Images Blog 2009 - 7
With the bulk of the curated On Screen programmes scheduled between the Sunday and the Thursday nights, the last few days of the Images Festival were largely characterized by Live Images programmes and/or ‘lectures’. On Thursday evening I attended the double programme 43 After 66 - now, what is with […]

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To me, this year’s festival has seemed to have a more polished edge than previous years. Not polished in a seamless, disappearance of experimentation and labour kind of way, but polished in the coherent and connected programming of related screenings and performances and in the way that each day seems to have a sub-theme, or […]

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Images 2009 Blog #6
There has been some improvement in the meteorological department, which has been rather brutal so far during the Images Festival. This provides me with a reason to get to more of the Off Screen Images, some of those outside the 401 Richmond building.
At Xpace I can see that this year’s exhibiting students […]

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The first George Kuchar video I saw was one of his Weather Diaries. He was schlumped like a decaying mastodon on a feculent motel La-Z-Boy, farting like a bagpipe, his aging testicles drooping out of his soiled boxershorts, complaining about the state of his uncooperative colon, narrating the tedium of his life like it […]

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There was something appealing to me about seeing the student films - mainly because I am always curious as to what is sprouting in the minds of the future generations.
9pm Screening at Joseph Workman theatre. Gotta love Toronto; waiting in the line-up for the screening amongst residents of CAMH - one of which was shouting […]

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