Images Festival – Door Prize
Door Prize John Greyson 2024 | 140 min | English, ASL Mars Brito, a trans bike courier, is killed by an SUV. Is he the victim of an accidental ‘door prize’, or is this murder? His case becomes a city-wide obsession, with hourly true crime updates and rewards for clues. While this murder mystery unfolds, a Toronto trans activist… Continue Reading Images Festival – Door Prize
Images Festival – A Thousand Bodies
A Thousand Landscapes, A Thousand Bodies is a two-fold film program that explores the tension between the collective and the individual by looking at how landscapes and bodies interact with each other. Conceived as a diptych, these two programs bypass the difference of scale between the body and the landscape to take interest in the trajectories… Continue Reading Images Festival – A Thousand Bodies
Images Festival – Ancestral Clouds, Ancestral Claims
Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims is a film by artist, filmmaker, and writer Arjuna Neuman and philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva. Since 2016, the duo has collaborated on a series of films that each follow a classical element (water, earth, wind, fire) to reimagining the world speculatively and reparatively. Their “elemental cinema” merges poetics and critical theory,… Continue Reading Images Festival – Ancestral Clouds, Ancestral Claims
Images Festival – I didn’t hear the wind echo
One star burning out does not extinguish the light of the constellation. Where many may see separation between the personal and the collective, the student filmmakers included in this program, I didn’t hear the wind echo, create and strengthen connections despite an assumed polarity. Through the use of mixed media animation, archival footage, as well as the… Continue Reading Images Festival – I didn’t hear the wind echo
Images Festival – A Thousand Landscapes
A Thousand Landscapes, A Thousand Bodies is a two-fold film program that explores the tension between the collective and the individual by looking at how landscapes and bodies interact with each other. Conceived as a diptych, these two programs bypass the difference of scale between the body and the landscape to take interest in the trajectories… Continue Reading Images Festival – A Thousand Landscapes
Images Festival – One Image, Two Acts
One Image, Two Acts is the first film in a trilogy by Montreal-based artist Sanaz Sohrabi. The film probes the British Petroleum (BP) Archives, located in Warwickshire, England, diving deep into the immense holdings of ethnographic photographs and films created by the company throughout its history. By focusing on Abadan, Iran, where the largest refinery at… Continue Reading Images Festival – One Image, Two Acts
Images Festival – Passage of the Spiral
Passage of the Spiral is a film by Puerto Rican artist Natalia Lassalle-Morillo. Based in the small town of Santo Domingo Yanhuiltán in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, it is a portrait of a place. The film is rooted in the stories of local youth who are artists and actors working with lauded theatre collective Lagartijas… Continue Reading Images Festival – Passage of the Spiral
Images Festival – nowhere close to halfway
nowhere close to halfway does not offer neat resolutions. Instead, the seven films included in this program dwell in the ongoing attempt, the search, the still-unfulfilled—and, to varying degrees, the necessity of continually reaching for both what might be and what could have been. nowhere close to halfway holds within it a restless yearning that propels… Continue Reading Images Festival – nowhere close to halfway
Images Festival – Long Time Here
Long Time Comin’ Dionne Brand Canada | 1993 | Digital | 52 min | English with English subtitles Faith Nolan and Grace Channer, two African-Canadian lesbian artists, give back to art its most urgent meanings—commitment and passion. Grace Channer’s large and sensuous canvases and musician Faith Nolan’s gritty and joyous blues propel this documentary into the spheres of poetry and dance. Long Time Comin’ captures… Continue Reading Images Festival – Long Time Here
CINSSU presents: Free Friday Film – Crash
CINSSU presents… CRASH (1996) dir. David Cronenberg projected on 35mm film David Cronenberg’s Crash is a chillingly cerebral exploration of eroticism and technology, where car crashes become a perverse language of intimacy. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE THIS FRIDAY AT 7PM!