s.ara, Paul Atkins & Ian Campbell, Kathleen Daniel, Wei– Ming Ho, Josh Bricker and Jon Rafman.

Saturday, February 23 at 10PM at Interaccess
Engines of Performance
Game engines as tools for live performance. Toronto based artists Toca Loca will be performing their Halo Ballet (a live choreographed ballet performance in Halo, featuring a live musical score).  Foci+Loci creates live electro-acoustic sound pieces using custom game levels built in Sony’s LittleBigPlanet. 

Sunday, February 24 at 7PM at VideoFag
Closing Festival Party and Screening: Bonus Level 2: f@n f_uckery!
Weird and wonderful experimentation and creative interventions made by fans. This night promises to be strange. Featuring films and videos by Bryan Peterson, Mat Lindenberg Tomasz Wlaźlak, David Musgrave, and Toronto artists, Jim Munroe, Mark Pellegrino, Edward Shallow and Sean Grounds.

The 8 Fest at Workman Arts Theatre (Feb 8 - 10)

The 8 Fest is a festival for anyone using small-gauge to create rough little gems on film – personal, handmade, experimental, animations, diaries, essays, collage, cut-ups, performance/film, music/film. It is also one of most fun festivals in Toronto! - Clint Enns

(The Toronto 8 Fest is on from February 8 - 10 and the primary venue is the Workman Arts Theatre. Tickets are $5 per event or $25 for a festival pass. For more info: http://www.the8fest.com/)

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Friday, February 8 at 7PM 
Zingers! Tales from the Funnel, Volume 4

The Funnel was an expermintal theatre in Toronto that operated from 1977 until 1989.  This program includes six films by Annette Mangaard, Laurie Humphries, Blaine Spiegel, Paul McGowan, Adam Swica, Michaelina Fontana.

Friday, February 8 at 9PM
Bagerooooo Six, Volume 1

This program includes films by many local, national and international filmmakers including Zoe Heyn-Jones, Graham Hollings, Pablo Marin, Brett Bell, Elie Vadakan, Baba Hillman, Stephen Broomer, Evanna Chan, Paul Clipson, John Creson + Adam Rosen, Penelope Uribe, Dagie Brundert, Sebastian de Trolio, Naren Wilks and Jamie Ross.

Friday, February 8 at 11PM
Salome by Teo Hernandez 

A tour de force by Super 8 feature film by Mexican artist Hernandez.

Saturday, February 9 at 7PM
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Montreal Showcase Begins
Curated by Claudie Levesque.
Recent Super 8 films from Montreal including work by Alexandra Grimanis & Steven Woloshen, Alexandre Larose, Anne-Michele Fortin, Suzie Synnott, Stephane Calce, Kara Blake, Malena Szlam, Daichi Saito, Andre Habib and Karina Mariano.
      

Saturday, February 9 at 9 PM
BANG IT OUT: Impulse + Warhol + Ross McLaren
Curated by Milada Kovacova
Ross McLaren will be in attendence!
Spotlight on the seminal work of New York-based filmmaker and mentor McLaren and those who entered his orbit. Films by Nadia Sistonen, G.B. Jones, Wrik Mead, Louise Noguchi, Eldon Garnet, John Porter and Ross McLaren.

Sunday, February 10 at 7PM

The Design of Everyday Life
Fashions, Interiors and household objects in the 20th Century presented by the Home Movie History Project.

Sunday, February 10 at 9PM 
Bagerooooo Six, Volume 2

This program includes films by many local, national and international filmmakers includingOxidize Sharlene Bamboat, Tara Nelson, Madi Piller, Nicholas Kovats, Leslie Supnet, John Rodgers, Ilse Kramer, Stephanie Gray, Naren Wilks,Pablo Valencia, David Frankovich, Aaron Zeghers, Kristen Mommertz, Clint Enns and Francesco Gagliardi, Scott Fitzpatrick, Robert Todd, E. Hearte, Gordon Nelson.