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Images Festival brings compelling experimental film and video to Toronto
Monday April 14th 2014For close to three decades, Toronto’s Images Festival, which runs till April 19, has worked at the bleeding edge of experimental film and video with a mind to bringing the most compelling of it home to show the rest of us each year.
Mainstream it’s not and that’s the point: much of Images’ content each year delves unapologetically into fraught realms, both topical and visual. Work is often political, critical, socially conscious and, more often than not, an unabashed visual challenge to the status quo
Someone’s got to do it. We’re lucky that someone is right here in our hometown. Following: a handful of standouts from this year’s selection.
From Gulf To Gulf, CAMP: A four-year patchwork of footage shot on HD video, cellphones and whatever other means, From Gulf To Gulf is a riveting insider’s view of the wheels – or rather, propellers – of makeshift commerce on the Arabian Sea, where rickety cargo ships deliver everything from lipstick and toothpaste to SUVs back and forth between India and Pakistan to Somalia and the Persian Gulf. At turns peaceful and harrowing – dolphins playing in glinting sunlight; the rough creak and heave of banged-together wooden hulls on rough seas — the film is loosely and holistically collaborative, a joint effort between the Indian video art collective CAMP and the sailors they initially adopted as their subjects, and to whom they eventually handed over their cameras with the encouragement to steer the film themselves. April 10, 7 p.m., Royal Cinema, 608 College St.
Making Space For More, Andrew Lampert: In the latest in an inspired series of hybrid performance-screenings called Live Images, Lampert acts as emcee over a couple of dinner seatings at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Frank restaurant, presenting film and video works unearthed from the museum’s voluminous, eclectic archive. Lampert went hunting for the largely unseen, hoping to lift the veil on obscurities rather than further spotlight the widely known, but he’s managed to include at least one famous name nonetheless. Michael Snow, Canada’s pater familias of experimental film, makes an appearance, but playing dinner music (of a sort) on the piano. April 11, 7 p.m., Frank Restaurant, 317 Dundas St. W. Dinner reservations recommended.
Canadian Spotlight, Jennifer Chan: It’s a tradition for Images to highlight the work of a senior figure in the Canadian experimental film and video world, but this year they go against the grain. Chan, who grew up in Toronto, wrapped up her MFA at Syracuse just last year and is notably junior, but screamingly of-the-moment: Her frantic, absurd video collages of sometimes naughty popular-and-junk-cultural imagery contain more than a waft of the work of recent bratty superstar auteur Ryan Trecartin, but also a savage frustration with technological mainlining. Screensaver, a 2010 work, shows the artist eviscerating a pile of MacBooks with carving knives. April 19, 7 p.m. at Jackman Hall (AGO), 317 Dundas St. W., McCaul St. entrance.
Curtains, Lucy Raven: A video installation that orders space as well as images, Lucy Raven’s layered work unfurls on multiple screens and in three dimensions, creating an unease that goes beyond the visual. Its nominal subject matter, the exporting of labour in the animation industry offshore to places like India and China, has much broader reach than the film industry on which she’s focused, and that’s the point. Digital sweatshops a world away strip the magic from the artifice of the industry and lay bare a broader dialogue about global capitalism’s fraught endgame. Opening April 11 at InterAccess, 9 Ossington St., Curtains continues to May 24.
Source: Toronto Start
Front Page, Industry News
Images Festival brings compelling experimental film and video to Toronto
Monday April 14th 2014For close to three decades, Toronto’s Images Festival, which runs till April 19, has worked at the bleeding edge of experimental film and video with a mind to bringing the most compelling of it home to show the rest of us each year.
Mainstream it’s not and that’s the point: much of Images’ content each year delves unapologetically into fraught realms, both topical and visual. Work is often political, critical, socially conscious and, more often than not, an unabashed visual challenge to the status quo
Someone’s got to do it. We’re lucky that someone is right here in our hometown. Following: a handful of standouts from this year’s selection.
From Gulf To Gulf, CAMP: A four-year patchwork of footage shot on HD video, cellphones and whatever other means, From Gulf To Gulf is a riveting insider’s view of the wheels – or rather, propellers – of makeshift commerce on the Arabian Sea, where rickety cargo ships deliver everything from lipstick and toothpaste to SUVs back and forth between India and Pakistan to Somalia and the Persian Gulf. At turns peaceful and harrowing – dolphins playing in glinting sunlight; the rough creak and heave of banged-together wooden hulls on rough seas — the film is loosely and holistically collaborative, a joint effort between the Indian video art collective CAMP and the sailors they initially adopted as their subjects, and to whom they eventually handed over their cameras with the encouragement to steer the film themselves. April 10, 7 p.m., Royal Cinema, 608 College St.
