THE 21ST ANNUAL IMAGES FESTIVAL Toronto`s 2nd Oldest Film
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THE 21ST ANNUAL IMAGES FESTIVAL Toronto`s 2nd Oldest Film
For Immediate Release: THE 21ST ANNUAL IMAGES FESTIVAL Toronto’s 2nd Oldest Film Festival HIGHLIGHTS ON SCREEN · OFF SCREEN · LIVE IMAGES April 3 – 13, 2008 www.imagesfestival.com The Images Festival is a multifaceted media arts festival showcasing artworks in film, video, gallery installation, live performance and new addition to artist talks, parties and walking tours. These components make Screen, Off Screen and Live images programming of the 10 day festival. include: over 130 media in up the On Highlights ON SCREEN LOCATION: Joseph Workman Theatre 1001 Queen Street West, at Ossington **Except Super 8 screening on April 11 THURSDAY, APRIL 3 9:00 p.m. OPENING NIGHT GALA: The Lollipop Generation – by G.B. Jones Tickets: $15 general/$12 students/seniors, members Toronto filmmaker G.B. Jones’ fifteen-plus-years in the making Super 8 feature film about the queer underground! Features appearances by Toronto’s Joel Gibb (the Hidden Cameras), Vaginal Crème Davis, Jena von Brucker, Mark Ewert and featuring music by the Hidden Cameras. FRIDAY, APRIL 4 7:00 p.m. Canadian Artist Spotlight - on Nelson Henricks Tickets: $10 general/$8 students/seniors, members Montréal-based video artist Nelson Henricks’ prolific body of work, spanning from the 1980’s to present carefully explores the poetics of words, visuals and sound. 401 RICHMOND STREET WEST, SUITE 448, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA M5V 3A8 TELEPHONE 416.971.8405 FACSIMILE 416.971.7412 SATURDAY, APRIL 5 9:00 p.m. International Short II: Ruptures Restructured Short films by Toronto artists Barbara Sternberg, John Price and Phil Hoffman along with Montréal-based Karl Lemieux and Jennifer Reeves and Ben Russell (both USA) use the surface of celluloid to juxtapose found footage, home movies and abstraction in a film on film-lovers delight! PWYC SUNDAY, APRIL 6 5:00 p.m. International Short III: Fragments in Fragments Includes two projects: Dana Claxton (Vancouver-based of Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux ancestry) presents the video “Hope” a reconstruction of broken pottery which reflects on the difficulties of reconciliation across cultures. Also features a 60+ minute 16mm film/multi-channel sound installation by Redmond Entwistle (USA) entitled “Paterson-Lodz” which investigates place, culture and labour politics in early 20th century histories of Paterson, New Jersey and Lodz, Poland. PWYC MONDAY, APRIL 7 7:00 p.m. Screening: International Shorts V Just before the road ends, there’ll be another road – features shorts by Canadians Kevin Lee Burton and Ruben Guzman (Canada/Argentina) along with Inger Lise Hansen (Norway), Pieter Geenen (Belgium) and Köken Ergun (Turkey) with a program addressing landscape, language, uranium mining in Canada and Turkey’s “Children’s Day.” PWYC WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9 7:00 p.m. Hail the New Puritan – by Charles Atlas Tickets: $10 general/$8 students/seniors/members Curated by Ben Portis and Kathleen Smith Exhuberant and witty, Hail the New Puritan is a simulated day-in-the-life "docufantasy" starring the British dance celebrity Michael Clark. Atlas' fictive portrait of the charismatic choreographer serves as a vivid invocation of the studied decadence of the 1980s post-punk London subculture. Following the screening, Toronto artist and filmmaker John Greyson will join Charles Atlas on-stage for a free-ranging discussion of media and performance. FRIDAY, APRIL 11 11:00 p.m. No Cuts. No Splices: Selections from the One Take Super 8 Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West The original One Take Super 8 Event took place in Regina, Saskatchewan in 2000 with 20 filmmakers each making a film. Using only a single 401 RICHMOND STREET WEST, SUITE 448, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA M5V 3A8 TELEPHONE 416.971.8405 FACSIMILE 416.971.7412 cartridge of super 8, each film was shot, processed, and projects unaltered with the filmmaker never getting a chance to see their work until the premiere. This program features a broad selection of work produced for these events over the past seven years. Not focused on a single theme or objective, they are great examples of in-camera editing, and creative experimentation using only a super 8 camera and 50 feet of film. PWYC SUNDAY, APRIL 13 8:00 p.m. CLOSING NIGHT GALA! Trading The Future – by b.h. Yael Tickets: $15 general/$12 students/seniors, members Trading the Future is a video essay that questions the inevitability of apocalypse and its repercussions on environmental urgencies. Starting with a personal memory, the fear of the rapture, the video addresses the Christian narrative for the end of times, and draws connections to secular apocalypticism and our eager acceptance of a cataclysmic end. Trading the Future challenges the philosophical and practical foundations of death, the growth of the market place and the politics of apocalypse. OFF SCREEN CLOSING APRIL 19, Women’s Art Resource Centre (WARC) Translations/Traduções – curated by Emilie Chhangur and Daniela Castro Off Screen Reception: April 5 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 a.m. Saturday 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Translations/Traduções features a selection of video and new media work by Brazilian artists Giselle Beiguelman and Vera Bighetti, Raquel Garbelotti and Alice Micelli they will be present at the exhibition and present an artist talk and workshop coinciding with the gallery show. CLOSING MAY 11, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery Play Pause – Sadie Benning Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 12: 00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Wednesday: 12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Open Holiday Mondays: 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. This two-screen projected video installation, created in collaboration with Solveig Nelson, comprises hundreds of drawings that weave in and out of public and private urban spaces. Set in a post 9/11 world, wars rage in the headlines. CLOSING APRIL 