Images Education and Outreach Program

IMAGES TALK
Free artist talks, dialogues and debates served with free pie and coffee!

Artist Talk with Andrea Geyer
Friday April 12, 3 PM
Images Hub, Urbanspace Gallery 401 Richmond Street West, Ground Floor

In her installation Sound Giving Will Feeling, Andrea Geyer presents a group of new works developed from her research on the repressed, yet insistently present history of women in the development of the early Modernist project. At this artist talk, Images invites Andrea to talk about her process of research and creation.

Negative/Positive: Artist Talk with Robert Todd
Friday April 12, 4 PM
LIFT, 1137 Dupont Street

Having made over 60 films in the past two decades, Robert Todd has a mastery of 16mm filmmaking that eschews categorization. Join us for a lively discussion about his process and a short screening!

Contemporary Media Art and Independent Cinema in Africa
A discussion with Jean-Marie Teno + Pierre Beaudoin
Saturday April 13, 3 PM
Images Hub, Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West, Ground Floor

Jean-Marie Teno has produced and directed films dealing with the colonial and
post-colonial history of Africa. This year his feature film Leaf In The Wind will be premiering at the Images Festival. Pierre Beaudoin has been active in media arts for 25 years, recently curating Africa in Movement, a program of African short films. Images programmers have selected Next Week and Fleurs De Lys from this program to screen alongside Teno's film.

Appropriate Appropriation?
A good old fashioned debate moderated by Jesse Wente and including panelists Jane Gillooly, Richard Fung, Gabe Klinger, JB Mabe, Althea Thauberger and Mike Hoolboom. Sunday April 14, 2 PM
Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton Street

The 2013 Images Festival showcases numerous works that feature reenactment and appropriation, an increasingly prevalent practice in contemporary arts. Images and the Media Arts Network of Ontario have assembled two esteemed panels that will debate the ethics of these techniques. Co-presented with MANO, Media Arts Network of Ontario.

Talk: Rope
A post-performance discussion about Film: Rope with Andrew J. Paterson
Sunday April 14, 4:30 PM
The Theatre Centre, 1095 Queen Street West

Film: Rope perversely exposes and explores the discontinuities and incongruities between cinema and live performance. Paterson discusses how Gagliardi is able to reveal hidden meanings in the relationship between the characters in Rope (1948) by deconstructing Hitchcock's clever camera work.

Performance and Media Art: Tools with Which to Deconstruct
A discussion with Tanya Lukin Linklater, Duane Linklater + Francesco Gagliardi
Monday April 15, 4 PM
Images Hub, Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West, Ground Floor

This year at Images, artists Tanya Linklater, Duane Linklater and Francesco Gagliardi combine media and live performance to deconstruct elements of existing films in their works grain(s) and Film: Rope. We have invited these artists to discuss their similar yet distinct creative processes and intentions.

Gabe Klinger Discusses!
Tuesday April 16, 3 PM
Images Hub, Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West, Ground Floor

Gabe Klinger is a Chicago-based writer, programmer and teacher who was born in São Paulo, Brazil. A critic and journalist, he has written for over 20 journals including Cinema Scope, De Filmkrant in Holland, Ekran in Slovenia, indieWIRE, Letras de cine in Spain, and Undercurrent. Images has invited Gabe to discuss a topic of his choosing. Watch daily dispatch for updates!

Fair Trade Film Screenings?
A panel discussion with industry veterans
Wednesday April 17, 3 PM
Images Hub, Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West, Ground Floor

Considering the large number of film festivals that have materialized over the past 20 years, it seems pertinent to examine the interdependent role of filmmaker and festival. Despite the steep cost of film production, most festivals do not pay screening fees. In fact, filmmakers pay submission fees ranging anywhere from $10 to $200 to have their work considered by festival programmers. On the other hand, the film festival circuit is considered a networking hotbed for aspiring talent and a launching pad for international filmmaking careers. The aim of this talk is to uncover the inherent power dynamics in this symbiotic relationship.

Explosion in the Movie Machine: A Book Launch and More!
Thursday April 18, 3 PM
Images Hub, Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West, Ground Floor

A book launch for Explosion in the Movie Machine, an anthology of contemporary reflections, scholarly texts, historical documents and visual documentation that examine the depth, brilliance and contradictions of Toronto's media arts ecology and history. As part of this event, we will hold a panel discussion that explores the role censorship has played in the formation of the Toronto media arts community.

Fresh Lenses on the Domestic Sphere
A discussion with Adele Horne + Lynne Sachs
Friday April 19, 3 PM
Images Hub, Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West, Ground Floor

Filmmakers Adele Horne and Lynne Sachs have both created hybrid docs that skillfully point the cinematic lens at the domestic sphere. With Your Day Is My Night, Lynne Sachs utilizes a bed as a focal point for inquiry into the personal and collective experiences of a household of immigrants living in a "shift-bed" apartment in the heart of Chinatown. Maintenance is filmmaker Adele Horne's exploration of house cleaning, inviting viewers to meditate on the ongoing maintenance work that makes other, more highly valued, work possible. The Images Festival has brought these talented filmmakers together in order to discuss their process of making the private public.

MASTER CLASSES

Negative/Positive: A Master Class with Robert Todd
Friday April 12, 10 AM-4 PM (followed by a free artist talk 4-6 PM)
LIFT, 1137 Dupont Street $65
(Limited to 6 participants. Call Shenaz Baksh to register: 416 588 6444 x: 221)

This year the Images Festival and LIFT are thrilled to announce a six-hour master class with filmmaker Robert Todd. Robert will be revealing the ingenious hand-processing technique he used to create the cinematic component of Images' Opening Night Live event. By craftily employing sticky tape, Robert is able to reveal and play with both the negative and positive images that are record- ed within the layers of reversal film stock. Negative/Positive: seeks dimensional travel through the filmmaking process.

Master Class with Greg Staats
Tuesday April 16, 5-8 PM
Trinity Square Video, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 376. $25 (Limited to 12 participants. Call TSV to register: 416 593 1332)

Greg Staats conducts a presentation and discussion on process concerning relationships, cultural universality, mnemonics, action based language, performance and lens-based techniques. Complimented by a free Artist Talk on April 20 2-3:30 PM.

EDUCATOR'S GUIDE

The Images Festival creates an Educator's Guide each year to accompany our Off Screen exhibitions. The 2013 guide is available on imagesfestival.com and at participating galleries.

The Canadian Art Foundation's Teacher's Guide covers various media forms and is available at canadianart.ca

STUDENT PROGRAMMING AND MENTORSHIP

Borders/Bodies: International Student On Screen Showcase
Mentored by the Images programming team, a student jury comprising Zoe Heyn-Jones, Cameron Moneo and Taimaz Moslemian curated a selection of shorts that explore and interrogate the machinations of nature and culture. These works reconsider boundaries and border zones. Please see p. 44 for details.

An Illuminated iDentity: Off Screen Student Exhibition
Introducing an emerging generation of artists whose hybrid development of moving images crosses the boundaries of film and video, this year’s Student Exhibition brings together nine artists exploring what cultural identity and individuality look like in an increasingly immersive digital world. Please see p. 81 for details.