Basma Al-Sharif, We Began By Measuring Distance, 2009 by Gabby Moser The complex interplay of text and image in representing cultural differences is the theme that underpins Friday’s On Screen program, All Our Memories Significant in Retrospect. Curated by Images’ 2011 curatorial resident, cheyanne turions, the program features three films that use language, translation and [...]

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Ellie Ga, The Fortunetellers, 2008-ongoing, detail. By Gabby Moser In advance of her Live Images performance this Saturday, Brooklyn-based artist Ellie Ga answered a few questions about her performative lecture The Fortunetellers. Combining video, sound, narration and overhead and slide projectors, Ga’s performance meditates on themes of future-telling, metaphorical thinking and forging human connections in one [...]

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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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Curator Chris Kennedy brings a contemplative program of Super 8 films from an international roster of artists to the Theatre Centre this Thursday, April 9th at 11 pm. I recently spoke to him via email about his thoughts on the program and what makes the anachronistic medium ripe for rediscovery. Jason Halprin, Mylar Balloon Ripoff, [...]

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As several bloggers and critics have already noted, the opening weekend of this year’s festival emphasized Live events: performances, talks and interactive screenings by several compelling artists that proved to be popular, “must-see” events for many festival goers with lineups out the door at many venues despite the dreary weather. While Live events have always [...]

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