20, Harbourfront Centre Ceremonial Actions – curated by Images Festival 401 RICHMOND STREET WEST, SUITE 448, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA M5V 3A8 TELEPHONE 416.971.8405 FACSIMILE 416.971.7412 Opening Reception: March 7, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Off Screen Reception: April 12, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Gallery Hours: Tuesday and Thursday: 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, Friday & Saturday: 12:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Sunday: 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. This international, all-women’s show looks at the ideas surrounding rituals and performance specific to ceremony and action with Deirdre Logue, Brenda Goldstein and Alissa Firth-Eagland, Louise Liliefeldt, Nezaket Ekici and Shana Moulton. SATURDAY, APRIL 5, Images Office (401 Richmond) 12: 30 p.m. & 1:30 p.m. Off Screen Guided Tour Join tour guides Carol-Ann Ryan and Terence Dick for a guided walking tour of the Off Screen gallery installations in the eight galleries of 401 Richmond Street West. Tours will leave from Suite 448 in the Images Office. FREE. SUNDAY, APRIL 6, Gladstone Hotel 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., Off Screen Bus Tour: Blackwood and AGYU This free bus tour will visit both the Blackwood Gallery at University of Toronto Mississauga and the Art Gallery of York University. Free videos will be presented to tour participants on the bus. FREE. SATURDAY, APRIL 12, Gladstone Hotel 12:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Off Screen Bus Tour: Queen West and Harbourfront The bus tour will leave the Gladstone Hotel and commence at Harbourfront Centre for the Sadie Benning talk, artist reception and performance at York Quay Galleries. FREE. LIVE IMAGES SUNDAY, APRIL 6, The Music Gallery 9:30 p.m. Live Images I: Light Trap – Greg Pope with Knurl (a.k.a Alan Bloor) Tickets: $15 general/$12 students/seniors/members This is a performance using four prepared 16mm projectors and a sound artist. The imagery in Light Trap begins with loops of completely black film, a dark room filled with haze and only the hum of the projectors’ motors. Slowly, the emulsion is whittled away on each loop with sandpaper and an array of hand tools, allowing bursts and streams of light to pierce through the darkness. 401 RICHMOND STREET WEST, SUITE 448, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA M5V 3A8 TELEPHONE 416.971.8405 FACSIMILE 416.971.7412 TUESDAY, APRIL 8, Workman Theatre 9:30 p.m. Live Images II: The Conversation, a.k.a. Everything is Everything Tickets: $10 general/$8 students/seniors/members As the speed of information grows, culture viruses expand and coalesce. The global homogenization of symbols, meanings and voices seems inevitable. Two artists, their common first language is video. Through sound and vision, Kentaro Taki and Tasman Richardson will attempt to harmonize, synchronize, and improvise a culture clash of stolen air transmissions from their native broadcast geographies. What differences if any are left in our spectacular conversations of post-everything telepresence? WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, The Royal 10:00 p.m. Live Images III: The Valerie Project – Jaromil Jire Tickets: $15 general/$12 students/seniors/members Philadelphia musicians bring new life to a forgotten classic of the Czech New Wave: Jaromil Jire’ Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970). The sound goes off and the amps get cranked as a collective of Philadelphia's finest underground musicians pay tribute to this seminal film of the new folk movement. APRIL 10 – 12, Harbourfront Centre *WORLD PREMIERE Live Images IV: Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry – Daniel Barrow Tickets: $15 general/$12 students/seniors/members Daniel Barrow's newest "manual animation" combines overhead projection, with video, music, and live narration to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision to create an independent phone book chronicling the lives of each person in his city. SATURDAY, APRIL 12, Harbourfront Centre 7:30 p.m. Live Images VI: Theda – Georgina Starr; live accompaniment by CCMC Tickets: $15 general/$12 students/seniors/members Once the biggest silent movie star in the world, Theda Bara appeared in over forty films, of which only two still exist today. Through extensive research into the art of Bara and other neglected silent stars, Georgina Starr has reconstructed key scenes from the lost films, with both herself and the film fan taking on the role of Theda. She also looks to the lost or neglected talent of other actresses such as Alla Nazimova, Barbara La Marr, Marguerite Clark, Musidora, Maud Allen and many more. For a full schedule please go to www.imagesfestival.com 401 RICHMOND STREET WEST, SUITE 448, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA M5V 3A8 TELEPHONE 416.971.8405 FACSIMILE 416.971.7412 PWYC (Pay What You Can) pricing structure will be in effect for the International Short Programs. PWYC works on a first come first served basis so be sure to arrive as early as you can. For more information, ticket pricing and on-line purchase please visit www.imagesfestival.com. Please add this information to your listings. Images are available upon request We are presently confirming interviews The Images Festival is Toronto’s 2nd oldest film festival and Canada's largest annual event devoted exclusively to independent and experimental film, video, installation, live performance and new media. The 21st edition of the festival runs April 3rd – 13th, in Toronto, Canada. The Images Festival is made possible thanks to generous operating support from the following public funders: The Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Ontario Arts Council, Telefilm Canada and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council. For the Info Line: 416.345.8181 For media queries, visuals, and interviews, please contact: Planet3 Communications –Marli Bennett/ Sarah Etherden/Joanne Smale t: 647.346.4101, e: [email protected] f: 647.346.4104 401 RICHMOND STREET WEST, SUITE 448, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA M5V 3A8 TELEPHONE 416.971.8405 FACSIMILE 416.971.7412