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Images Festival returns for its 30th annual edition April 20 - 27, 2017. The festival is Canada’s largest on and off screen showcase of innovative contemporary art, featuring eight days of screenings, events, performances and exhibitions by local and international artists. In total, the 2017 festival includes 48 on screen films, 12 off screen exhibitions, and four live image projects. Images Festival is excited to announce that the festival will be returning to Innis Town Hall (Theatre University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Ave), with the opening night feature premiering at The Royal Theatre ( 608 College St.).
Images Festival 2017 is a celebration of 30 years in Toronto's interdisciplinary arts community that is sure to thrill by showcasing engaging vanguard projects across many media art platforms from Canadian and international artists. Images Festival’s opening night film Tales of Two Who Dreamt by Nicolás Pereda and Andrea Bussmann focuses the lens on an asylum-seeking Hungarian family awaiting their Canadian residency status, while Ben Donoghue’s world premiere of Pierre Radisson – Fjord and Gulf takes audiences along on a contemplative journey across grandeur, nostalgia, and climate change in contemporary Canada.
“We are dedicated to supporting artists who operate outside the confines of dominant media and art. The lineup for our 30th anniversary will bring some of Canada’s most relevant artists to centre stage while highlighting international talent as well. We are thrilled to showcase these innovative, diverse, independent artists to over 25,000 festival attendees,” says Interim Executive Director, Hope Peterson.
Other programming highlights include early works from top contemporary London-based artist Isaac Julien, who is this years International Artist Spotlight (in partnership with the Royal Ontario Museum and OCAD University). Images Festival’s 2017 Canadian Artist Spotlight is Toronto’s very own Deirdre Logue, who will have a three-gallery retrospective and book launch.
LIVE PERFORMANCES
Bläue / Blueness
Created by: Kerstin Schroedinger
Acting as part performer, part scientist, Kerstin Schroedinger engages in a performance-based image production that extends her ongoing research into the multi-layered histories of analog film production.
AFROGALACTICA: A brief history of the future
Created by: Kapwani Kiwanga
As a one night only performance by Paris-based Kapwani Kiwanga
AFROGALACTICA:
A brief history of the future features a live reading with video projection, in which
Kiwanga takes on the role of a fictional anthropologist to speculate on the future,
investigating Afrofuturism as a means to examine the past from an African or African
diasporic subjectivity.
Glyphs (Music from Martin’s Tape Archive)
Created by: Luke Fowler and Ernst Karel
Following the screening of Electro-Pythagoras, Fowler and Karel will perform the North American premiere of Glyphs (Music from Martin’s Tape Archive), a new quadraphonic concert work comprised entirely from unreleased and rarely heard reel-to-reels found in Martin Bartlett’s archive, which were digitized by Fowler as part of his research.
Zephyr
Created by: Sylvain Chaussée and Adrian Gordon Cook
The collaborative project between filmmaker Sylvain Chaussée and composer Adrian Gordon Cook, otherwise known as Zephyr, have been mesmerizing audiences across Toronto, New York, and Montreal with their audiovisual performances. Zephyr will be performing a new
experimentation where their embodied performance is front and centre.
About Images Festival:
Images Festival aims to create a progressive, inclusive and engaging international platform for moving image culture. Established in 1987, Images is the largest festival in North America showcasing contemporary moving image culture. From the beginning, the organization championed alternatives to mainstream media, and fought to open up dialogue around issues of race, culture, gender and sexuality in the media and art. Images continues to prioritize emerging Canadian and independent work that has been underrepresented.
Images Festival:
Website: www.imagesfestival.com
Twitter: @imagesfestival
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Photo: For the Left Hand Alone by Karilynn Ming Ho.
2017-03-23
Toronto: Images Festival 2017 includes live performances