b.h. Yael’s Trading the Future closed the Images Festival on Sunday night. In essayist form Yael makes a case for a connection between religious (and secular) belief in the apocalypse and our dysfunctional relationship with Nature. Is our unwillingness to respect the limits of growth of the finite system that is our planet a result […]

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The seventh installment in the International shorts series offers a well curated evening of films that could be classified as subtle sci-fi. None of the three films in the program aspire to be science fiction but they all possess a haunting, post-apocalyptic feel or seem to be filmed on a planet strangely similar to ours. […]

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There’s a reason we don’t see a lot of contemporary dance on film; it rarely translates well to the screen. Nor does it age well; most modern dance isn’t very modern or relevant twenty years later. One exception that comes to mind is local hero Danny Grossman’s 1981 masterpiece Endangered Species, which brought me to […]

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The fourth installment in the series of international shorts is an example of very successful and effective curating. The five films in Sunday’s program enter into a dialog; they comment on and refer to each other. By watching them in sequence I think each film becomes more loaded with meaning than if I had watched […]

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Last night I was reminded of what makes the Images Festival so exciting for me: I can go and take in a scheduled event with no expectations and come away with that wonderful feeling of having been not only transported but, more importantly, transformed, if only ever so slightly. I must admit that up until […]

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