A founder of the legendary Black Audio Film Collective (1982-1998), U.K. filmmaker John Akomfrah has an Order of the British Empire and was received awarded the prestigious Princess Margriet Award from the European Cultural Foundation (ECF). We are thrilled to present the Canadian premiere of The Nine Muses, his latest feature film, a elegant meditation on history, mythology and creativity. Variety raves that The Nine Muses “considers the history of the African diaspora to postwar Europe through a highly unusual prism of structuralist cinema, archival footage, spoken-word recordings and the nine muses birthed by the union of Zeus and Mnemone, the Greek goddess of memory.”

NOW gives our festival four Ns before it’s even started – http://www.nowtoronto.com/movies/story.cfm?content=186166

The Grid maps Toronto cinema & Images history: http://www.thegridto.com/culture/film/mapping-movie-history/

The Star claims we aim for “perfection”! – http://www.toronto.com/article/722328–images-festival-2012-experimental-films-aim-for-perfection

Join us after the screening of John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses to celebrate his film and the opening of the SILVER 25th Images Festival!

FREE – EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

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To celebrate 25 years of Images programming, we’re looking back to the last weekend of June 1988. To help explore the origins of the Images Festival, we’ve invited founding board members and programmers to select and talk about the work from the first festival that had the most impact for them.

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To kick off the opening of the Images Festival space at 204 Spadina, Images is teaming up with Wavelength to present a night of sound, light, projections and beats. The show is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Microtonal Array at InterAccess, which explores boundaries between sound, object and image and features works by Tristan Perich and Sarah Rara.

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