Making Space For More, Andrew Lampert: In the latest in an inspired series of hybrid performance-screenings called Live Images, Lampert acts as emcee over a couple of dinner seatings at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Frank restaurant, presenting film and video works unearthed from the museum’s voluminous, eclectic archive. Lampert went hunting for the largely unseen, hoping to lift the veil on obscurities rather than further spotlight the widely known, but he’s managed to include at least one famous name nonetheless. Michael Snow, Canada’s pater familias of experimental film, makes an appearance, but playing dinner music (of a sort) on the piano. April 11, 7 p.m., Frank Restaurant, 317 Dundas St. W. Dinner reservations recommended.
Canadian Spotlight, Jennifer Chan: It’s a tradition for Images to highlight the work of a senior figure in the Canadian experimental film and video world, but this year they go against the grain. Chan, who grew up in Toronto, wrapped up her MFA at Syracuse just last year and is notably junior, but screamingly of-the-moment: Her frantic, absurd video collages of sometimes naughty popular-and-junk-cultural imagery contain more than a waft of the work of recent bratty superstar auteur Ryan Trecartin, but also a savage frustration with technological mainlining. Screensaver, a 2010 work, shows the artist eviscerating a pile of MacBooks with carving knives. April 19, 7 p.m. at Jackman Hall (AGO), 317 Dundas St. W., McCaul St. entrance.
Curtains, Lucy Raven: A video installation that orders space as well as images, Lucy Raven’s layered work unfurls on multiple screens and in three dimensions, creating an unease that goes beyond the visual. Its nominal subject matter, the exporting of labour in the animation industry offshore to places like India and China, has much broader reach than the film industry on which she’s focused, and that’s the point. Digital sweatshops a world away strip the magic from the artifice of the industry and lay bare a broader dialogue about global capitalism’s fraught endgame. Opening April 11 at InterAccess, 9 Ossington St., Curtains continues to May 24.
Source: Toronto Start
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Front Page, Industry News
Images Festival brings compelling experimental film and video to Toronto
Monday April 14th 2014For close to three decades, Toronto’s Images Festival, which runs till April 19, has worked at the bleeding edge of experimental film and video with a mind to bringing the most compelling of it home to show the rest of us each year.
Mainstream it’s not and that’s the point: much of Images’ content each year delves unapologetically into fraught realms, both topical and visual. Work is often political, critical, socially conscious and, more often than not, an unabashed visual challenge to the status quo
Someone’s got to do it. We’re lucky that someone is right here in our hometown. Following: a handful of standouts from this year’s selection.
From Gulf To Gulf, CAMP: A four-year patchwork of footage shot on HD video, cellphones and whatever other means, From Gulf To Gulf is a riveting insider’s view of the wheels – or rather, propellers – of makeshift commerce on the Arabian Sea, where rickety cargo ships deliver everything from lipstick and toothpaste to SUVs back and forth between India and Pakistan to Somalia and the Persian Gulf. At turns peaceful and harrowing – dolphins playing in glinting sunlight; the rough creak and heave of banged-together wooden hulls on rough seas — the film is loosely and holistically collaborative, a joint effort between the Indian video art collective CAMP and the sailors they initially adopted as their subjects, and to whom they eventually handed over their cameras with the encouragement to steer the film themselves. April 10, 7 p.m., Royal Cinema, 608 College St.
Making Space For More, Andrew Lampert: In the latest in an inspired series of hybrid performance-screenings called Live Images, Lampert acts as emcee over a couple of dinner seatings at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Frank restaurant, presenting film and video works unearthed from the museum’s voluminous, eclectic archive. Lampert went hunting for the largely unseen, hoping to lift the veil on obscurities rather than further spotlight the widely known, but he’s managed to include at least one famous name nonetheless. Michael Snow, Canada’s pater familias of experimental film, makes an appearance, but playing dinner music (of a sort) on the piano. April 11, 7 p.m., Frank Restaurant, 317 Dundas St. W. Dinner reservations recommended.
Canadian Spotlight, Jennifer Chan: It’s a tradition for Images to highlight the work of a senior figure in the Canadian experimental film and video world, but this year they go against the grain. Chan, who grew up in Toronto, wrapped up her MFA at Syracuse just last year and is notably junior, but screamingly of-the-moment: Her frantic, absurd video collages of sometimes naughty popular-and-junk-cultural imagery contain more than a waft of the work of recent bratty superstar auteur Ryan Trecartin, but also a savage frustration with technological mainlining. Screensaver, a 2010 work, shows the artist eviscerating a pile of MacBooks with carving knives. April 19, 7 p.m. at Jackman Hall (AGO), 317 Dundas St. W., McCaul St. entrance.
Curtains, Lucy Raven: A video installation that orders space as well as images, Lucy Raven’s layered work unfurls on multiple screens and in three dimensions, creating an unease that goes beyond the visual. Its nominal subject matter, the exporting of labour in the animation industry offshore to places like India and China, has much broader reach than the film industry on which she’s focused, and that’s the point. Digital sweatshops a world away strip the magic from the artifice of the industry and lay bare a broader dialogue about global capitalism’s fraught endgame. Opening April 11 at InterAccess, 9 Ossington St., Curtains continues to May 24.
Source: Toronto Start
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