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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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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Images Blog 2009 - #5

In this year of 2009, the Images’ Festival’s spotlighted artist was Acadian-Quebecois filmmaker Louise Bourque (now based in Boston). Bourque was an astute choice for this edition of the Images Festival, with its focus on print and what artists do with or to prints. Bourque’s programme testified to the potential wonders […]

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Images Festival 2009 - Blog #4
Ben Coonley’s Power Point lecture (or demolition) Talking Points and Talking Ponies
(Remapping the Apparatus: Cinematographic Specificity and Hybrid Media) began with two pretty serious looking films - one his own student project Titanic and the other one by heavy-duty seventies structuralist J.J. Murphy. The Titanic film utilized audio sections of […]

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Images 2009 Blog #3

The 2009 Images Festival’s opening gala event was titled Notes on Composing: 5 Collaborations in Film and Music. This was a collaboration between the Images Festival and Continuum Contemporary Music, and this collaboration was spawned through Continuum’s Artistic Director’s (Jennifer Waring) residency at the Gaudeamus Foundation in Amsterdam. This residency led […]

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