Last night (Friday) I went to the first performance of Sung Hwan Kim’s In the Room 3, a mix of improvised storytelling, live drawing, music, ephemeral chalk drawings, looped video and prerecorded performances. Topics and themes ranged from scary stories about misshapen dogs and foxes, to narratives about family relations and cultural displacement. If I [...]

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Today’s dreary, rainy, very Vancouver-esque weather seems like the perfect excuse to stay inside and take in the first full day of programming at Images. I’m camped out at a cafe, circling events and screenings in my festival catalogue and getting ready to be the film and video pep squad to Sholem Krishtalka’s cheerleading team. [...]

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