Images Blog 8 - 2010 Andrew James Paterson
Notes on the International Experimental Media Congress 2010
Note that in 2010 Toronto is hosting an International Experimental Media Congress, whereas in 1989 it was the metropolitan host to an International Experimental Film Congress. And the first panel of […]

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Images Blog 7 - 2010 Andrew James Paterson
A recurring motif throughout this 23rd Images Festival is one of cinematic experiences devoid of production and post-production elements usually taken for granted. There have been a few works which strip cinematic apparatus down to bare essentials - moving […]

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One of the more salient through-lines of the works assembled in The On Screen Program 3, Siting Cinema, is the idea of a pitch, or at the very least, a kind of proposition. Of course, any work of art is a proposition of some kind; it asks you to believe in it, to accept […]

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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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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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